Current Visitors

Frédéric Attal (May 1 – 15, 2009): Maître de Conférences,  Department of Social Sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan).  Interests : Contemporary Italy, European integration.

Nicolas Barreyre (January 20 – February 20, 2009): professeur agrégé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Interests: 19th-Century US history.

Marcus Bleinroth (December 5 – December 20, 2008): Alternate Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN and International Organizations, Vienna, Austria.  Interests: international politics, European Union.

Nicolas Delalande (September 19 – October 17, 2008): Doctoral student, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and Université de Paris I. Interests: 19th and 20th century French history.

Artur Domoslawski (January 20 – February 20, 2009): Columnist, Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw).  Interests: foreign policy, globalization and its critics, Ryszard Kapuscinski.

Michael Daxner (March 20 – April 17, 2009): Professor of Sociology and President Emeritus,  University of Oldenburg.  Interests: International intervention, refugee education in Africa, Balkans, Afghanistan.

Eric Fassin (April 17 – May 1, 2009): Professor, Social Sciences Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm). Interests: The politics and sociology of gender.

Bernard Hautecloque (February 20 – March 20, 2009): Doctoral student, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.

Axel Körner (April 17 – May 5, 2009): Reader in Modern European History, University of London. Interests: European cultural history, images of the United States in nineteenth-century Europe and Latin-America.

Wolf Lepenies (October 17 – November 17, 2008): (Rector Emeritus and Permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.  Interests: German and European cultural and intellectual history.

Alexandre Massé (October 17 – November 21, 2008): Doctoral student, Université de Toulouse.

François Menant (November 21 – December 19, 2008): Chair, Department of History, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris. Interests: Medieval history of Italy.

Christoph Michael (February 20 – March 20, 2009): Research Fellow, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg and doctoral student, Humboldt University, Berlin. Interests: the ethical foundations of politics in the 21st century, the political philosophy of Albert Camus.

Gert Oostindie (November 17 – December 5, 2008): Director of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, and Professor of History, Leiden University. Interests: Dutch colonialism, postcolonial identity politics in the Netherlands, colonization & decolonization.

Gilles Pécout (September 5 – September 19, 2008): Professor of History, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Paris. Interests: history of Italy and Mediterranean Europe.

Olivier Remaud (March 20 – April 17, 2009): Associate Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Interests: intellectual and cultural history of Europe.

Zeev Sternhell (May 8 – May 29, 2009): Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Interests: European intellectual history, fascist ideology.