History of the Olympic Games and International Relations

« The globalisation of sport from the 1880s to the mid-1930s: cultures, events and institutions »Monday 26 June 2023, Association des Professeurs d'Histoire et de Géographie, virtual café

« Introduction. What do we know today about the Cold War in sport? », Nantes, Tuesday 28 March 2023, Conference What the Cold War did to world sport

« The Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, between tradition and modernity », Lausanne, 24 May 2022, UNIL, HELIOS Association

« The prosopography of IOC members, 1894-1972 ». Lausanne, 7 April 2022, UNIL, Research Day 2022 of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences

« Sports betting and the 1900 and 1924 Olympic Games », Paris, 29 March 2022, National Federation of Guide Interpreters and speakers, webinar

« Olympism and Cold War: how to review scientific literature? », Olympia (Greece), 15-21 november 2021, International Olympic Academy, 28th International seminar on Olympic studies for postgraduate students, supervising professor

« The opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games (1960-2021). From national novels to the global media age », Lausanne, Olympic Museum, 10 November 2021, UNIL/VSQ/ULB, METIS Autumn Graduate School 2021 « Spectacle and spectacular in the contemporary era »

« Olympism and Cold War: which history? », Olympia (Greece), 24 septembre 2020, International Olympic Academy, 27th International seminar on Olympic studies for postgraduate students, supervising professor

« Teaching the history of sport: the example of the Olympic Games », Blois, 10 September 2020, Rendez-Vous de l'Histoire

« The history of the Olympic Games », Paris, 3 February 2020, La Villette, Olympic and Paralympic Week, guest speaker invited by Rector Gilles Pécout

« Olympism and the Cold War: social, cultural and political history », Lausanne, 2 October 2019, UNIL, Faculty of Arts, master's seminar with Prof. Philippe Kaenel « The Cold War and Switzerland: arts and cultures »

« The establishment of the IOC in Lausanne (1906-1946). A multi-scalar history », Lausanne, 23 November 2017, UNIL-SSP, CRHIM research seminar « Global cities, globalisation of cities »

« The Olympic Games, globalisation and modernity since 1896 », Dijon, 31 October 2017, 17the ACAPS International Conference, guest speaker (plenary session)

« The Olympic arena from 1905 to 1916, between peace and war », Lausanne, 28 Fabruary 2017, UNIL-SSP, CRHIM research seminar « The origins of war: political, economic and social issues »

« A stadium that never dies: the Panathenaic Stadium (330 BC - 2004) », Lausanne, 26 January 2017, Olympic Museum, « Stades dating »

"Red Army. A documentary by Gabe Polsky (2014)", Rouen, 18 January 2017, Ciné-Sport Festival

"The Olympic Empire", Blois, 9 October 2015, Les Rendez-Vous de l'Histoire, 2015 edition "Empires", Cartes blanches: http://www.rdv-histoire.com/edition-2015-les-empires/l-empire-olympique-par-patrick-clastres

"Red Army. A documentary by Gabe Polsky (2014)", Blois, 9 October 2015, Les Rendez-Vous de l'Histoire, 2015 edition "Empires", conference-debate: http://www.rdv-histoire.com/edition-2015-les-empires/red-army