vendredi 18 décembre 2026
14:30 - 16:30
Meetingroom Campus 413 & online

Michael Schmitz (UniDistance Suisse) will discuss his thesis chapter "Swiss Cacao Traders in Bahia: A Global History of the Cacao Trade, 1890–1945”. A pre-circulated text will be made available to participants in advance.

To obtain the link for remote participation, please contact: caroline.montebello@unidistance.ch.

The ColLab History Seminar 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.