Giorgio Ennas at international conference Diplomatic Interior

We are proud to announce that recently one of our post-doctoral researchers Giorgio Ennas participated in a roundtable entitled Archival Research within the international conference Diplomatic Interiors: Spaces, Practices, and Infrastructures in Historical Perspective, hosted between 19 and 21 November 2025 by the GTA Institute (ETH Zurich) and the CDHM (Geneva Graduate Institute) (https://diplomaticinteriors.ethz.ch/).

Organized by Andreas Kalpakci, Charlotte Rottiers, and Davide Rodogno, Diplomatic Interiors aimed to explore the historical relationships existing between interior spaces and diplomacy. In doing this, the organizers invited researchers from different disciplines to examine how settings such as embassy buildings, permanent chancelleries, and temporary conference venues have been shaped over time by social, technological, and material infrastructures in support of diplomatic representation, negotiation and collaboration.

In the prestigious setting of the United Nations building in Geneva, Ennas explained how diplomatic and consular archives in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, can make an important contribution not only to the History of Diplomacy, but also to the History of Medicine, International Relations, Cooperation, Architecture and Diplomatic Interiors as well. Through their descriptions of structures, buildings, interiors and diplomatic-consular practices, these archives can also teach us a great deal about the peculiar nature of international relations.