Alexander Balistreri
«Borders and bordering continue to shape today’s societies. Studying the interplay of actors in western Eurasia’s borderlands enables us to deconstruct statist narratives of bordering and deflate claims of fixed historical identities.»
Manfred Max Bergman
Susanna Burghartz
«A historical perspective which takes into account the local, the European, and the global offers vital and exciting insights into our present.»
Lucas Burkart
«Global history shifts perspective for the study of all historical periods and enriches their understanding.»
Kenny Cupers
«If Europe is to reimagine its future in today's global environment, it is more urgent than ever for Europe to rethink its past from such a global perspective.»
Ina Dietzsch
Madeleine Herren-Oesch
«Social Sciences and Humanities are crucial for analyzing the impact of an increasingly interconnected world on the way societies cope with their own diversity.»
Rita Kesselring
«The entanglement of Switzerland – or Europe – with the “rest of the world” is more than a conceptual hype. It is a practice with real and often unequally distributed consequences for real people. Anthropology tries to make this point obvious.»
Sarah Khayati
«European history is not exclusively European. To appreciate this, it is essential to conduct historical research in the social sciences that considers the interconnectedness of the local and the global.»
Martin Lengwiler
«Global History is an exciting field as it offers new perspectives on Europe and allows to reinvigorate a discipline - European History - that has become rusty over the years.»
Elísio Macamo
«I look through the cracks of a world that never was for ways of understanding how to make it real.»
Maurus Reinkowski
«Middle Eastern Studies are situated between Humanities and Social Sciences and are striving to make important contributions to a growing international academic community of ‘global area studies specialists’.»
Frithjof Benjamin Schenk
«The history of Eastern Europe offers ideal opportunities to overcome national historical narratives and to better understand Europe's entanglements with other world regions.»
Pascal Schmid
«To understand any society’s place in the world, we need to look at its external relations from different perspectives – and therefore collaborate with partners in different parts of the world.»
Claudia Seitz
«The rapid technological progress in the life sciences requires national, European and international regulatory responses to address new challenges for the life sciences and the law.»
Silvana Tarlea
Julia Tischler
«Is there anything genuinely and purely European about Europe? Studying African History can help us (among many other things) to radically shift perspective and appreciate the ways in which Europe was also made by Africa.»
Christa Tobler
«Legal systems are increasingly interrelated. In the field of European legal studies, it is no longer enough to focus on Europe alone. Instead, a broader approach adds value and understanding.»
Ralph Weber
«Global Studies that lack regional knowledge are bound to be ironically parochial. European Studies, African Studies or Asian Studies without a global scope are presumptuous. This is the paradox we need to confront and disentangle.»
Rolf Weder
«Die Lehr- und Forschungstätigkeiten an der Professur Aussenwirtschaft und Europäische Integration konzentrieren sich auf die Auswirkungen der zunehmenden Integration von Güter-, Dienstleistungs- sowie Faktormärkten auf globaler und regionaler Ebene.»