Public Outreach

Contributions at Conferences and Workshops

Krauer, Philipp, Translating the Java Bogie: Railway Technology Transfer between Switzerland, South and Southeast Asia in the 1920s Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT) annual meeting 2026 in Prague (CZ, September 2026)

Ligtenberg, Monique, roundtable on Narrating marginalized pasts. Public histories of science, technology, and medicine at Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik (GWMT) annual meeting 2026 in Prague (CZ, September 2026)

Krauer Philipp; Theivendran, Sarujan, Training the Postcolonial World: ETH Zurich and the Remaking of Colonial Expertise in the Age of Decolonisation  at workshop Universities and Society at the End of Empire and Beyond (UniSoc) at University of Birmingham (UK, June 2026).

Krauer, Philipp, Beyond the Rails: The Transimperial Journey of the ‘Java Bogie’ in the 1920s at Workshop Empire and (Im-)Mobility in South and South-East Asia (19th and 20th Centuries)’, organised by gd:c Munich and held in New Delhi (IND, Feb 2026).

Ligtenberg, Monique, Commodifying the Amazon: A German Painter, a Swiss Industrialist, and the Transimperial Butterfly Trade (1890– 1920) at Conference Slavery, Resistance and Democracy : Exploring Swiss-Brazilian connections in the 19th century Atlantic world at Université de Lausanne (CH, Nov 2025).

Contributions at Colloquia

Theivendran Sarujan, Müller Ella, Colonial Science and its Legacies at Research Seminar of Weather and Climate Risk Group (ETH Zürich) (September 2026)

Ligtenberg, Monique, Koloniale Spuren in den ETH Sammlungen: Schweizerische
Naturforschung zwischen Zürich und
Somaliland (ca. 1890–1900)’ at the Research Seminar (University of Berne) ‘After Restitution. Museum as Archives for New African Histories’.

Teaching

Autumn Term 2026: From Benin to Bührle: Provenance Research in Switzerland and Shared Cultures of Remembrance. (Monique Ligtenberg, Charlotte Hoes)

Spring Term 2026 Seminar: Engineering Empires: Technology, Environment, and Power in the Age of Colonialism (Philipp Krauer).

Autumn Term 2025 Seminar: Colonial Past, Entangled Present: Natural History Collections in Context (Monique Ligtenberg, Ella Müller)

Public History

Sarujan as Guest at Paneldiscussion about ‘Humain Remains, Restiution and Colonial Knowledge’ after the Documentary film ‘Elephants & Squirrels’ at Riffraff Cinema Zürich, 15.03.2026.

Presentation of Monique at the Weltkulturenmuseum Frankfurt am Main (DE): Bernhard Hagen (1853–1919): Vom Tropenmediziner zum Rassenforscher – Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte zwischen Sumatra, Neuguinea und Frankfurt, 2.2.2026.

Exhibition ‘Colonial Traces – Collections in Context’ in extract (ETH Zurich) curated by Monique (31.8.2024 – 13.07.2025).

Articles in Newspapers

Monique about the founder of the Weltkulturenmuseum Bernhard Hagen in: Frankfurter Allgemeine , ‘Man bekommt viel von der Brutalität mit’, 17.2.2026

Philipp Kauer about Mercenaries from Schwyz against the Ottomans in: March Anzeiger, ‘Schwyzer Söldner im “Heiligen Krieg” gegen die Osmanen, 22.4.2026.