Julia Richers

Julia Richers (* 1975 in Basel ) is a Swiss historian . Her main focus in teaching and research is the history and culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe as well as the cultural history of cosmos and space fever in Eastern Europe.

Life

Julia Richers studied Eastern European History and English in Budapest and Basel . In 2001 she finished her studies with a master's thesis The Pest Israelite Women's Association 1866-1914. A contribution to Jewish women's and gender history from a cultural studies perspective . From 2001 to 2010 she was a research assistant at the chair for Eastern European and Modern General History in Basel with Heiko Haumann .

In 2005 she received her doctorate . For her doctoral thesis Jewish Budapest. Cultural topographies of a municipality in the 19th century , which “not only closes a large research gap”, but “also opens up new perspectives for the history of the city”, she received the 2006 Dies Academicus Prize of the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Basel. In 2013 Julia Richers completed her habilitation project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation , on the subject of cosmos and space travel fever in the Soviet Union between the cult of technology and social utopias and received the Venia legendi .

In January 2013 she organized and led the international conference Pop-Up Culture together with Carmen Scheide and others . Popular and Mass Culture in Late Soviet Society at the University of Basel.

In February 2013 Julia Richers took up the lectureship for the history of Eastern Europe at the University of Bern . Among other things, she coordinates the study program for Eastern European Studies in Bern-Friborg. She is also a research assistant in the “Cosmos and Space Fever” project at the University of Basel.

Since 2015 she has been a full professor of Modern General and Eastern European History at the University of Bern.

Fonts (selection)

• with Heiko Haumann , Erik Petry (Ed.): Places of Remembrance. People and scenes in the Basel border region 1933–1945, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-85616-364-8 .
• Jewish Budapest. Cultural topographies of a municipality in the 19th century, (= life worlds of Eastern European Jews , vol. 12), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20471-6 .
• with Eva Maurer, Monica Rüthers , Carmen Scheide (eds.): Soviet Space Culture. Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies, Palgrave, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-27435-8
• Space. The Soviet Union in orbit, in: Martin Aust (ed.): Globalization imperial and socialist. Russia and the Soviet Union in Global History 1851–1991, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39850-1 , pp. 400–424.

Web links

• Julia Richers on the website of the Historical Institute of the University of Bern
• Publications by and about Julia Richers in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Julia Richers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Julia Richers: Soviet pioneer flight into space. Manned with a woman , NZZ June 15, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dies Academicus 2006 , Prize of the Philosophical-Historical Faculty, University of Basel ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Swissuniversity.ch ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Review by Martina Niedhammer in: Year books for the history of Eastern Europe. jgo.e-reviews ; Review by Hanna Kozińska-Witt in: Slavic Review 71, 2012, pp. 438-439 ; Review by Ferenc Laczó in: Shofar Book Reviews ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
4. ↑ Review by Alexander CT Geppert, in: Clio-online 3/2013 .