Stella Ghervas - Lectures

Paper "The ‘Orthodox Commonwealth’: A Russo-Hellenic Utopia for the Balkans, 1815-1856",
49th Annual ASEEES Convention, Chicago, November 12, 2017
Guest Lecture: "Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union"
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 11 May 2017, 5:00 pm (Poster)
Schuman Lecture 2017 "Europe's Pursuit of Peace: Past, Present and Future"
Maastricht University and the City of Maastricht, 9 May 2017, 8:00 pm (Poster)
Chair: "Partners in Leadership? Understanding Crises and Resilience in
Transatlantic Security Relations"
New Research on Europe - Visiting Scholar Seminar
Center for European Studies, Harvard University
3 May 2017, 12:15 - 1:45 pm
Lecture "Calming the Waters? Toward a New History of the Black Sea"
Seminar in Ukrainian Studies
Harvard Research Ukrainian Institute, 24 April 2017, 4:00-6:00 PM
Chair: "Finding Europe: The Languages of a Contested Concept"
Visiting Scholar Seminar - New Research on Europe
Center for European Studies, Harvard University
19 April 2017, 12:15 - 1:45 pm
Chair: Off-the-record Discussion Europe - Russia Relations in Incertain Times
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
13 March 2017, 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Paper: "Peace for Europe, War to the Sultan? Russia and the Paradoxes of the Eastern Question from Vienna to the Crimean War"
Panel "Nineteenth-century Imperial Russian Foreign Policy"
48th Annual ASEEES Convention, Washington DC, November 18, 2016
Paper: "Modernizing the Machinery of Peace? From a Balance of Power
to a Balance of Negotiation, 1815-1853"
Conference "The Price of Peace: Modernizing the Ancien Régime, Europe 1815-1848"
Organized by the University of Kent Paris, 22-25 August 2016
"Re: Thinking Europe -- An Anthology". Presentation of the volume: Panel with Larry Siedentop,
Stella Ghervas, Tom Holland, and Philippe Blom
Forum on European Culture, DutchCulture & De Balie
Amsterdam, 1-3 June 2016
Paper: "The Myth of the European Phoenix: From the Ashes of War to European Unification
(1700-2016 -- and beyond?)"
23rd International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies
Philadelphia, 14-16 April 2016
Chair, Panel "Flashpoints in Europe's Violent Twentieth Century"
23rd International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies
Philadelphia, 14-16 April 2016
Keynote Lecture "Europe's Quest for Peace: Can the Past Explain the Present?"
UAB Graduate History Conference
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heritage Hall 102, 8 April 2016, 6:00 PM
Chair, Panel "Reflections on Russia's Monarchy and Autocraty"
Southern Conference of Slavic Studies (SCSS)
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 17-19 March 2016
Paper: "The Holy Alliance and the Eastern Question"
Conference "Die Heilige Allianz / The Holy Alliance"
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg & Stuttgart University, February 22-24, 2016
Paper: "The Spirit of Geneva: Seeking Peace through a League of Nations"
Staff Seminar, Department of History, Durham University, December 2, 2015
Paper: "A Tale of Two Congresses: Paradigms of European Order from Utrecht to Vienna, 1713-1815"
Law and Global Justice at Durham (LGJ), Durham Law School, November 24, 2015
Lecture: "Deep Foundations of the Vienna Order: From Utrecht to the Holy Alliance"
Conference "Restoration Politics: Political Thought in Congress Europe, c. 1815-1830",
Christ Church College, Oxford, 4 September 2015
Paper: "Du silence des canons à la paix des diplomates: deux visions de l’ordre politique européen en 1815"
Conference "Le Congrès de Vienne 1814/1815. Bilan et perspectives / Der Wiener Kongress 1814/15. Bilanz und Perspectiven"
Deutsches Historisches Instituts Paris / Institut historique allemand (DHI), Paris, 15-16 June 2015
Lecture (and Paper): "Who is In and who is Out? Inclusion and Exclusion in Conference Diplomacy, 1815-2015"
International Conference "200 Years of Conference Diplomacy: From the Congress of Vienna to the G7"
German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, 8-9 June 2015
Paper: "Enlightenment and Tradition in Post-Napoleonic Europe: The Worlds of Alexander Sturdza"
Workshop "The Enlightenment and Its Legacies: European Political Thought, 1760-1840"
Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, 29-30 April 2015
Comment: "The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Its Impact on Relations with Russia"
Speaker: Former EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht; Discussant: Stella Ghervas, CES Harvard
Harvard Law School, organized by Harvard European Law Association, March 31, 2015, 12:15 PM, Houser 104
Lecture: "From the Alliance of Kings to the League of Nations: Two Conceptions of Peace in Europe, 1815-1919"
Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe, Center for European Studies
Harvard University, 4 March 2015, 12.15 PM
Paper: "The Vienna Peace Settlements: From a Balance of Power to a Balance of Negociation"
International Conference "The Congress of Vienna 1814-1815: Making Peace after Global War"
Columbia University, New York, 5-7 February 2015
Paper: "The Balkans after the Congress of Vienna: From the ‘Orthodox Commonwealth’
to the Crimean War"
International Conference "Balkan Worlds II: Balkan Perceptions of War and Revolution (1789-1918)"
University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, 27-29 November 2014
Book Launch of Reinventarea tradiţiei: Alexandru Sturdza şi Europa Sfintei Alianţe
with Stella Ghervas (author), Elena Siupiur, Stefan Vianu, Vasile Ernu
Book Fair Gaudeamus (Târgul de Carte Gaudeamus), Pavilionul Central Romexpo, Standul nr. 20, nivelul 0.00
Romexpo, Bucharest (Romania), 21 November 2014, 6 p.m.
Book Launch of Reinventarea tradiţiei: Alexandru Sturdza şi Europa Sfintei Alianţe
with Stella Ghervas (author), Igor Sarov, Virgil Pâslariuc, Emil Dragnev, Emil Galaicu-Paun
Libraria din Centru, Chisinau (Moldova), 19 November 2014, 6:15 p.m.
Paper: "The Holy Alliance vs. the Quadruple Alliance: Two Contrasting Views on
the Vienna Peace Order"
International Conference "Vienna 1815. The Making of a European Security Culture"
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Amsterdam / The Hague, 5-7 November 2014
Paper: "In the Service of Russia: Western Travelers on the Littoral of the Black Sea (1800-1830)"
Conference of the Black Sea Project "The Economic and Social Development of the Port-Cities of the Southern Black Sea Coast, Late 18th - Beginning of the 20th century"
Ionian University, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH & Boğaziçi University
Istanbul, 23-26 October 2014
Paper: "100 Years Great War - 200 Years Congress of Vienna"
XI Forte de Copacabana, International Security Conference "Multilateral Security Governance"
Organized by CEBRI & Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Rio de Janeiro, 9-10 October 2014
Paper: "Peace for Europe, War to the Sultan? Russia and the Paradoxes of the Eastern Question,
from Vienna to Laibach"
International Conference "The Congress of Vienna and its Global Dimension"
University of Vienna, 18-22 September 2014
Paper: "Odessa, berceau de la Grèce moderne: Aux origines secrètes de la Philiki Eteria" [Odessa, the Cradle of Modern Greece: On the Secret Origins of Filiki Eteria]
International Conference "Activité révolutionnaire et sociétés secrètes en Europe: La Philiki Eteria"
University of Ioannina & Municipality of Nikolaus Skoufas, Arta - Komboti (Greece), 26-27 July 2014
Paper: "The Ghost of Empire? Reinterpreting the European Union"
SIHN Workshop "Nation and Empire in the Age of Internationalism"
University of Sydney, 21 July 2014
Paper: "Family Matters: The Diplomacy of Peace after the Congress of Vienna"
Cultures of Diplomacy Workshop
University of Sydney, 16-18 July 2014
Conference: "The Power of Peace: New Perspectives on the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)"
Organized by David Armitage and Stella Ghervas
Center for European Studies & Harvard International and Global History Seminar
Harvard University, 11 April 2014, 2:00-6:00 pm
Paper: "‘Peace is for the Strong, War is for the Weak’: The Congress of Vienna as
an Instrument of Power"
Conference "The Power of Peace: New Perspectives on the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)"
Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 11 April 2014, 2:00-6:00 pm
Paper: "Balance of Power vs. Perpetual Peace: Paradigms of European Order
from Utrecht to Vienna, 1713-1815"
Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS)
Harvard University, CGIS-South (1730 Cambridge Street), room S-050, 26 March 2014, 4.00 PM
Paper: "Is ‘Empire’ Resurrected or Defeated? Reinterpreting the EU"
21st International Conference of Europeanists
Washington D.C., 14-16 March 2014
Workshop: "Languages and Practices of Democracy in Greece c. 1750-1860"
"Re-Imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1750-1860"
Oxford University, Athens, 10-11 January 2014
Paper: "Can a European Peace System Be an Antidote to a Continental Empire?
The Congress System as an Experiment"
Interdisciplinary Conference "EUtROPEs. The Paradox of European Empire", University of Chicago
University of Chicago Center in Paris, 5-7 December 2013
Paper: "How To Build a Peaceful European System? Paradoxes and Lessons from
the post-Napoleonic order"
Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe, Center for European Studies
Harvard University, 20 November 2013, 12.15 PM
Paper: "Utrecht's Legacy and the Plans of Perpetual Peace: An Ex-post Historical Critique"
Conference "The Art of Peace Making", 100 Years Peace Palace & 300 Years Peace of Utrecht
Utrecht University, 19 September & Peace Palace, The Hague, 20 September 2013
Paper: "Philhellenism and Russian Ambitions in the Context of the Eastern Question"
International Conference "L'intérêt pour la Grèce et les Grecs, de 1821 à aujourd'hui"
University of Ioannina & Municipality of Nikolaus Skoufas, Arta (Greece), 5-7 July 2013
Paper: "Looking up to Brussels? National Imaginaries and Their Relation to Political Europe"
20th International Conference of Europeanists
Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013
"Does Memory Matter to the European Union's Future?"
Book Panel, 20th International Conference of Europeanists
Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013
"European projects in the time of Mazzini"
Conference: "The Empire: an Experience of European Construction? The Post-imperial Plans"
University of Luxembourg, 29-30 May 2013
Lecture: "Europe and Peace: from Passion to Indifference"
International Club of Philosophy, Bordeaux, 25 April 2013, 8.00 PM
Paper: "‘Enlarged Europe’ after 1989: Reorienting our Thinking"
7th Annual Talks on European identity Regional Identity - European Identity
City Council of Nice and European Institute of Nice (IE-EI)
Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen, Nice, 8-9 April 2013
Lecture: "Peace in Europe: from Chimera to the EU"
Cercle des amitiés internationales - Rencontres du Lundi, Villa Rigot, Geneva
25 March 2013, 6.00 PM
Lecture: "Is Europe only an Idea?"
23ème Carrefour de la Pensée, Palais des congrès et de la culture, Le Mans (France)
15 March 2013, 2.00 PM
Paper: "The Holy Alliance, a 'European Construction' as an Antidote to Empire"
Workshop "L'Empire, une expérience de construction européenne? Les projets post-impériaux"
University of Luxembourg, 7 December 2012
Paper: L’Europe élargie : du rêve de l’Union parfaite aux interrogations identitaires
(Enlarged Europe: from Hopes of a Perfect Union to Identity Issues)
6th Talks on European identity Globalization and European Identity
City Council of Nice and European Institute of Nice (IE-EI)
Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen, Nice (France), 12-13 March 2012
Lecture Democracy and European Values: Between Ideal, Speech-making, and Reality
Institut of Philosophy of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences & Rethinking Democracy - Kyiv Club
Kiev (Ukraine), November 4, 2011
Lecture "Legaturile epistolare ale lui Alexandru Sturdza" (The Epistolary Network of Alexander Sturdza)
and participation in a round-table discussion on Sturdza, organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) of Chisinau, University of Chisinau (Moldova), October 10-11, 2011
Lecture "Y a-t-il une Europe orthodoxe? La reconfiguration d'un espace géopolitique à la périphérie de la Russie et de l'Occident, XIXe-XXe siècles" (Is there an Orthodox Europe? The reconfiguration of a geopolitical space at the periphery of Russia and the Occident, 19th-20th centuries)
University of Fribourg (Switzerland), October 7, 2011
Lecture Empire or Alliance of Kings? A comparison between the European Visions of Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I
Modern France Workshop, University of Chicago,
Chicago, June 3, 2011
Keynote address "How far from Europe? Romanian Society between Orthodoxy and Modernity"
Annual Conference of Russian and East European Institute
Indiana University, Bloomington, 25th March 2011
Lecture: Locuri ale Europei: centre şi periferii
Colloque international "Românii între frontierele imperiale", panel "Centru şi periferie în istoria românilor: modele, transferuri, interacţiuni"
Faculté d'Histoire et de Philosophie, Université d'Etat de Moldavie
Chişinău (Moldova), October 8-9, 2010
Lecture introducing the round table “Europe: where is it? What is it? How can we recognize it?”
for the release in Serbian of the book Lieux d’Europe: mythes et limites (directed by Stella Ghervas et François Rosset),
translated by Olja Petronić and Snežana Spasojević, Belgrade, Biblioteka XX vek, 2010.
Belgrade (Serbia), Centre culturel français, September 24, 2010
Lecture introducing the round table "Où est l'Europe?" on the occasion of the release in Macedonian of the book Lieux d’Europe: mythes et limites (directed by Stella Ghervas et François Rosset)
Skopje (Macedonia), Centre français de coopération "Jean Monnet", September 23, 2010
Lecture: Refugiaţii greci din Noua Rusie şi Basarabia în timpul războiului grec de independenţă: despre originile asistenţei umanitare(Greek refugees of New Russia and Bessarabia during the Greek independence war: at the origins of humanitarian aid),
Russian-Romanian Symposium “Relaţiile Rusiei cu România şi ţările din Sud-Estul Europei, sec. XVIII-XX” (Relations of Russia with Romania and South-East European countries, 18th-20th centuries)
Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy (Bucharest) and Institute for Slavic Studies, Russian Academy (Moscow)
Bucharest (Romania), Casa Academiei, September 15, 2010
Lecture: L'"Europe élargie" : redécouverte d’une topographie mentale
Journée de la recherche en Relations internationales "Mondialisation, Occident et Europe"
Centre Panthéon, Salle des Conseils, 75005 Paris
June 12, 2010, 9.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Seminar Quelles voies pour l'Europe politique après le traité de Lisbonne?
(What are the prospects for political Europe after the Treaty of Lisbon?)
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
June 11, 2010, 9.00 AM - 1.00 PM
Lecture: "Enlarged Europe": an Epistemological Necessity?
Colloque international "Système-monde et Etats semi-périphériques"
Institut d'Histoire de l'Académie des Sciences de Moldavie, Faculté d'Histoire et de Philosophie de l'Université de Moldavie, Université "Federico II" de Naples, IEA-Paris
Chişinău, Juin 2-3, 2010
Seminar L'Europe politique: des idéaux à la mise en œ uvre
(Political Europe: from ideals to their application)
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
7th May 2010, 9.00 AM - 1.00 PM
Seminar Elites de l'Europe: nationales et/ou "européennes"?
(Elites in Europe: are they national and / or truly European?)
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
14th April 2010, 9.00 AM - 1.00 PM
Seminar L'Europe élargie: unis dans la diversité ou séparés dans l'Union?
(Enlarged Europe: "unity in diversity" or "disparity within a Union"?)
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
31th March 2010, 9.00 AM - 1.00 PM
Lecture: Y a-t-il une Europe orthodoxe? La nouvelle géopolitique d'un espace aux marges de la Russie et de l'Occident (1815-1854)
dans le cadre du séminaire de l'EHESS Histoire comparée de l’Europe centrale, de 1700 à nos jours. États, populations, identités et territoires, dirigé par Marie-Elisabeth Ducreux, Christine Lebeau et Antoine Marès
Institut d'études slaves, 9 rue Michelet 75006 Paris, salle de conférences
9 December 2009, 5.30-7.30 PM
Journée d’études De l’esprit des Lumières à l’"esprit de Lisbonne"
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
19 November 2009, 9.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Lecture: Hippocrate au féminin: les premières étudiantes de médecine en Europe
4èmes Entretiens autour de l'identité européenne La femme dans l'identité européenne
Institut européen des hautes études internationales (IEHEI), Mairie de Nice
Auditorium de la Bibliothèque Louis Nucéra, Nice, 9-10 November 2009
Lecture: De l'Alliance des rois à l'union des Etats: pour une généalogie de l'unification européenne, de 1815 à nos jours
dans le cadre du Séminaire d'études européennes, dirigé par Emmanuelle Boulineau et Cécile Robert
Collegium de Lyon et Ecole normale supérieure, Lyons, ENS LSH, room F 106
3 November 2009, 9.00-12.00 AM
Seminar Les valeurs de l’Europe politique : trait d’union ou pomme de discorde ?
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
27 October 2009, 2.00-6.00 PM
Seminar Le traité de Versailles et la Société des nations: quel bilan pour l'Europe d'aujourd'hui?
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
8 octobre 2009, 1.15-5.00 PM
Exposé: Les Grecs de Nouvelle Russie dans l’échiquier de la "question d’Orient"
Xe Congrès international d’études sud-est européennes
Paris, EHESS, 24-26 September 2009
Cours: Histoire de la mer Noire: du Pont Euxin à nos jours
Université d'été européenne La région de la Mer Noire et l'Union européenne
Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE)
Vadul lui Voda, 17-24 September 2009
Cours: Mer Noire: jusqu'où va l'Europe à l'Est?
Université d'été européenne La région de la Mer Noire et l'Union européenne
Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE)
Vadul lui Voda, 17-24 September 2009
Event around the book Réinventer la tradition. Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance,
with lectures by Igor Caşu, Andrei Cuşco, Emilian Galaicu Păun, Stella Ghervas and Virgil Pâslariuc
Forum Plural and Librăria Cartier, Chişinău (Moldova)
17 September 2009, 6.00 PM
Lecture: La guerre de Crimée (1853-1856) et la "question d'Orient"
(The Crimea War and the Eastern Question)
Association gréco-suisse Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Association Hellas et Roma
Croisière Eynard en mer Noire
30 July 2009, 7.30 PM
Lecture: L'expansion russe en mer Noire et la fondation d'Odessa
(Russian expansion in the Black Sea and the founding of Odessa)
Association gréco-suisse Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Association Hellas et Roma
Croisière Eynard en mer Noire
29 July 2009, 7.00 PM
Seminar Relire 1815 pour lire l'Europe à 27 (Reassing 1815, to understand 27 country Europe)
Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Paris
30 June 2009, 2.15 PM - 6.00 PM
Lecture: Odessa, berceau de la Grèce moderne (Odessa, birthplace of modern Greece)
Association gréco-suisse Jean-Gabriel Eynard
Université de Genève, Uni-Mail, room MS 150
19 February 2009, 6.15 PM
Round table L'"identité européenne" en question (Reassessing European identity)
3^èmes Rencontres du livre de sciences humaines, Paris
Espace d'animation des Blancs-Manteaux, Salle Georges Canguilhem
48, rue Vieille du Temple, 75004 Paris
31 January 2009, 3.30-5.00 PM
Event around the book Lieux d'Europe. Mythes et limites (Places of Europe. Myths and Limits)
with lectures by Stella Ghervas and François Rosset
Cercle des amitiés internationales - Rencontres du Lundi, Villa Rigot, Geneva
26 January 2009, 6.00 PM
Lecture: Maistre versus Sturdza: A Controversy between "Two Secular Athletes" of Christianity
Fifth International Colloquium on Joseph de Maistre Joseph de Maistre: Reappraisals/Reconsidérations
University of Cambridge, 5th-6th December 2008
Lecture: Du héros national au héros européen: Alexandre Ier de Russie
3^èmes Entretiens autour de l'identité européenne Le Héros dans l'indentité européenne
Institut européen des hautes études internationales (IEHEI), City of Nice
Auditorium de la Bibliothèque Louis Nucéra, Nice, 30-31 October 2008
Lecture: Histoire de la Mer Noire, du Pont Euxin à nos jours
(History of the Black Sea, from Pontus Euxinus to Today)
Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE)
Université d'été de Moldavie La région de la Mer Noire dans la nouvelle Europe élargie
(The Region of the Black Sea in the New Enlarged Europe)
Chisinau, Vadul lui Voda, 23-30 June 2008
Lecture: Moldavie, fenêtre sur la Mer Noire (Moldavia, a Window on the Black Sea)
Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE)
Université d'été de Moldavie La région de la Mer Noire dans la nouvelle Europe élargie
(The Region of the Black Sea in the New Enlarged Europe)
Chisinau, Vadul lui Voda, 23-30 June 2008
Lecture: La valse des frontières: naissance de l'Europe politique
Cercle des amitiés internationales - Rencontres du Lundi, Villa Rigot, Geneva
28 April 2008, 18.30 (see programme)
Lecture: La Nouvelle Russie au XIXe siècle : un Eldorado oriental pour les Genevois ?
(New Russia in the XIXth century: an Eastern Eldorado for the citizens of Geneva?)
Musée des Suisses dans le Monde, Château de Penthes, Geneva
17 April 2008, 18.30
Lecture: La "nouvelle Europe": de la Sainte-Alliance au traité de Lisbonne
International Colloquium: Représentations de l’Europe : convergences et divergences
Faculty of Philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyons, 7 March 2008
International Colloquium: Représentations de l’Europe : convergences et divergences
(Representations of Europe: affinities and differences)
Faculty of Philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyons, 7-8 March 2008
(see programme)
Lecture: Иммиграция из Юго-Восточной Европы в Одессу в XIX веке (Immigration from South-Eastern Europe in Odessa during the XIXth century)
International conference: Миграция, эмиграция и иммиграция в странах Центральной и Юго-Восточной Европы в XIX–XX вв. Проблемы национальной идентичности и адаптации (Migrations, emigrations, immigrations in Eastern and South-Eastern countries in the XIXth and XXth centuries. National identity and integration)
Institute of Slavic Studies, Science Academy of Russia, Moscow, 13-14 November 2007
Lecture: Quelles valeurs pour faire rêver les Européens?
2^èmes Entretiens autour de l'identité européenne Existe-t'il un imaginaire européen?
Institut européen des hautes études internationales (IEHEI), Nice
City of Nice
Auditorium de la Bibliothèque Louis Nucéra, Nice, 25-26 October 2007
Lecture: Le philhellénisme russe : union d'amour ou d'intérêt ?
(Russian Philhellenism: Love or Interest ?)
Conference Regards sur le philhellénisme
Salle des Abeilles, Palais de l'Athénée, Geneva
28 septembre 2007, 17.00
Lecture: Odessa et Genève au XIXe siècle: regards croisés
Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Genève (SHAG), Palais de l'Athénée,
19 October 2006, 20.30
Lecture: Studenţi din Sud-Estul European în universităţile europene 1800-1880 (South-Estearn European students in European universities, 1800-1880)
Russo-Romanian Conference: Relaţiile Rusiei cu România şi ţările din Sud-Estul Europei, sec. XVIII-XX (Russia's relations with Romania and South-Eastern European countries, 18th-20th centuries)
Institute for South-East European Studies, Academy of Sciences, Bucharest
Institute for Slavic Studies, Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Casa Academiei, Bucharest, 3 October 2006
Lecture: Odessa au XIXe siècle : rêves d'Europe et d'Orient
Cercle des amitiés internationales - Rencontres du lundi, Geneva, Villa Rigot,
20 March 2006, 18.30 (see programme)
Voyage au pays des mystiques : Roxandre Stourdza dans les cours allemandes de la Restauration
International conference « Voyager en Europe du Consulat aux Restaurations. Contraintes nationales et tentations cosmopolites », Strasbourg, January 2006
Théologie politique et diplomatie russe du Congrès de Vienne au traité d'Andrinople
Ier Congrès international de l'Association roumaine d'études religieuses (ARSR), Bucarest, December 2005
Lecture: Une "Nouvelle Europe"? La vision géopolitique du tsar Alexandre Ier à l'époque du Congrès de Vienne
Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI), Geneva, 25 November 2005, 12.30 (affiche)
Lecture: Les «vertus politiques» des eaux thermales: Capodistrias à Ems (1826)
(avec A. Franceschetti)
Société française d'histoire de l'ophtalmologie (SFHO), Paris, 19 November 2005, 14.30
Les valeurs peuvent-elles fonder un imaginaire européen ?
Colloque international « Les imaginaires européens », Cluj (Roumanie), September 2005
Spas' "political virtues" : Capodistria at Ems (1826)
3rd Meeting of the International Society for the History of Medecine « Water and Medicine », Patra (Greece), September 2005
Lecture : Le philhellénisme russe et la question d’Orient
Université de Geneva (Bastions B 112), 12 May 2005 19.00.
Colloque international Lieux d’Europe
Château de Coppet, Geneva, 18-19 March 2005
Odessa, une ville aux confins de l’Europe
Colloque international « Lieux d’Europe », château de Coppet, Geneva, 18-19 March 2005
Philhellénisme conservateur et diplomatie russe dans l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance
IXe Congrès international d’études sud-est européennes, Tirana (Albania), September 2004
Etudiants du Sud-Est européen dans les universités suisses et allemandes: état de recherches en Roumanie
Colloque international «Etudiants sans frontières: Migrations universitaires en Europe avant 1945», château de Coppet, Geneva, June 2003
La réception de « L'Esprit des lois » en Russie: histoire de quelques ambiguïtés
Colloque international «Le Temps de Montesquieu», University of Geneva, November 1999
Alexandru Sturza ou la quête de l’espace orthodoxe
VIIIe Congrès international d’études sud-est européennes «Le Sud-Est Européen à la veille du XXIe siècle», Bucarest, August 1999
Traditie si modernizare în Rusia si Europa de Sud-Est (1800-1850)
Institutul de Studii Sud-Est Europene, Academia Româna, Bucarest, 1995
Alexandru Sturdza si Mihail Kogalniceanu – câteva precizàri la istoria unei relatii
XVIIIe Congrès international de l’Académie roumano-américaine «Moldova: deschideri culturale si stiintifice spre Vest», Kichinev, 1993