Documenting the Work of the UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria
In the frame of a partnership between the Kofi Annan Foundation and the Graduate Institute, Professor Davide Rodogno and PhD candidate Felix Ohnmacht documented and analyzed the mediation and negotiation efforts of Kofi Annan, who was appointed UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria in February 2012. A reflection on their experience of conducting this research project and the role of historians has now been published on our website.
[10.5.2013]
Public lecture by Prof. Pinto
Professor Julio Pinto Vallejos, Pierre du Bois Visiting Professor in Contemporary Latin American History, held a public lecture on the topic of "The Other 9/11: Forty Years After the Pinochet Coup in Chile" on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.
[2.5.2013]
An International History of Terrorism
[12.4.2013]
Publications by professor Austin
[12.4.2013]/[26.4.2013]
Call for Papers for Workshop on Minorities in the Middle East
A call for papers has been issued for the workshop "The fragments imagine the nation? Minorities in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East". It is co-organized by professor Jordi Tejel and will take place at the Graduate Institute from November 8-9, 2013. The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2013.
[19.3.2013]
New Student Testimonials
In two new video testimonials, PhD students Jaci Eisenberg and Jayita Sarkar talk about their research and explain the advantages of studying at the Department of International History. You can now look at the videos here and here.
[6.2.2013]
HCRI conference participants' report
From 8 November to 10 November 2012, scholars and practitioners gathered in Manchester for a major conference organized by the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), a University of Manchester Research Institute. Three young members of our department participated in this conference and they wrote a report about their participation.
[10.1.2013]
Publication by Professor Hanhimäki
Professor Jussi Hanhimäki's new book was published in November: "The Rise and Fall of Détente. American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War"
[21.12.2012]
Publication by Professor Roquinaldo Ferreira
Visiting professor Roquinaldo Ferreira has published a book on "Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade".
[13.12.2012]
Awards
PhD Candidate Jaci Eisenberg has received the 2012 APSUN award for an essay on "The status of women: a bridge from the League of Nations to the United Nations". Congratulations!
[03.12.2012]
Publication by Seamus Taggart
Recent PhD Seamus Taggart co-authored a book which has now been published: "Italy: Garibaldi’s Mistake? The Trials and Tribulations of a State Yet to be Refounded and a People Finally Made, 1861-2011 and Beyond"
[15.11.2012]
The inaugural meeting of the Geneva History Seminar
The inaugural meeting of the Geneva History Seminar, organised jointly by the University of Geneva's Département d'histoire générale, the Institut Paul Bairoch, and our own department, will take place on Thursday, 11 October from 18:15-19:45 (5 rue Saint Ours, room SO13). Professor Sandrine Kott (UNIGE) will speak about "L’OIT et la globalisation des questions du travail (1947-1973). Une perspective post guerre froide." MA students are welcome to attend.
[24.10.2012]
Interviews and publications by Professor Tejel
[10.10.2012 / 24.10.2012 / 7.11.2012 / 15.11.2012 / 21.11.2012 / 23.1.2013]
New FNS research project: "International Terrorism, the West, and the Cold War, 1970-1992"
- The International History department will host a new research project on "International Terrorism, the West, and the Cold War, 1970-1992". Professor Jussi Hanhimäki will direct the project for which he received funding for a period of three years from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He will be assisted by Bernhard Blumenau (as a researcher and research coordinator) as well as by a PhD student as research assistant. The project will look at how the Cold War influenced international terrorism, how countries funded and supported terrorist groups to instrumentalize them for their Cold War struggles, and how Western European governments responded to this challenge.
- The research project "International Terrorism, the West, and the Cold War, 1970-1992" now has its own page on the IHEID's website.
[24.10.2012 / 13.12.2012]
African economic history workshop report
A special edition of the annual international workshop on African economic history workshop was held at the Institute on 10-12 September 2012. Read the conference summary report.
[10.10.2012]
A glimpse of faculty activities during the summer
Though summer means no classes, our faculty is hard at work!
- Professor Annabelle Littoz-Monnet recently published "Agenda-Setting Dynamics at the EU Level: The Case of the EU Cultural Policy" in the Journal of European Integration;
- "Ambizione" fellow Aurelie Gfeller has had a banner summer for publications! Her article, "Reinventing the European Parliamentary Assembly: Simone Veil and the First Directly Elected Members of Parliament," was published in Cultures & Conflits, and her first book, "Building a European Identity: France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74," was published by Berghahn Books. Congratulations!
- Professor Gareth Austin just came back from the World Economic History Congress, which was held for the first time in Africa, at Stellenbosch in South Africa, from 9 to 13 July, with 800 participants. He presented 3 papers, was discussant on 12 papers and 1 book, chaired 2 sessions, and participated in the closing debate on “The Dynamics of African Development”, with Professor James A. Robinson of Harvard University.
- Professor Marc Flandreau, along with Juan Flores of the University of Geneva, won the prestigious Internaitonal Geneva Award 2012 for the article "The Peaceful Conspiracy: Bond Markets and International Relations during the Pax Britannica," published in International Organization in Spring 2012!
Congratulations!
[4.7.2012]
Roy Anderson Foulke Jr. Graduate Scholarship awarded to PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate and Department Teaching Assistant Trevin Stratton has been awarded the AIER Summer Fellowship Programme Session One Roy Anderson Foulke, Jr. Graduate Scholarship, granted on behalf of The Foulke Foundation Trust of Mamaroneck, New York. Congratulations!
[26.6.2012]
Alum publication
International History alumna Seunghoon Emilia Heo's doctoral dissertation, Reconciling Enemy States in Europe and Asia, was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their Graduate Institute publications series.
[16.5.2012]
eCahiers de l'Institut
PhD candidate Hassan Thuillard's award-winning MA thesis, La naissance du territoire de l’Irak: A l’origine d’un Etat-frontière, is the most recent volume in HEID's eCahiers series
[8.5.2012]
The European Citizen’s Initiative: ’Much Ado About Nothing’?
PhD student Felix Ohnmacht reflects on the above topic for the Pierre du Bois Foundation's Current Affairs in Perspective Series
[26.4.2012]
New Working Paper in International History
MIA Candidate Ashley Tedham has written an intriguing piece on Charitable Giving, Fundraising, and Faith-Based Organizations: Islamic Relief World Wide and World Vision International - A Comparison [pdf]
[15.2.2012]
Welcome to Visiting Professor Ricardo Salvatore!
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The Department of International History is pleased to welcome Professor Ricardo Salvatore for the spring semester. Professor Salvatore, who comes to us under the auspices of the Pierre du Bois Visiting Professorship, will be teaching the course "The Economic History of Latin America." Professor Salvatore received his PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, and comes to us now from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, where he is Plenary Professor of the History Department. Please see his complete profile here. |
[11.1.2012]
New webpages exploring themes and regions covered by our courses, faculty and students
Please visit our new webpages describing in detail our approach to certain areas of study.
[19.12.2011]
Visiting Professor receives Cundhill Prize
Sergio Luzzatto, a Visiting Professor in the Department of International History, has been awarded the 2011 Cundhill Prize in History for his book Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age. Congratulations!
[13.12.2011]
Academic Platform Switzerland-UN - 2011 Award!
PhD Candidate Bernhard Blumenau received, on Thursday 1 December, the 2011 Academic Platform Switzerland-UN prize for his paper entitled "Coping with the Scourge of Mankind: The UN and Terrorism in the 1970s." CONGRATULATIONS!
Photo on our blog
[2.12.2011]
From our blog
International History fondue at the Brasserie des Halles de l'Ile, 9 November 2011
[11.11.2011]
New Working Paper in International History
PhD Candidate Bernhard Blumenau recently published the article The Map of Africa Lies in Germany: The Two Germanys and their Struggles for Recognition in Africa [pdf]
[2.11.2011]
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Seminar in International History
Venez nombreux to Alessandro Stanziani's talk on Imperial connections: labour, rights and bondage, in Europe, the Mascarene Islands and French Congo, 1840s-1914 this Thursday, 3 November, in CV 201 at 12h15!
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[31.10.2011]
New Working Paper in International History
Professor Annabelle Littoz-Monnet recently published the article The EU Politics of Remembrance [pdf]
[21.10.2011]
Department alum wins two prizes - UPDATED
Dominic Eggel has been awarded the Prix Lastis and the Prix Pierre du Bois for his PhD entitled "The Idea of Europe in Classic Weimar: The Case of Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland"
More information at the Foundation Pierre du Bois website and at the Institute's main page
[16.9.2011 / 19.10.2011]
Working Papers in International History
Guidelines for French authors now available on the Working Papers page
[6.10.2011]
From our blog
Department cocktail, 4 October 2011
[5.10.2011]
MA programme
Information in English and French [pdf] for students seeking entry to the MA programme in autumn 2012
[4.10.2011]
From our blog
Blogging the Terrorism and International Politics Conference - Day 1
[29.9.2011]
Department alum wins two prizes
Dominic Eggel has been awarded the Prix Lastis and the Prix Pierre du Bois for his PhD entitled "The Idea of Europe in Classic Weimar: The Case of Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland"
More information at the Foundation Pierre du Bois website
[16.9.2011]
New Working Paper in International History
Professor G. Balachandran recently published the article Subaltern Cosmopolitanism in the Imperial Metropole: Notes towards a Prehistory of Racism and Multiculturalism? [pdf]
[13.9.2011]
From our blog
Women's History Network 20th Anniversary Conference
[12.9.2011]
