Laboratories, research groups and projects

This project first addresses changes in the behaviour and lifestyles of individuals through new consumption practices in connection with culture, sport and public health policies promoted by the Chinese central authorities for the Olympic Games.

The historian Alexandre Elsig is a postdoctoral student at the CDH with an Ambizione grant from the SNSF. His project explores a large corpus of unpublished archives in order to understand what are the determining poles for the legitimization of knowledge concerning industrial toxicity in the 20th century.