Welcome
Welcome to the Pierre du Bois Foundation created in 2008, in accordance with the wishes of Pierre du Bois, who outlined its objectives long ago: to stimulate research in current history and to support researchers and students in this field.
The Annual Pierre du Bois Conference 2022
Modern transimperial and interimperial histories : forms, questions, prospects
Event | Événement – 12-14 May 2022
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 took place at the Maison de la Paix from 12-14 May. A Keynote Lecture titled, Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Changing Sightlines on the Japanese Empire was given by Louise Young, the ‘Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’.
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Papiers d’actualité / Current Affairs in Perspective
Zeitenwende: The Week That Shook German Politics
New | Nouveau – No 4, April 2022
Dr. Bernhard Blumenau, Lecturer in International Relations, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews
Papiers d’actualité / Current Affairs in Perspective
Invasion. How Russia Has Lost Ukraine and Itself
New | Nouveau – No 2, February 2022
Dr. Vassily A. Klimentov, SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher / Visiting Fellow | Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence
Pierre du Bois Doctoral Workshop 2022
Histories of Capitalism in Europe and the World
Event | Événement – September 29-30, 2022
The second Annual Pierre du Bois Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Graduate Institute in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation, will take place on 29-30 September 2022. The workshop is titled “Histories of Capitalism in Europe and the World”, and is organized by Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira, Michele Zampa, Oluwaseun Williams, and Amal Shahid.