As an integral part of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the Maison de la Paix houses various lecture facilities and an auditorium. It actively fosters synergies that drive innovative solutions to promote peace, human security, and sustainable development.
Diversity Month is an annual programme that invites the Geneva Graduate Institute community and wider public to reflect on the many meanings of diversity. Through screenings, panel discussions, and shared community moments, the series opens space for dialogue, learning, and connection. It highlights different perspectives and experiences while encouraging everyone to take part in a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere. Individual events are listed separately, with their own dates and times.
Diego Känzig, Assistant Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, presents new research at the intersection of climate economics and macroeconomics. He examines how global temperature increases affect mortality by tracing both direct effects and indirect economic pathways, including impacts on labour, health systems and economic resilience. The lecture explores empirical methods and policy-relevant implications, offering insights on how warming translates into human costs and what this means for economic modelling and public policy.
In English.
The Geneva Challenge is an international competition launched by the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2014, thanks to the vision and generosity of Ambassador Jenö Staehelin and the patronage of the late Kofi Annan. This contest brings together graduate students from diverse disciplinary and contextual perspectives to provide innovative and pragmatic solutions to some of the world’s complex challenges.
Julie Benzoni, Manon Heurtel and Jérôme Prouvost’s documentary The Tradwives of America examines the recent rise of the #Tradwife movement through intimate portraits and testimony. Focusing on Solie and Andre, a practising Catholic couple, and Enitza, a former tradwife who left after ten years and four children, the film probes how online conservatism shapes domestic ideals and challenges women’s autonomy. Concise and observational (25 min), it navigates ideology, family intimacy and the emotional costs of prescribed gender roles.
Swiss wildlife photographer Michel Roggo presents a photographic study of Lake Geneva’s hidden underwater ecosystems, from glacial headwaters to the harbour. Through large-format images and immersive compositions, Roggo reveals the lake’s ecological dynamics, the health and climatic challenges it faces, and the delicate biological balances sustaining aquatic life. The series balances scientific observation with poetic framing, inviting reflection on conservation and the fragile interdependence of species within freshwater environments.
Opening: 16 November
Manas: Making Visible the Invisible navigates the fragile coming-of-age of thirteen-year-old Marcielle in an isolated riverside community on Marajó Island. Built from years of testimonies and interviews, the film adopts a documentary-rooted, intimate approach to reveal hidden gender-based violence, structural oppression and patriarchal systems across Latin America. The narrative blends real voices and lyrical realism to trace resilience, memory and the social forces that shape childhood, offering a restrained but powerful cinematic meditation on visibility and ethics.
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