The Geneva History Seminar series is a joint initiative of the University of Geneva Department of History and Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History as well as the Department of International History of the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Biography

Daniel Speich Chassé is full professor in global history since 2018. His research priorities are in the social process of digitization, environmental issues and global economic inequality. He was born in 1969 in Rwanda and raised in Switzerland and Kenya. He studied History, Social Anthropology and Political Philosophy at the University of Zurich where he also gained his Ph.D. (2004) and the Habilitation (2012). Speich Chassé worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) as of 1998. He was a fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes before joining the faculty of the University of Lucerne in 2011 as an SNSF-professor. He serves in several administrative functions (as director of the historical seminar, on the board of the Graduate School Lucerne GSL, as a co-director of the Master program in World Society and Global Governance and the “Master Bilingue” in history in cooperation with Université de Neuchâtel, as a co-director in the focus on digital issues of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and as a member of the board of the Lucerne Centre for Enlightenment, Critical Thinking, and Plurality).