This audio exploration navigates the history and urban imaginaries of the Servette quarter, tracing how Geneva and its natural environment have shaped one another. Drawing on archival stories and vivid images — from ubiquitous seagulls to imagined mammoths and an era before the Salève existed — the series examines changing perceptions of landscape, memory, and urban identity, and investigates how myths and material change inform contemporary relationships with place.
In French.
Designed for emerging professionals and recent graduates, this workshop explores puppetry through the creation of a short performance. Four to five young artists are supported through a guided process from idea to stage, with mentorship in direction, dramaturgy and construction. Participants develop a compact work presented at a public work-in-progress showcase. The programme also offers the chance to win a fully funded four-week training placement in 2027 at Odradek, near Toulouse.
In French.
Paul André Demierre, musicologist and author of Les opéras napolitains de Rossini, examines Rossini’s engagement with Neapolitan opera and his influence on the city’s musical life.
This lecture explores the compositional traits, thematic priorities and cultural context of Rossini’s Neapolitan operas, analysing how local traditions shaped his style and why these works matter for understanding 19th-century Italian opera, and implications for performance practice today.
In French.
Explore submerged aquatic vegetation and the ecosystems they sustain in Lake Geneva. This session examines submerged meadows as vital underwater habitats, detailing how they function, which emblematic species inhabit them, and their role in nutrient cycles and habitat provision. Participants learn to identify key plants, understand their ecological importance as biodiversity hotspots and bioindicators of water quality, and gain insight into how these communities reflect and influence the lake’s environmental health.
In French.
An academic workshop examining the conceptual history of democracy in Switzerland from the early modern period to the late nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the final third of the eighteenth century through 1874. It investigates how multiple conceptions of democracy, including assembly, representative and semi-direct forms, were assembled, negotiated and transformed amid foreign wars, internal conflicts and rising nationalism.
In French & German.
Natacha Farina Groux moderates a roundtable bringing together researchers and practitioners to examine sound and emotion in humanitarian contexts. The discussion explores what sonic traces of aid persist, how voices convey feeling, who is heard and who is excluded, and the role of music within humanitarian practice. Panelists include Alain Dufaux, Didier Grandjean, Paul-Henri Arni, Manuela Filippa, Sarah-Joy Maddeaux, Alain Vincent Chardonnens and Elisa Rusca. The conversation accompanies the book Tuning In, Acoustics of Emotion.
In French.
Ma thèse en 180 secondes (MT180) is a competitive format in which doctoral candidates present their research concisely and accessibly. Participants must summarise complex projects in three minutes, sharpening communication skills and clarifying core findings for a general audience. The session showcases diverse doctoral topics and offers insight into research methods, central questions and societal relevance. It highlights the ability to translate specialist work for non-specialists.
In French.
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