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In November 2025, Nhi Yen Le participated in the Conference Junior - Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750-2000) for PhD candidates and early career scholars with encouraging dialogue, thematic panels, and case-study comparisons in historical and other social scientific approaches. The colloquium was organized by the Centre for History (CHSP), Sciences Po, and co-funded by Sciences Po School of Research and the Centre for History and Economics in Paris. There Nhi Yen Le presented her paper "Immigrant Workers from French Former Colonies: Vietnamese Migrant Associations and French Labor Unions within the context of EEC”.

In September 2025, Nhi Le and Selina Breitbach joined the Summer School of Migration Studies in Prague, hosted by GEOMigrace at the Faculty of Science of Charles University and the International Organization for Migration Czechia. The interdisciplinary programme focused on human migration and its impact on development and social change from the perspectives of geopolitics, sociology, history, economics, and demography. The summer school brought together young professionals, researchers, and students from more than forty countries for discussions on migration through workshops and lectures.

The project co-hosted a workshop to discuss different approaches to migration research and teaching, in conjunction with the Research Group on Migration, Minorities, and Diversity at the University of Oslo. Selina Breitbach presented "Last stop Munich: The role of Germany’s social welfare organisations in migrant integration after World War II" and Nhi Le presented "Commerce and cohesion: Immigrants’ self-employment and social Integration in France."

The project welcomed Sophus Reinert of Harvard University for a workshop to discuss his book manuscript, Ragnarok. Ragnarok is a wide-ranging study which bridges intellectual and cultural history to examine the use of Norse mythology in extremist political movements in Norway as well as in Norwegian society at large. The focal point of the book is Norway's Ragnarok circle, a national socialist network organized around a journal with the same name published between 1934 and 1945. Commentators came from Trondheim, Oslo, and Bergen and worked across the fields of history, art history, political theory, and literature. The workshop bridged academic scholarship and public history with participation from the Falstad Center and the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies. Discussion ranged widely, touching on welfare policy, the geopolitics of natural resources, the emergence of cultural and racial hierarchies, and the political economy of war.