Research
Prof. Estelle SOHIER (UNIGE)
Research interests: history of photography, cultural geography.
Role within the project: research on visual devices, in particular stereoscopic photographs, enabling a virtual round-the-world tour.
Contact:
Dr Julien BEAL (UNIGE/Lab. CTEL EA 6307)
Research interests: Comparative literature (Japan).
Position within the project: Research on Japanese globetrotters.
Contact:
Dr. Eugénie PEREIRA COUTTOLENC
Research interests: language science, discourse analysis, tourism, digital corpora and gender studies.
Role within the project: study of blogs published on the Internet by current globetrotters.
Laura SAYSANAVONGPHET (UNIGE), PhD. student
Research interests: contemporary history, cultural geography, comparative literature, South-East Asia.
Role within the project: PhD on the first globetrotters' travelogues (1869-1914), under the joint supervision of Prof. Odile Gannier and Prof. Jean-François Staszak.
Contact:
William FAVRE
Research interests : Japanese history, cultural heritage, and museology.
Role within the project : participation in research on Swiss world tours, particularly the globetrotter Gustave Revilliod; participation in the catalog for the exhibition on world tours at the Swiss National Museum.