The ColLab Seminar (Spring 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 14:00–16:00 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.
Spring 2026 Programme
18 February
Michael Schmitz (UniDistance)
Title: Swiss Traders in Bahia and the Making of Global Cacao Markets, 1914-1945
3 March
Bernhard C. Schär & Caroline Montebello (UniDistance)
Title: Draft SNSF proposal “Ancestral Remains in Switzerland”
10 March
Amal Shahid (UNIL) & Soni (IIT Jodhpur)
Title: Draft SNSF/ICSSR Proposal “Swiss-India Economic Transformations c.1900-1990”
17 March
Izabel Barros (UNIL)
Title: Free people in an enslaved land: Free workers and their labour on a Swiss-owned plantation in Ilhéus, Bahia (1836–1860)
15 April
Elena Simonato (UNIL)
Book Talk: Les Suisses de la mer Noire
26 May
Amal Shahid (UNIL)
Title: Draft article: The Basel Mission Trading Company in India during the First World War
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