University of Heidelberg

Contact information

Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 221
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

Email:

herren@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Phone:

+49 (0) 6221 54 4098

Fax:

+49 (0) 6221 54 4012

About Madeleine Herren-Oesch

Fields of interest:

European and global history of the 19th and 20th century
History of international organisations, the League of Nations and the United Nations
Internationalism and foreign policy networks, soft power and public diplomacy
History of transnational networks and border-crossing civil society activities
Research on encyclopaedia, information transfer and information cultures
Historiography and  methodology of History
Digital humanities

Projects

• A3 Networking
• A10 Lives Beyond Borders
• C6 Transnational Networks
• C13 Environmental Activism
• D5 Encyclopaedias
• D10 Environmental Activism (restructured as C13)
• D11 Hidden Grammars
• HRA15 Encyclopedia Database

Curriculum vitae

since 2007: Director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context – Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows”

2007–2008: Director of the Centre for European History and Culture

2006: Vice-director of the Centre for European History and Culture

since 2004: Full Professor of Modern History, University of Heidelberg

2003: University Teaching Position at the Department of History, University of Bern

2002–2003: University Teaching Position at the Department of History, University of Luzern

2001: University Teaching Position at the Department of History, University of Basel

1999–2004: Full Associate Professor for Modern History at the University of Zurich

1998: Associate Professor for Modern History at the University of Zurich

1996–1997: University Teaching Position Department of History, University of Bern

1993–1996: Postdoctoral Thesis: Research Project Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation

1990–1993: Senior Assistant at the Department of History, University of Bern

1989: Doctorate, Thesis on “Internationale Sozialpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg aus der Perspektive der Dritten Französischen Republik”

1985–1990: Assistant of Prof. Dr. Judit Garamvölgyi at the Department of History, University of Bern

1985: Licentiate in Modern History, History of Switzerland, German Literature, Diploma Secondary Teacher (Gymnasiallehrerin)

1976–1985: Studies of Modern History and German Literature at the University of Bern, Teacher Training  

Selected publications

Monographs

with Martin Rüesch, Christiane Sibille, Transcultural History. Theories, Methods, Sources, Heidelberg (forthcoming 2011).

Internationale Organisationen seit 1865. Eine Globalgeschichte der internationalen Ordnung, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2009.

with Sacha Zala, Netzwerk Aussenpolitik. Internationale Organisationen und Kongresse als Instrumente der schweizerischen Aussenpolitik 1914–1950, Zürich: Chronos 2002.

Hintertüren zur Macht. Internationalismus und modernisierungsorientierte Außenpolitik in Belgien, der Schweiz und den USA, Habilitationsschrift angenommen von der Philosophisch-historischen Fakultät der Universität Bern, München: Oldenbourg 2000 (Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte, 9).

Edited Volumes

Networks in Times of Transition. Toward a Transcultural History of International Organisations, URL: www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/a-governance-administration/a3/conference-networks-in-times-of-transition.html (forthcoming 2011).

with Ines Prodöhl, Isabella Löhr (eds.), Lives Beyond Borders. Toward a Social History of Cosmopolitans and Globalization, 1880-1960, URL: www.ghi-dc.org/index.php (forthcoming 2011).

Articles

Global Corporatism after World War I – the Indian Case, in: Sandrine Kott et al. (eds.), The International Labour Organization and Beyond: Reformist Networks and Transnational Social Policies in the 20th Century (forthcoming).

Globalization of Death – Foreign Cemeteries in a Transnational Perspective, in: Frank Grüner (ed.), Global Challenge and Regional Response. Early 20th Northeast China: Its Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Encounters with the World (forthcoming 2011).

Shifting Identities and Cosmopolitan Machineries: a New World Imagined at the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris in: Christiane Brosius, Roland Wenzlhuemer (eds.), Transcultural Swirls, Flows of Images and Media (forthcoming 2011).

Rekonstruktion von Verlusten. Zur Geschichte internationaler Organisationen vor 1945, in: Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv, Dossier 14 (im Erscheinen).

Transkulturalität, in: traverse, Spezialheft Kulturgeschichte 01/2011.

with Michael Hässig, Claudio Paganini, Barbara Simmen-Fritschy, Cornelia Knab, Perzeption von Zoonosen in der Veterinärmedizin und Gesellschaft, in: Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde 152/8 (2010), p. 355-362.

with Cornelia Knab, Die Zweite Haager Friedenskonferenz und die Liberalisierung des politischen Informationsmarktes, in: Die Friedens-Warte. Journal of International Peace and Organization 82 (2007), p. 51-64.

History, Historiography, and Information, in: Daniel Burckhardt, Rüdiger Hohls, Claudia Prinz (Hg.), Geschichte im Netz: Praxis, Chancen, Visionen. Beiträge der Tagung .hist 2006, Berlin 2007, p. 435-445, URL: edoc.huberlin.de/histfor/10_II/PHP/ELearning_2007_10_II.php.

“Sozialpolitik und die Historisierung des Transnationalen”, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 32/4 (2006), 542–559.

“Inszenierung des globalen Subjekts. Vorschläge zur Typologie einer transgressiven Biographie”, in: Historische Anthropologie 13/3 (2005), 1–18.

Further information

see the complete publications list here

Profile at the Department of History, Centre of European History and Culture, Heidelberg University