Speaking Joy: Reading and Discussion

The Annual Pierre du Bois Doctoral Workshop brings together doctoral researchers and specialists to examine economic, political and technological exchanges between Asian communist states and the capitalist world during the Cold War. Speakers include LIU Yi and YANG Ziru (Geneva Graduate Institute), Dr. Severyan Dyakonov (SNSF, University of Fribourg) and Karina Khasnulina (Leipzig University). The workshop investigates how cross-bloc entanglements across the so-called “Bamboo Curtain” persisted and how they shaped Cold War rivalry and Asian economic development.

An interdisciplinary workshop investigating how Christian actors and value systems have shaped multilateral institutions and norms. Participants examine contributions of churches, Christian NGOs and individuals to the multilateral system, the circulation and secularization of religious values, and the impact of Christian frameworks on family policy, women’s rights, human rights and corporate social responsibility. The programme foregrounds underrepresented actors, spatial and institutional settings, and temporal dynamics from the twentieth to the twenty-first century, fostering comparative and transnational perspectives.

In English.