Events

On 17 January 2012, the DDS - in collaboration with the Swiss Helsinki Committee for Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights and foraus Forum de politique étrangère - organised a thematic evening event on the role the Swiss diplomacy played during the Conference and in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE/OSCE).

Flyer Event Käfigturm

On november 11th and 12th, the DDS were invited at the THATCamp in Lausanne. «The Humanities and Technology Camp» was organised by infoclio.ch, hist.net and Histoire et informatique. Its purpose was to facilitate a free and informal exchange between different actors on how to use and deal with electronic resources in the field of history.

Im Rahmen eines Methodenseminars sind Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden der Conférence universitire de Suisse occidentale bei den DDS zu Besuch. Die Tagung mit dem Titel «Relations internationales de la Suisse au XXe siècle» findet am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober in den Räumlichkeiten des Bundesarchivs in Bern, am Freitag, 14. Oktober im Institut de hautes études internationales in Genf statt.

In 2011, the American equivalent to the DDS, the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions, called «Foreign Relations of the United States» (FRUS), celebrates its 150th anniversary. The series of the FRUS is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and is thus a governmental research institute. The project is based on a law that calls for a «thorough, accurate, and reliable» documentary record of United States foreign policy.