Research Navigator organized a two-day workshop from 29 to 30 May, 2017, which took place at the Institute for European Global Studies (the University of Basel, Switzerland). Researchers from both the University of Heidelberg and Basel further explored the possibility to collaborate in the field of Historical Geographic Information Systems. Current research projects in the […]

This project investigates Swiss diplomacy in a global perspective with a focus on the period from 1848 to 1975. It aims to contribute in a substantial way to a better understanding of the historical development of international relations from the diplomacy of great powers in the nineteenth century to today’s complex structures of global governance. […]

This rapid prototype project showcases the enormous potential of Digital Humanities collaborations. It brings together scholars and researchers from Basel, Heidelberg and Tokyo Universities supported by Data Futures and the Heidelberg Research Architecture. At the center of the project is a digital representation of “Yokohama ichiran no shinkei”, a panoramic view of Yokohama created by […]

In December 2015, the Institute for European Global Studies awarded two fellowships in the field of Digital Humanities to Prof. Peter Cornwell (University of Westminster) and Eric Decker (University of Heidelberg). With the fellowships, the Institute for European Global Studies wants to further expand its strong international network and, in cooperation with the Department of […]

This pilot project assesses so-called Directories, which provide information on economic relations in Asia since the mid of the 19th century. Besides details on the registry for companies and individuals, the Directories provided contemporary global readers with broadly diversified information related to respective relevant Asian regions important for foreign trade. The case of Asia exemplifies […]

On 16.12.2016, experts from Basel DH-Lab and the Heidelberg Research Architecture, University of Heidelberg, met at the Institute for European Global Studies. In the centre of the one-day meeting was the development of infrastructure in the digital humanities, which was presented and discussed. The meeting was organised as a collaboration in the context of the […]

In the context of Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren-Oesch’s lecture on “Global Moments: Fin de siècle and Orientalism in 1900”, the Institute for European Global Studies organized a one-day workshop on data extraction on 27.10.2016. In the process, workshop participants for the first time actively used the method of extracting and generating table of contents, a […]