Convenor Roles
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Workshop // International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion conference
2022: Uses of Switzerland in Privileged Transnational Life Courses
with A.-S. Delval
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Forum // funded by BAICE and ESRC
2020: Diaspora and Internationalisation in Higher Education
with A. Bamberger, T. Kim, P. Morris and F. Rizvi
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Workshop // International Standing Conference for the History of Education: Pre-Conference
2019: Who ‘Speaks’ and for Whom? Approaches to Working with Autobiographical Materials in History of Education Research
with L. Riettiens and L. Matzer
Invited Talks
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University of Lausanne
2024: Educational Geographies of the World’s Wealthiest: Global Billionaires at Elite American Universities
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University of Münster
2022: The Americanization of Elite Education in Switzerland
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University of Copenhagen
2022: Elite Education and the Making of a Global Elite
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University of Hamburg
2021: On Interdisciplinarity: Combining Different Approaches in Doctoral Work
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University of Zurich
2020: Changing to Stay the Same: Elite Schooling in the Swiss Alps During the 20th Century
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Stockholm University
2019: Challenging Assumptions about Transnational Class: The Continued Importance of the Nation-State
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Humboldt University
2019: Of the Global and the Local: Multi-layered Belongings at an Elite School
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Uppsala University
2018: From the Political to the Neoliberal to an Open Question of the Transnational: The Changing Rationale Behind an Elite Boarding School
Selected Conferences and Workshops
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Elite Schools: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (LSE)
2024: Revisiting ‘The Complex Ethics of Elite Studies Research’
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Gender and Elites in Britain (Univ. of Oxford)
2022: Portable Status? The Intersection of Gender, Race and Wealth when Global Elites Move to the Metropole
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Wealth: Sociological and Historical Perspectives (MPIfG)
2022: Citizens of the World? Or Rather, National Citizens in a World Economy?
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European Conference on Educational Research
2019: Emplaced Within and Beyond the Nation-state: Exploring Students' Narratives at an Economically Elite Boarding School in Switzerland
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American Educational Research Association
2019: In the Nation’s Service: The Founding of an Elite American School in Switzerland
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British Educational Research Association
2018: Configurations of Capital: Can Social Capital be Translated from the National to the Transnational?
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International Standing Conference for the History of Education
2018: From an Alpine Elite to the World and the Wealthy: Examining the Historical Trajectory of a Secondary School in Switzerland
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Studies of Elites and Education: Fresh Directions and Connections (UCL)
2017: Articulating Sociological and Historical Approaches: A Proposed Way to Critically Revisit Questions about Global Class Formation