ColLab History Seminar

The ColLab Seminar (Autumn 2026) is a workshop-format seminar organised by the SNSF Project Group “Moral and Economic Entrepreneurship: A Collaborative History of Global Switzerland”, convened at UniDistance (Brig) and online. Sessions take place from 14:30–16:30 and are devoted to discussion of ongoing research in Swiss global history, colonialism and adjacent themes; the format prioritises pre-circulated texts and collegial, research-focused exchange.

To obtain the link for remote participation, please contact: Caroline Montebello.

25 September

Bernhard C. Schär (UniDistance Suisse)
Title: Empire and Intimacy: Johannes von Müller and the Making of Modern History around 1800
 

23 October 2026

Caroline Montebello (UniDistance Suisse)
Title: Exhumer les corps, mesurer la race: les ossuaires du Valais comme terrain d'enquête en Europe centrale
 

12 November 2026

Aretuza da Cruz Silva (Federal University of Espírito Santo)
Title: A Colony Called Leopoldina'. The Founding of a Private Colony by Swiss and Germans in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
 

18 December 2026

Michael Schmitz (UniDistance Suisse)
Title: Swiss Cacao Traders in Bahia: A Global History of the Cacao Trade, 1890–1945 (thesis chapter discussion)
 

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