Welcome to the Pierre du Bois Foundation for Current History (Fondation Pierre du Bois pour l’histoire du temps présent) created in 2008, in accordance with the wishes of Pierre du Bois, who outlined its objectives long ago. The mission of the Pierre du Bois Foundation is to stimulate research in current history and to support researchers and students in this field.
New | Nouveau – No 6, July 2021
Dr Vassily A. Klimentov, European University Institute, Florence
Report | Rapport
The Pierre du Bois Foundation’s Activity Report 2019-2020 is available. Should you wish a paper copy of the Report, please send an email to info@fondation-pierredubois.ch .
Event | Événement – 26-27 August 2021
The Annual Pierre du Bois Conference, organized by the Graduate Institute in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation and with support from the Swiss National Science Foundation, will take place at the Maison de la Paix from 26-27 August (The conference which was scheduled to take place in October 2020, was postponed due to Covid 19). A Keynote Lecture titled, Being in Time: The Experience of Nationhood. will be given by Bernard Yack, the ‘Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy’ at Brandeis University.
Lecture |Conférence – 12 April 2021
The lecture was given by Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. The lecture argued that, W. E. B Du Bois, whose international writings span the decades when an image of the international world came to be dominant, productively illuminates its blind spots and offers conceptual resources to move beyond its limits. The lecture was part of a series of public lectures addressing Europe’s role in the nineteenth-and twentieth-century world organized by Pierre du Bois Chair Michael Goebel.
