UniDistance Suisse at the 7th Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences

Professors, mid-level academic staff, and students from our faculty took part in the 2025 Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences, confirming UniDistance Suisse’s presence in the national academic landscape and highlighting the concrete contribution of our master’s programme in developing research skills and fostering participation in scholarly life.
Held every three years, the Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences are a key gathering for historians in Switzerland. The 2025 edition, organised by the "Schweizerisiche Gesellschaft für Geschichte / Société Suisse d'Histoire" and hosted by the University of Lucerne in July, brought together several hundred researchers around the theme “(Un)sichtbarkeit / (In)visibilité,” reflecting the richness and dynamism of current historical research.
Beyond the scientific contributions of its teaching staff (see list below), our faculty is particularly pleased with the involvement of its students. As part of the Scientific event module of the master’s in history, Gérard Bottazzoli prepared two reports published on the platform infoclio.ch. This experience exemplifies the practical orientation of our curriculum, which promotes participation in academic events, networking within the scholarly community, the development of writing and synthesis skills, and the dissemination of historical knowledge in public spaces.
These reports are available online:

• Bottazzoli Gérard: « Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit der Gefängnishaft / Visibilité et invisibilité de l’emprisonnement punitif », infoclio.ch Tagungsberichte, 27.07.2025.
• Bottazzoli Gérard: « (Anti)féminismes et droits reproductifs en Suisse (1971-2001). Pouvoir des image, images de pouvoir », infoclio.ch Tagungsberichte, 11.08.2025.

• (Anti)féminismes et droits reproductifs en Suisse (1971-2001). Pouvoir des images, images de pouvoir – with the participation of Audrey Bonvin
• Les faces cachées de la conquête des sommets : Penser l'invisibilité dans l'espace montagnard – with the participation of Claude Hauser and Lucia Leoni
• Les festivals de films : espaces d’(in)visibilisation et lieux de pouvoir – with the participation of Cyril Cordoba
• Gouverner les populations des institutions disciplinaires au 20e siècle: comment donner à voir l’invisible? – with the participation of Cézane Beretta
• Histoire des capitalismes: visibiliser leurs interdépendances – with the participation of Raul Wildbolz-Gallego
• Institutions and Capitalism: Uncovering Invisibilized Endeavours through Multilingual Historical Sources – with the participation of Sabine Pitteloud
• The Invisibilised History of Chocolate and Cacao Trade – with the participation of Bernhard Schär and Mathieu Humbert
• (In)visibiliser les tensions intrafamiliales – with the participation of Aurore Müller
• Les mobilités invisibles. Une histoire des cyclistes et des piétons en Suisse et au-delà – with the participation of Tiphaine Robert
• Selbstermächtigung oder Fremdbestimmung? Die Ambivalenz der (Un-)Sichtbarkeit marginalisierter Gruppen im 20. Jahrhundert – with the participation of Sophie Küsterling
• (Un)sichtbare Biografien – Afrikanische Leben in Osteuropa – with the participation of Matthieu Gillabert
• (Un)sichtbarkeit in Erinnerungs-, Wissen(schaft)s- und Vermittlungsräumen – with the participation of Franziska Metzger and Damian Troxler
• Zugang zu den Unternehmensarchiven – with the participation of Sabine Pitteloud

Event cover image: © Erika Irmler