Funded publications
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Buchführung für die Ewigkeit
(2014)
Rainer Hugener Books of Life. Commemorating the Dead in Medieval Switzerland
How were religious practices of remembering the deceased connected to the admin-istration of landholdings and the writing of history in the ...
« Ils aiment pas le français »
(2015)
Jésabel Robin has been a lecturer in French for future primary-school teachers at the German-speaking Pädagogische Hochschule Bern (PH IVP) since 2007. She felt that most of her students were reluctant to their professional ...
Tony Conrad. Video - und darüber hinaus
(2015)
Tony Conrad (b. 1940) has been a well-known American artist for more than 50 years. Celebrated as a musician, filmmaker, video and performance artist, he achieved his breakthrough in 1966 with the experimental film The ...
Die Ordnung des Theaters. Eine Soziologie der Regie
(2013)
Theater direction is today more unfettered, the sphere of artistic possibilities more open, than ever before. Creative chaos on all sides? Not really. Denis Hänzi investigates how old ideals and new realities in the ...
L'Œuvre sans fin. Réception des romans de Monique Saint-Hélier par la critique française (1932-1955)
(2013)
Monique Saint-Hélier became quite successful during the 1930s in particular because of the violent controversy that surrounded her second novel, Bois-Mort. How is it that Saint-Hélier’s work provoked such passionate ...
Klossowski, l’incommunicable
(2015)
Can we communicate the incommunicable? Language is general, but the “depths of the soul” are unique, and only the experience lived in silence is authentic. Would it be possible to find a language that would appear to say ...
Le Nigeria et la Suisse, des affaires d’indépendance
(2016)
During Nigeria’s decolonization, Swiss traders and diplomats, aware of the exceptional potential for growth, attentively observed this new market for possible business opportunities. This book focuses on multinational ...
Croire ensemble. Analyse institutionnelle du paysage religieux en Suisse
(2013)
The study presented in this book for the first time in Switzerland offers a broad empirical and sociological perspective on local religious organizations. From this perspective, religion appears first, as already observed ...
La part sensible de l’acte
(2013)
Social educators are involved daily in situations where institutional, profesional and personal elements are intermingled. To understand what is at stake in accompanying young people placed in a shelter, Joëlle Libois ...
Citoyenneté et réconciliation au Rwanda
(2015)
This action research jointly undertaken by the Center for Conflict Manage-ment in Butare and the Haute Ecole de Travail Social in Geneva aims at analysing and supporting pilot experiences by community actors in post-genocide ...