Talks

2022-01-26 Muri

26. Januar 2022, Muri, Groupe Acceuil et Dialogue, Diplomatic Spouses in Bern (GAD)

Swiss Foreign Policy Between Neutrality and Internationalism

Prof. Dr. Sacha Zala, Historian, Director of the Research Centre Diplomatic Documents of
Switzerland (Dodis), Professor at the University of Bern and President of the Swiss Society for
History will give a lecture entitled “Swiss Foreign Policy Between Neutrality and
Internationalism”, which is an overview of foreign policy from its beginnings and in particular in
the 20th century.
The second part of his talk will be dedicated to a brief presentation of the Dodis online resources, where we could find documents regarding all aspects of Swiss Foreign Policy.
The Dodis research center is an institute of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social
Sciences. As a centre of excellence for studies in the history of Swiss foreign policy, Dodis
conducts basic research on the contemporary history of Switzerland since 1848.

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2022-01-03 Berne

January 3 2022, Berne, Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (Dodis)

Media conference concerning the publication of the new volume DDS 1991

On January 1st, 2022, exactly when the legally stipulated confidentiality period has run out, the Research Centre Dodis published on its database a selection of the most relevant files on the history of Swiss foreign policy in 1991, a year of radical changes. 62 of these key documents were published in the latest volume, Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland 1991, which was presented at a hybrid media conference by Dodis Director Sacha Zala, Madeleine Herren (President Scientific Advisory Board) and Philippe Künzler (Director Federal Archives).
These newly accessible documents show the controversies around the conclusion of the EEA Agreement, the foreign-political challenges Switzerland was facing at the beginning of the Gulf War of 1991 and the Yugoslav Wars as well as during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The publication of these documents was widely reported in the Swiss media.

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2021-11-02 Fribourg

02. novembre 2021, Université de Fribourg

L’histoire de l’édition de documents diplomatiques (17–21e siècle)
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2021-09-24 Thun

24. September 2021, Univers Suisse historique, Hotel Alpha Thun

Grundlagenforschung zur Zeitgeschichte

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2021-04-29 Lissabon

29. April 2021, Lissabon (online), Instituto Diplomatico

Publishing and interconnecting diplomatic documents: The Swiss case (Dodis and Metagrid)

Talk of Sacha Zala at the internatioal workshop Archives and Historical Research International Best Practices in Digitisation Projects.
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2021-01-04 Bern

4. Januar 2021, Bern, Diplomatische Dokumente der Schweiz (Dodis)

Neue Dokumente zum Jahre 1990. Präsentation der neusten Aktenedition zur Schweizer Aussenpolitik

Pünktlich nach Ablauf der 30-jährigen Schutzfrist haben die Diplomatischen Dokumente der Schweiz unter Teilnahme von alt Bundesrat Arnold Koller ihren neuen Band zum Umbruchjahr 1990 vorgestellt. Der Bundespräsident von 1990 erinnerte sich an sein erstes Präsidialjahr, an die EWR-Verhandlungen, die Weiterentwicklung der Neutralitätspolitik anlässlich des Irakkonfliktes sowie den Pariser-Gipfel der KSZE und hob die Edition als «wertvolles Arbeitsinstrument» für die zeitgeschichtliche Forschung hervor.

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