How to Navigate and Succeed in Academia

Prof. Dr. Diego Acosta

22 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Online (Webex link)

This course is organized by the nccr – on the move. It is tailored for PhD students and PostDocs but we welcome all members of the NCCR community and doctoral students enrolled in a CUSO program to join us.

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Reforming the British Empire: Space, Place and Mobilities of People, Capital and Ideas in the Global Restructuring of the British Empire

Public Lecture

Alan Lester, University of Sussex
Discussant: Sara de Athouguia Filipe, University of Neuchâtel,
nccr – on the move

Thursday, 16 October 2025, 16:15 – 17:45 CET

This talk will be held at the University of Neuchâtel, Espace Tilo-Frey 1, Room R.O.12 and on WEBEX (link).

Program PDF

This lecture is co-organised with the Institut d’histoire, within the framework of the project Sea and Air-Border Formation in the Interwar Middle East: A Trans-Imperial and Spatial Perspective.

A Hundred Years from Weber: Science as Vocation and the Resurgence of National Populism

Public Lecture Series

Alejandro Portes, Princeton University and University of Miami

Thursday, 23 October 2025, 18:00 – 19:30 CET

This talk will be held on WEBEX.

Program PDF

The Precariat: How Migration is Shaping the Dangerous Class

Public Lecture

Guy Standing, SOAS University of London
Discussant: Eric Crettaz, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, nccr – on the move

Thursday, 30 October 2025, 18:00 – 19:30 CET

This talk will be held at the University of Neuchâtel, Av. du Premier-Mars 26, Room D63 and on WEBEX (link).

Program PDF