Sandrine Kott (Geneva)

Historicum Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Colloquium "Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism"

The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, June 19th, with a lecture by Senior Fellow Sandrine Kott on ‘Multinational corporations: local or international causes’

Sandrine Kott has been a full professor of Modern European History at the University of Geneva since 2004. She is also a member of the Independent Historical Commission for the Investigation of the History of the Reich Labour Ministry. Her main fields of work are the history of the welfare state in France and Germany since the end of the 19th century and the social history of the GDR. She has published in many French, German and North American journals and has edited several anthologies, such as Die ostdeutsche Gesellschaft. Eine transnationale Perspektive (Links Verlag, 2006) with Emmanuel Droit, Deputy Director of the Centre Marc Bloch. Her most recent monograph is her study of the cold war Gouverner le monde. Une autre histoire de la guerre froide (Le Seuil, 2021).

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