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.
Papiers d’actualité / Current Affairs in Perspective
Romania: Histories of Refugee Reception
New | Nouveau – No 6, July 2022
Dr. Anca Cretu, Research Associate at the European Research Council within the ERC Consolidator Grant project “Unlikely Refuge? Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in 20th century”
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
The Unrecognisable Weightness of Imprudence: Mistaking Miscalculation for Rational Behaviour in War Forecasting
New | Nouveau – No 5, June 2022
PhD Candidate Peter Buda, Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Department of International History and Politics
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.