22nd January – University of Nantes (France). Research seminar “Sportnaouka. Soviet Presence in International Sport from 1945 to the Present”. Session I: “The installation of the Soviets in international federations”. UNIL Chairman: Patrick Clastres. Title: “The entry of the USSR into the IOC. The first confidential debates from 1942 onwards”. UNIL keynote: Florence Carpentier.
15th March – Lausanne University and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany). Workshop “The IOC Elites Process of Cooptation“. UNIL keynotes: Patrick Clastres, Florence Carpentier. Münster keynotes: Daphné Bolz, Michael Krüger, Emanuel Hübner.
29th March – Lausanne University and the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). Workshop “The Brazilian IOC members”. UNIL keynotes: Patrick Clastres, Florence Carpentier, Helena Klima. Brazilian keynotes: Lívia Magalhães (Universidade Federal Fluminense/Institute of History), Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui (Instituto Federal de Brasília), Bernardo Buarque (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, CPDOC).
11th May – Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany). Workshop “The German IOC members”. UNIL keynotes: Patrick Clastres, Helena Klima. Münster keynotes: Daphné Bolz, Michael Krüger, Emanuel Hübner.
