2016-2017: The Geneva History Seminar
This research seminar is organized by and for historians in the faculties and doctoral programs of the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. It is open to all who are interested in historical questions in a global perspective. The papers that form the basis of a speaker's presentation will be available a week in advance of his or her talk and can be downloaded from any of the websites below.
Organisation/contact: Pilar Nogues-Marco (IPB/UNIGE), Ludovic Tournes (DHG/UNIGE), Amalia Ribi (IHEID)
This seminar will take place on:
Tuesday or Thursdays as indicated. Please note that the locations of the talks vary.
Tuesday, 4 Oct., 2016 4.15 pm
Carolyn Biltoft (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
International Organizations as Heterotopia: Global Modernity and the League of Nations Archives
IHEID, Maison de la Paix, Eugène Rigot 2, room S6
Thursday 3 Nov., 2016 5.15 pm
Kim Oosterlinck (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Book launch: Hope Springs Eternal. French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian is Sovereign Debt
UNIMAIL, Bd du Pont d'Arve 40, room M5020
Thursday, 1 Dec., 2016 6.15 pm
Damiano Matasci (Unige)
Protéger l'Empire du "vent de New York". La France, l'Unesco et le développement de l'éducation en Afrique subsaharienne (1945-1960)
UNI BASTIONS (AILE JURA), 5 rue de Candolle, room A206 (et non plus à Saint-Ours)
Thursday 23 March 2017 6.15 pm
Anaïs Fléchet (Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
Les festivals de musique: une histoire transnationale
Département d'histoire générale, 5 Rue Saint-Ours, SO019
Tuesday 4 April 2017 4.15 pm
Olivier Wieviorka (ENS Paris-Saclay)
Faire l'histoire de la résistance en Europe de l'Ouest: nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles approches
IHEID, Maison de la Paix, Eugène Rigot 2, room S6
Thursday 27 April 2017 4.15 pm
Joel Felix (University of Reading)
Long-term comparison of the evolution of revenue and expenditure in Europe between 1688 and 1788: collecting, analysing, comparing and interpreting fiscal data
UNIMAIL, Bd du Pont d'Arve 40, room M3220
26 sept. 2016