Every year the Remarque Institute hosts an international seminar for historians and social scientists. These meetings bring together, by invitation, a small number of scholars from the United States, Europe and elsewhere for an extended informal conversation around a defined topic or field. There are no formal presentations and no prepared paper or publication is expected. The seminar, which lasts four days and takes place in a mountain retreat in Kandersteg, Switzerland, offers scholars a chance to meet and get to know people in their field – especially those working in other countries – and offers them an opportunity to present and discuss their work in an international context.
Past Kandersteg Seminars:
KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2019
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Wednesday, April 10 to Sunday, April 14, 2019
Participants:
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
Lale Can, City College of New York
Denis Clark, University of Calgary
Irina Denischenko, Vanderbilt University
Madeleine Dungy, New Europe College
Elisabeth Forster, University of Southampton
Durba Ghosh, Cornell University
Stephen Gross, New York University
Talbot Imlay, Laval University
Kimberly Lowe, Lesley University
Clara Mattei, The New School
Ara Merjian, New York University
Łukasz Mikołajewski, University of Warsaw
Karen Painter, University of Minnesota
Susan Pedersen, Columbia University
Gil Rubin, Harvard University
Alan Sharp, Ulster University, Emeritus
Maria Tatar, Harvard University
Trygve Throntveit, University of Minnesota
Abigail Weil, Harvard University
Brett Wilson, Central European University
Jonathan Wipplinger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Larry Wolff, New York University
Albert Wu, American, The American University of Paris
Urs Matthias Zachmann, Free University of Berlin
KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2018
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Wednesday, April 18 to Sunday, April 22, 2018
Participants:
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
Alexander Bevilacqua, Williams College
David Brewer, Ohio State University
Elizabeth Cross, Florida State University
Ruth de Llobet, University Pompeu Fabra
Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study
Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University
Meredith Martin, New York University
Michele Matteini, New York University
Liron Mor, University of California, Irvine
Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago
Erika Naginski, Harvard University
Pierre Saint-Amand, Yale University
Padraic Scanlan, London School of Economics
Kristel Smentek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jared Warren, New York University
Hannah Weiss Muller, Brandeis University
Huiyi Wu, Cambridge University
Larry Wolff, New York University
Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford University
KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2017
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Wednesday, April 19 to Sunday, April 23, 2017
Participants:
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
Joanna Curtis, New York University
Holly Edwards, Williams College
Stefanie Gänger, University of Cologne
Katherine Harloe, University of Reading
Gregory Heyworth, University of Rochester
Ofri Ilany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/ NYU Tel Aviv
Marysia Jonsson, New York University
Demetra Kasimis, University of Chicago
Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University
Jeremy K. Lin, New York University
David Marno, University of California, Berkeley
Adam Mestyan, Duke University
Ingrid Rowland, University of Notre Dame
Ievgennia Sakal, Yale University
Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michael Tworek, Harvard University
Mathura Umachandran, Princeton University
Larry Wolff, New York University
KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2016
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Wednesday, April 13 to Sunday, April 17, 2016
Participants:
Grey Anderson, Yale University
Alexander Arnold, New York University
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
Larissa Buccholz, Harvard University
Lukas Engelmann, University of Cambridge
Katrina Forrester, Queen Mary University of London
Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
Udi Greenberg, Dartmouth College
Mark Greif, The New School
Dagmar Herzog, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Philippa Hetherington, University College, London
Małgorzata Mazurek, Columbia University
Julia Ng, Goldsmiths, University of London
Mary Nolan, New York University
Andrii Portnov, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
Janet Roitman, The New School
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2015
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Wednesday, March 11 to Sunday, March 15, 2015
Participants:
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
Ayça Çubukçu, London School of Economics
Muriam Haleh Davis, New York University
Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Jason Frank, Cornell University
Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
Nicolas Guilhot, Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS)
Nicole Jerr, Johns Hopkins University
Jamie Martin, Harvard University
Alison McQueen, Stanford University
Glenn W. Most, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Andrea Riemenschnitter, University of Zurich
Camille Robcis, Cornell University
Danilo Scholz, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock, Wesleyan University
Adam Takács, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Natasha Wheatley, Columbia University
KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2014
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Wednesday, April 30 to Sunday, May 4, 2014
Participants:
Olabisi Akinkugbe, University of Ottawa, Canada
Antony Anghie, University of Utah
Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado
Bret Benjamin, State University of New York, Albany
Johanna Bockman, George Mason University
Christopher Dietrich, Fordham University
Katherine Fleming, New York University
Giuliano Garavini, New York University, Abu Dhabi
Nils Gilman, Social Science Matrix, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Guilhot, New York University, CIRHUS (Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Priya Lal, Boston College
Neil Larsen, University of California, Davis
Victor McFarland, Yale University
Samuel Moyn, Columbia University
Kevin O'Sullivan, National University of Ireland, Galway
Vanessa Ogle, University of Pennsylvania
Umut Öszu, University of Manitoba, Canada
Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley
Joey Slaughter, Columbia University
Miriam Ticktin, The New School
Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics
Daniel Whelan, Hendrix College
KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2013
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Wednesday April 10th - Sunday April 14th, 2013
Participants:
Deborah Coen, Barnard College
Joshua Derman, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Filip Erdeljac, New York University
Katherine Fleming, New York University
Alys George, New York University
Alexander CT Geppert, University of Cambridge
Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
Heather Jones, London School of Economics
Brendan Karch, Harvard University
Elektra Kostopoulou, New York University Visiting Scholar
Erik Linstrum, University of Michigan
Kelly Maynard, Grinnell College
Heather Perry, University of North Carolina
Markian Prokopovych, University of Vienna
Pierre Purseigle, University of Birmingham
Dominique Reill, University of Miami
Priya Satia, Stanford University
Igor Tchoukarine, Macalaster College
Nathan Wood, University of Kansas
Larry Wolff, New York University
THE KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2012
March 28, 2012 – Sunday, April 1, 2012
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Participants
Tahir Abbas, Fatih University, Istanbul
James Bjork, King’s College London
James Chappel, Columbia University
Charly Coleman, Washington University in St. Louis
Mikhail Dolbilov, University of Maryland
Katherine Fleming, New York University
Emily Greble, the City College of New York
Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University, Chicago
Liora Halperin, Yale University
Patrick Houlihan, University of Chicago
Ari Joskowicz, Vanderbilt University
Jair Kessler, New York University
Piotr Kosicki, American University
Tijana Krstic, Central European University
Zsuzsánna Magdó, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brenna Moore, Fordham University
Kenneth Moss, John Hopkins University
Patrick Patterson, University of California, San Diego
Andrei Pesic, Princeton University
James Robertson, New York University
Umar Ryad, Leiden University
Sarah Shortall, Harvard University
Larry Wolff, New York University
Genevieve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan
THE KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2011
April 6-10, 2011
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Participants
Herrick Chapman, New York University
Daniel Cohen, Rice University
Venita Datta, Wellesley College
Madigan Fichter, New York University
Katherine Fleming, New York University
Isabelle Genest, Caldwell College
Matthew Hockenos, Skidmore College
Joshua Humphreys, Tellus Institute, Boston
Simon Jackson, New York University
Samuel Moyn, Columbia University
Michelle Pinto, New York University
Timothy Pytell, California State University, San Bernardino
Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University
John Savage, Lehigh University
Willa Silverman, Penn State University
Moshik Temkin, Harvard Kennedy School
Larry Wolff, New York University
THE KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2010
April 7-11, 2010
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Participants
Tarik Cyril Amar, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
Giorgios Antoniou, Democritus University of Thrace
Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University
Emily Greble Balić, The City College of New York
Pamela Ballinger, Bowdoin College
Timothy Baycroft, University of Sheffield
Holly Case, Cornell University
Katherine Fleming, New York University
Piotr Forecki, Adam Mickiewicz University
Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union
Aslı Iğsız, University of Arizona
James Mark, University of Exeter
Catherine Merridale, Queen Mary, University of London
Simon Prince, Queen’s University, Belfast
Michal Shapira, Amherst College
David Benjamin Shneer, University of Colorado at Boulder
Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lisa Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University
Polymeros Voglis, University of Thessaly
Tara Zahra, University of Chicago
Rakefet Zalashik, University of Virginia
THE KANDERSTED SEMINAR 2008
November 5-9, 2008
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Participants
Stefanie Brodmann, Princeton University
Milena Büchs, University of Southampton
Angus Burgin, Harvard University
Nicolas Duvoux, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Katherine Fleming, New York University
Jing Guo, University of Hawaii - Manoa
Mark Hellowell, University of Edinburgh
Rana Jawad, University of Warwick
Tony Judt, New York University
Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Maschke, German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Matthias Matthijs, Johns Hopkins University
Molly Michelmore, Washington and Lee University
Kimberly J. Morgan, George Washington University
Julia Moses, University of Oxford
Bruno Palier, Centre de Recherches Politique de Sciences Po
Nicola Pasini, University of Milan
Maria Ponomarenko, Stanford University
Monica Prasad, Northwestern University
Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France
David Rueda, University of Oxford
Richard Sennett, New York University & London School of Economics
James Sparrow, University of Chicago
THE KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2007
October 31 - November 4, 2007
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Participants
Joshua Derman, Princeton University
Katherine Fleming, New York University
Peter Gordon, Harvard University
Jens Hacke, Humboldt University
Nicole Hochner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ben Jackson, University of Oxford
Tony Judt, New York University
Andreas Kalyvas, The New School for Social Research
Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge
Anne Kornhauser, Columbia University
Nitzan Lebovic, Institute for Democracy
Daniel Morat, The Free University
Sam Moyn, Columbia University
Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University
Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago
Efraim Podoksik, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Olivier Remaud, École des Hautes Études
Mario Ricciardi, University of Milan
Jessica Riskin, Stanford University
Pierre Rosanvallon, Collège de France
Marci Shore, Yale University
John Shovlin, New York University
Balázs Trencsényi, Central European University
Blaise Wilfert-Portal, École Normale Supérieure
THE KANDERSTEG SEMINAR 2006
March 29 - April 2, 2006
Kandersteg, Switzerland
Participants
Muriel Blaive, Charles University, Prague
Holly Case, Cornell University
Herrick Chapman, New York University
Rita Chin, University of Michigan
Matthew Connelly, Columbia University
Justine Faure, Université Robert Schuman
Katherine Fleming, New York University
Eleonory Gilburd, University of California, Berkeley
Jan T. Gross, Princeton University
Tony Judt, New York University
Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
Charles King, Georgetown University
Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
José Luis Ledesma, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Benjamin Martin, Free University, Columbia University
Ben Mercer, University of Pennsylvania
Catherine Merridale, Queen Mary College
Samuel Moyn, Columbia University
Jan-Werner Mueller, Princeton University
Clara Oberle, Princeton University
Andreas Roedder, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Hans Ingvar Roth, Stockholm School of Education
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
Kristina Spohr Readman, London School of Economics
Harald Wydra, University of Cambridge