Seminar held by Madeleine Herren (Basel).
In May 1928 the crash of an Italian airship over the North Pole prompted international rescue operations and a media hype around the globe. The lecture will argue that this accident signalled an epistemic shift in the understanding of globality. From the 1920s the Arctic was transformed from an ‘empty space’ into a new imaginary of connectedness, visible today in the emblem of the UN.
Madeleine Herren is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. She has published widely on European and global history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, internationalism, and the history of international organizations. Her books include Internationale Organisationen seit 1865: Eine Globalgeschichte der internationalen Ordnung (2009) and Transcultural History: Theories, Methods, Sources (co-authored, 2012).
Seminars are held at 5.30 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the German Historical Institute.
Tea is served from 5.00 p.m. in the Common Room, and wine is available after the seminars.
Guided tours of the Library are available before each seminar at 4.30 p.m.