Upcoming and past events on which we talk about the topics of our research.
Upcoming Events
8.-11.07.2025
Demokratisierung der Studien. Visionen von Studierenden zwischen Bildungseuphorie und Enttäuschung (ca. 1957-1974)
Lucerne
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Contribution of Timothy Schürmann at the 7. Schweizerische Geschichtstage/Journées suisses d’histoire within the panel: Imagination und Widerstand: Gegen-Sichtbarkeiten im Kapitalismus (20. Jahrhundert).
Past Events
27.-29.11.2024
Engaging for Europe before Erasmus: European Student Meetings in the 1970-1980s
Lausanne
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Contribution of Lidia Lesnykh and Timothy Schürmann at the Conference: Europeanisations from the Bottom and from the Margins. Actors, Representations, and Experiences (late 19th-early 21st centuries).
23.11.2024
Transnational Networks and Anti-Colonial Production of ‘Democratic’ International NGOs
Boston
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Contribution of Mikuláš Pešta at the 56th ASEEES Annual Convention within the panel: Beyond Moscow: Eastern Europeans vis-à-vis the Liberation Movements in the Global South.
25.-26.09.2024
Workshop: “Cold War Divisions: Histories of Students and their Transnational Dimensions”
Prague
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mid-project workshop of the project.
15.07.2024
Student Internationalism and the Global Cold War: The Case of the International Union of Students
Tübingen
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Presentation of Mikuláš Pešta at the colloquium Neuere Forschungen zur Osteuropäischen Geschichte at the University of Tübingen.
11.06.2024
Catholic Internationalism under the Test of the Cold War: Pax Romana and Communist Influence within the International Student Movement (1945-1958)
Fribourg
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Contribution of Lidia Lesnykh at the Seminar: Acteurs et vecteurs de l’anticommunisme catholique : tensions et paradoxes.
Part of the seminar series: Catholicisme et anticommunisme : l’apogée
du pontificat de Pie XII
30.05.2024
‘International democratic organizations’: Transnational socialist and anti-colonial networks
Utrecht
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Presentation of Mikuláš Pešta at the conference Recolonising Empires during the Cold War organised by the (In)Equality Platform IOS of the Utrecht University .
28.05.2024
Open Research Data Practices in
Research Proposal Assessment: Current Practices & Future
Perspectives at UniFr
Fribourg
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Presentation of Timothy Schürmann at the 1st recORD Workshop at the University of Fribourg where he presented our project and its work with Geovistory on the database.
28.04.2024
The International Union of Students and Student Internationalism in the Cold War
Vienna
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Presentation of Mikuláš Pešta at the University of Vienna.
02.05.2024
„Youth Unite, Forward for Lasting Peace!” The First World Festival of Youth and Students in Prague 1947
Wiesneck (Buchenbach)
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Presentation of Martin Pácha at the XI. Deutsch-Schweizerischer Studientag für Osteuropäische Geschichte.
14.05.2024
Democratic International Organizations, Anti-Colonial Networks and Transformations at the End of the Cold War
Istanbul
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Presentation of Mikuláš Pešta at the Max Weber Foundation Conference Harmful Entanglements at the Orient-Institut Istanbul.
03.11.2023
A Hub of Anticolonialism. Prague’s International Organizations and the Anti-colonial
Network in the Global Cold War
Prague
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Contribution of Mikuláš Pešta at the Conference: Prague’s International Organizations and the Global Cold War.
03.11.2023
Student Internationalism in the Cold War. The Foundation and Split of the International Union of Students
Prague
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Contribution of Lidia Lesnykh at the Conference: Prague’s International Organizations and the Global Cold War.
13.-14.11.2023
« J’espère que vos représentants n’oublieront pas la vodka » : les initiatives de coopération estudiantine en Europe (1957-1967)
Lyon
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Contribution of Lidia Lesnykh and Timothy Schürmann at the Seminar: L’Europe à l’étude. Écrire des histoires européennes de l’éducation : un chantier interdisciplinaire
05.10.2023
The Massification of Studies in Switzerland and the VSS-UNES-USU: Between Sputnik, Social Welfare, Human Capital and Federalism
Fribourg
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Contribution of Timothy Schürmann at a workshop of the doctoral programme Regimes of Inequality.
29.06.2023
Students as Precursors of Alternative Tourism
The Hague
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Contribution of Matthieu Gillabert at the European Congress on World and Global History 2023. Name of the panel: The Regional and Global Politics of Student Mobility.
21.04.2023
The Swiss Student Union between Cold War agenda and the new student condition
Geneva
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Contribution of Timothy Schürmann at the Historiales 2023. Name of the panel: Logiques d’acteurs internationaux : perspectives de la société civile, du secteur privé et des organisations internationales.