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 promote and support research on current history and to provide students and researchers with access to relevant books, scholarly journals and other documents necessary for their research.
New | Nouveau – No 10, November 2021
Thomas Gidney, PhD, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
Event | Événement – October 22, 2021
The first Annual Pierre du Bois Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Graduate Institute in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation, took place on 22 October 2021. The workshop, titled “Modernizing Landscapes: New Histories of Development and the Environment between Europe and the World”, was organized by Mona Bieling, Ahmad Fahoum, Simon Lobach, and Michele Sollai.
Award | Prix – September 2021
The Annual Pierre du Bois Prize was awarded to Dr Geoffroy Legentilhomme on the 17 of September 2021 for his thesis entitled, “Mutualisme, concurrence et science actuarielle: Contributions à l’historiographie du système suisse d’assurance-maladie (1865-1970)”. The thesis was defended at the Graduate Institute, Geneva.
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, took place at the Maison de la Paix from 26-27 August. A Keynote Lecture titled, Being in Time: The Experience of Nationhood was given by Bernard Yack, the ‘Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy’ at Brandeis University.
