SwissBritNet (since 2023)
About the project
The project SwissBritNet: Swiss-British cultural exchange and knowledge networks 1600-1780 (SNFS no. 215254, 2023-2027) explores Swiss-British relations in the 17th and early 18th centuries and thus provides a more comprehensive understanding of early modern networks of knowledge and cultural exchange.
The project focuses on documents such as letters, friendship albums, travelogues and theological writings, which enable an insight into transnational interconnections, especially in key areas of Swiss-British relations such as theology in the 17th century and the natural sciences and literature in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on these documents, case studies will be developed on particularly networked individuals (exemplified by Johann Jacob Frey in the early 17th century and Caspar Wettstein in the 18th century) and genres central to cultural exchange such as travel and devotional literature.
The data will be prepared and published on République des Lettres. They are organised in a way that ensures they are usable for further research and may be supplemented with new materials at any time.
For further information, visit the project website .
Team
Investigators:
- Ina Habermann (Principal Investigator)
- Lukas Rosenthaler (Co-Principal Investigator)
Team:
- Regula Hohl Trillini (Senior Researcher)
- Philippe Bernhard Schmid (Postdoc)
- Alessandro Lattanzi (Researcher)
- Stefanie Heeg (PhD Candidate)
- Luiza Citaku (Student Assistant)
- Manuel Sutter (Researcher, Webmaster)
- Vijeinath Tissaveerasingham (Webmaster)
- Peter Dängeli (Researcher, hallerNet)
- Christian Forney (Researcher, hallerNet)
- Lukas Heinzmann (Researcher, hallerNet)
- Claudia Pfister (Researcher, hallerNet)
- Martin Stuber (Senior Researcher, hallerNet)
- Markus Bardenheuer (Researcher, 2023-2024)