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

Les grands tournants européens depuis 1945

New | Nouveau – No 2, March 2023

Gilles Grin, Directeur de la Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe  et chargé de cours à l’Université de Lausanne.

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Pierre du Bois Doctoral Workshop 2023

Mobile Actors in Global History

Event | Événement – April 3-4, 2023

The third Annual Pierre du Bois Doctoral Workshop, organized by the Graduate Institute in partnership with the Pierre du Bois Foundation will take place at Maison de la Paix on 3-4 April 2023. The workshop’s title is “Mobile Actors in Global History” and the workshop is organized by Anna Diem and Burak Sayim, from the International History and Politics Department. This workshop is open to anyone interested.

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Papiers d’actualité / Current Affairs in Perspective

Il y a 175 ans avait lieu le « Printemps des Peuples » de 1848. Une Étape essentielle vers une redéfinition de l’Europe

New | Nouveau – No 1, January 2023

M.Olivier Meuwly, Historien, spécialiste de l’histoire des partis politiques.

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Prize Pierre du Bois 2022

The 2022 Pierre du Bois Prize

Prize I June 2022

The recipients of the Pierre du Bois Prize in 2022, awarded annually for the best doctoral thesis in International History and Politics defended at the Geneva Graduate Institute, are, ex aequo, Dr Michele Sollai and Dr Joel Alfred Veldkamp.

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