Unité d'histoire contemporaine

The Geneva History Seminar 2019-2020

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 the website below.
https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/IHEPB/recherche/seminaires/geneva-seminar/


Department of International History, IHEID             
Organisation/contact: Michael Goebel

Département d'histoire générale, UNIGE
Organisation/contact: Autumn: Matthias Schulz / Spring: Sandrine Kott

Institut d'histoire économique Paul Bairoch, UNIGE               
Organisation/contact: Pilar Nogues-Marco


 

Tuesday             
17 Sep., 2019
16h15-17h45 
 ELIZABETH FOSTER (Tufts University)
African Catholic. Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church
@ IHEID, Maison de la Paix, Auditorium A2 
   
Tuesday
26 Nov., 2019
18h15-19h45
CATHERINE MAURER (Université de Strasbourg)
Catholicisme et action humanitaire du milieu du XIXe siècle à 1945 : les catholiques allemands, pionniers de l‘aide internationale ?
@Département d’histoire générale, Uni-Bastions, Rue de-Candolle 5, room B111
   
Thursday
12 Dec., 2019
18h15-19h45
MARINE DHERMY-MAIRAL (Université de Genève)
1939: économistes et statisticiens au chevet des organisations internationales
@ UNIMAIL, Bd du Pont d’Arve 40, room M5020
   
Thursday
05 Mar., 2020
18h15-19h45
KAREN GRAM-SKJOLDAGER (Aarhus University)
‘The League of Nations Secretariat: New Approaches to International Public Administration’
@ UNIMAIL, Bd du Pont d’Arve 40, room M3220
   
Wednesday
08 Apr., 2020
18h15-19h45
DAMIANO MATASCI (Université de Genève)
Internationaliser les savoirs, moderniser le colonialisme : Edgar Barton Worthington et le Conseil scientifique pour l’Afrique (1945-1965)
@ Département d’histoire générale, Rue Saint-Ours 5, salle S019
   
Thursday
07 May, 2020
18h15-19h45 
SEBASTIAN CONRAD (Freie Universität Berlin)
Globalizing the Beautiful Body: Eugen Sandow, Bodybuilding, and the Ideal of Muscular Manliness at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
@ IHEID, Maison de la Paix, Auditorium A2



 

 

4 septembre 2019
  Séminaires