Expulsion, migration, and changing Networks. Mathematics during the NS-Period in Germany and Switzerland

Based on our dataset we will digitally trace in some detail the direct results of the declaration of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service on the mathematicians at Göttingen University and focus on the changing academic reputation of the Göttingen Institute for mathematics. In the second part, focusing on Switzerland and based on two examples, we will show how digital approaches can be used to illustrate the interdependencies of Swiss universities and/or professors working at Swiss universities within the transnational network of science to clarify to what extent these digital approaches can also stimulate questions about Swiss appointment policy(s).

The biographical perspective on the impact of the forced migration in the 1930s and 1940s on individual careers is one of three main objectives of our research project.  We are equally interested in the way the transnational academic network and the academic landscape as such changed due to the expulsion of academics.

Full research results will be presented in the open access conference-volume of the 2021 conference “#DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age” (expected beginning of January 2022).

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Presentation of our digital resereach methods at the conferenced "#DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age" organized by the C2DH - Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History  

Presentation by Stefanie Mahrer, Sinja Clavadetscher, and Stefanie Salvisberg
Tuesday, 11/01/2021 at 1p.m.[....]

We are planning our first international conference with the topic Adaption - Autonomy - Continuity: Academia in Times of Crises (20th century) and are inviting scholars to send their proposals.
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