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490115-HS2024-0-Postbus – Mobile Phone – Gun – Uniform: Objects from the fields of communication, transport and the military as sources for the history of the 20th century between tangible evidence and material culture





Root number 490115
Semester HS2024
Type of course Exercise
Allocation to subject History
Type of exam not defined
Title Postbus – Mobile Phone – Gun – Uniform: Objects from the fields of communication, transport and the military as sources for the history of the 20th century between tangible evidence and material culture
Description Although historians have repeatedly paid attention to historical material testimonies as museological items and as part of material culture, objects receive little attention as a source genre. This is quite paradoxical, because tangible material sources make history "snatch-able" with the hands, and even "seiz(e)-able" with all the senses. However, various aspects need to be considered in this context. These include the origin and genre-specific quality of a material source, its thematic reference and its context of use. To what extent they can be useful for academic research and to impart the knowledge of history in its various forms has to be clarified as well. The relationship of object sources to the ideas of material culture existing in other disciplines and in historical studies also plays an important role.

Based on the holdings of the Museum of Communication and the Historic Military Equipment Foundation (HAM) from the fields of communication,

transportation and the military, this course, designed as an exercise in history after 1800 and as an auxiliary scientific exercise, will deal with the topic described above. After an introductory theoretical and methodological discussion as well as an overview of the history of communication, transportation and the military in Switzerland, students, on the basis of research in collections and archives, will develop their own project on the topic. They will then prepare one or more biographies of objects and present these in the form of a scientific poster.

References:

Thorsten Heese: Vergangenheit „begreifen“: Die gegenständliche Quelle im Geschichtsunterricht, Schwalbach 2007.

Claudia Moritzi / Regula Schmid (Hg.): Die anderen Quellen für die Militärgeschichte der Schweiz, Zurich 2023.

Stefanie Samida, Manfred K. H. Eggert, Hans Peter Hahn (Hg.): Handbuch Materielle Kultur, Stuttgart, Weimar 2014

Jakob Tanner: Geschichte der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert, Munich 2015.

Webseiten: https://www.stiftung-ham.ch https://www.mfk.ch/forschen/museumssammlung/information-1
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Lecturers PD Dr. Daniel Segesser, Institute of History, Modern and Contemporary History ✉
ECTS 5
Recognition as optional course possible Yes
Grading 1 to 6
 
Dates Thursday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
Thursday 24/10/2024 13:15-17:30
 
Rooms Seminarraum F -122, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
 
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