Visiting Professors

Charles Sabel is a professor of Law and Social Science at Columbia Law School. Previously he was Ford International Professor of Social Science at MIT. Recent work develops pragmatist ideas into a general conception of democratic...

Monday 27 March 2023, Monday 17 April 2023

Roy Vilozny is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Haifa.He will take part of the Visiting Professors Program designed by EHESS, on proposal of Mathieu Terrier (CNRS) LecturesFood for ...

Thursday 14 April 2022, Monday 25 April 2022

Shcherbak Andrey is a Deputy Head of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He was a Mellon European...

Monday 9 March 2020, Friday 20 March 2020

Yuri Slezkine is Jane K. Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution, the International Institute at the University of Michigan,...

Friday 6 March 2020, Friday 20 March 2020

Jonas Pontusson holds a BA from Amherst College (1978) and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley (1984). Prior to moving to Geneva in 2010, he taught at Cornell University (1984-2005) and Princeton University (2005-10). He has been a...

Thursday 16 January 2020, Tuesday 4 February 2020

Andrea Giunta is an Art historian and curator specialized in Latin American and Contemporary Art, she received her Ph.D. from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she is Professor of Latin American and Contemporary Art. She is also...

Thursday 9 May 2019, Wednesday 15 May 2019

Chong Ming is research professor of politics at East China Normal University in Shanghai. His research focuses on the history of western modern political thought. Particular interests include French liberalism from Montesquieu to Tocqueville, the...

Thursday 6 June 2019

Christian Fröhlich is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. He is invited by Françoise Daucé (CERCEC). He has a Doctorate in Sociology from the University...

Friday 10 May 2019, Friday 24 May 2019

Professor Bee Chin NG is Associate Professor in Linguistics and Psychology and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her main research areas are bilingual acquisition, language identity and attitudes in...

Friday 24 May 2019, Friday 14 June 2019

Luca Ciancio is Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of Verona (Italy). His academic training took place in Bologna and Florence Universities (1982-90), at the Wellcome Institute (London 1990-91) and Dibner Institute (Boston...

Tuesday 7 May 2019, Tuesday 14 May 2019

Audrey Truschke is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University-Newark. She is invited by Fabrizio Speziale (CEIAS) from March 19th till April 19th 2019.Her teaching and research interests focus on the cultural, imperial,...

Wednesday 27 March 2019, Tuesday 9 April 2019

John Gallagher is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds, and prior to this, a Research Fellow in History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge....

Friday 1 March 2019, Wednesday 24 April 2019

Anthony Hatzimoysis specializes in the Philosophy of Emotions. He has held academic posts at the University College London, the University of Manchester, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; he is Associate Professor of Contemporary Philosophy...

Monday 6 May 2019, Wednesday 24 April 2019

Carlos Mondragón is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Centro de Estudios de Asia y África in El Colegio de México. His first degree was a BA in History, awarded in 1996 by the National University of Mexico, but he went on to develop a...

Wednesday 3 April 2019, Friday 12 April 2019

Professor Xiangdong Xing is currently Distinguished Professor and Changjiang Scholar at Shaanxi Normal University, where he also heads the Language Resource Development Research Center. He obtained his PhD degree from Shandong University (2000), and...

Wednesday 3 April 2019, Friday 12 April 2019

Chandana Mathur was educated at the University of Delhi and the New School for Social Research, New York, and now teaches at the Anthropology Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Drawing on the perspectives of anthropological...

Friday 1 March 2019, Tuesday 18 June 2019

Shinsuke Nagaoka is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He was a visiting researcher at the Islamic Research and Training Institute at the Islamic Development Bank (2010...

Thursday 4 April 2019, Wednesday 17 April 2019

Léon Buskens holds a chair for Law and Culture in Muslim societies at Leiden University and is director of the Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR). His research is about Islamic law and society, and the anthropology of Muslim societies, with a...

Thursday 20 December 2018, Thursday 19 December 2019

Prof. Dr. Barbara Vinken, Ph.D., has been Professor for French and Comparative Literature at  LMU Munich (Germany) since 2004. Her  main areas of research are the Renaissance, the French Novel from the 18th to the 20th Century,...

Wednesday 6 March 2019, Wednesday 27 March 2019

Gabriel Abend is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University and Professor of Sociology at University of Lucerne. He studied political science and history at the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay), and received his PhD in...

Monday 4 February 2019, Monday 25 February 2019

Bae-Gyoon Park is a Professor of Geography in the College of Education at Seoul National University in Korea, and the director of Center for Asian Cities (CAC) at Seoul National University Asia Center.His recent research focuses on geo-political...

Monday 11 March 2019, Friday 29 March 2019

Anna Contadini is Professor (full) of the History of Islamic Art and Director of the “Treasures of SOAS Project” at SOAS, University of London. She is also the Director of the international project “The Pisa Griffin and the Lion”. She has just...

Thursday 7 February 2019, Thursday 21 February 2019

Malena López Palmero has a PhD in History (University of Buenos Aires, 2014) and has a degree as a History Teacher (University of Buenos Aires, 2005). She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and an Associate Professor at the...

Tuesday 15 January 2019, Thursday 31 January 2019

Elena Trubina is a Professor in Social Theory at the Ural Federal University. She is invited by Emmanuel Pedler (Centre Norbert Elias) and will take part of the Visiting Porfessors Program designe by EHESS from 1 th January till 30th January 2019....

Tuesday 30 January 2018, Wednesday 15 May 2019