Joachim Berger speaks in a guest lecture at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He is research coordinator at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz, and is on secondment to the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg from 2025 to 2027.
In an age of nationalism, colonialism and culture wars, how should the ideal of a universal brotherhood of mankind be realised? In his talk, Joachim Berger will explore how Masonic national associations promoted or opposed the formation of a worldwide organisation of their ‘brotherhood’. Ultimately, the transnational efforts before and after the First World War ended up amplifying the differences they set out to overcome. The main causes of controversy were whether freemasonry should have a religious or secular basis, and what socio-political causes, such as charity or peacekeeping, it should support.
Place: Auditorium A2, Pétale 2, Maison de la paix, Genève, Switzerland
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