Desanka Schwara

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Desanka Schwara (born February 27, 1959 in Kranj ) is a Swiss historian of Slovenian origin.

Life

Desanka Schwara attended the cantonal commercial school in Basel from 1975–1979 and from 1981–1985 extra-occupational Matura courses for employed people. 1986–1992 she studied history, Russian and English in Basel. In 1998 she completed her doctorate in history at the University of Basel , where she also completed her habilitation in 2006 . From 1997–2000 she worked as a research assistant at the Simon Dubnow Institute at the University of Leipzig, and from 2000–2003 she was project manager of the SNSF research project “On the move: Jewish travelers and the experience of home and foreigners in modern times” at the University of Basel. In 2002 she taught as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA. From 2005–2010 she worked as an SNSF professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern on the project “Europe without borders: Diaspora groups as transcultural and cross-regional connecting elements 1492–1918”. Since completing her doctorate, she has held various teaching positions at the Universities of Basel, where she has held the venia docendi since 2006, Bern, Zurich, Leipzig and Ljubljana, and since 2019 with the cultural studies at the University of Basel. From 2007–2009 she was a member of the rain committee of the University of Basel. In 2012 she was nominated as a possible Fellow by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Blacka's research focuses on transnational history, the comparative history of Europe, intercultural communication and Jewish culture. She is primarily interested in the interrelationship between the individual and the cultural-political context.

Fonts

  • Humor and tolerance. East Jewish anecdotes as a historical source , Cologne 1996 (2nd edition 2001)
  • "Ojfn weg schtejt a bojm". Jewish childhood and youth in Galicia, Congress Poland, Lithuania and Russia 1881–1939, Cologne 1999 (dissertation)
  • On road. Travel experience between home and foreign in modern times , Göttingen 2007 (habilitation thesis)
  • Merchants, sailors and pirates in the Mediterranean basin of modern times. Unbounding Diaspora - Unifying Imaginations , Munich 2011 (monograph on comparative local studies, result of the SNSF professorship at the University of Bern, edited with the collaboration of Luise Müller and Patrick Krebs, the authors are Desanka Schwara, Luise Müller, Patrick Krebs, Ivo Haag and Marcel Gosteli)
  • The Triumph of Nazi Cinema: 1933–2013 , Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2014 ( conference report )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Journal of History: Miszellen / Mélanges 57, 2007, No. 2, p. 188.
personal data
SURNAME Schwara, Desanka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Kranj