To mark its 50th anniversary, the Barbier-Mueller Museum opens the “50 years, 50 invitations” project with a conversation featuring writer and seasoned traveller Sylvain Tesson. The evening reflects on curiosity about world cultures and on the many ways human societies express their view of the world. It also forms part of a wider anniversary programme bringing together museums and cultural institutions through encounters, lectures and exchanges.
Jean-Louis Johannides leads CRU, an open urban research group that explores the rapidly changing Praille-Acacias-Vernets territory. The workshop gathers walks, observations and field collections to collaboratively compose a prospective narrative set in 2047. Participants will practise narrative-foresight methods and collective writing through field research, creative exercises and group discussion. Architect and doctoral researcher Clément Mathey contributes perspectives on collective narration and futures approaches.
In French.
Swiss producer Philippe Coeytaux, together with Etienne Daudin and Albin Lewi, joins this panel on the international potential of Swiss series. The discussion examines how local fiction and documentary projects can travel beyond Switzerland, drawing on industry perspectives from production, distribution, and market development.
It explores the role of strong IP, coproduction, financing, partnerships, and audience reach in building export-ready series. The session also introduces a new partnership around the SWISS SERIES label, designed to connect Swiss rights holders with international series professionals.
Gérard Haddad presents a book that extends his research on the Cain complex and examines the role of the Double in hatred of the other and in madness. Drawing on psychoanalysis and political philosophy, he investigates how this complex resurfaces on the political stage and what it reveals about contemporary violence. Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and essayist, Haddad studied with Jacques Lacan and has long worked at the intersection of clinical thought and political reflection.
Founded in 1995, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) is one of Geneva’s longest-standing cinema festivals and among the first in the world to integrate television into its programming. A hub for experimentation, encounters, and celebration, the ten-day festival presents films, series, and immersive audiovisual experiences to some 35,000 visitors each year. GIFF also hosts the Geneva Digital Market, Switzerland’s only meeting point for professionals in innovation and audiovisual content, and maintains year-round activities including school programmes and GIFF UNLIMITED events. Recognized as a key driver of Switzerland’s audiovisual sector, GIFF combines artistic ambition with international reach.
Pierre Zandrowicz, Emilie Valentin, Oriane Hurard and Marianne Levy-Leblond present Paradoxes, a case study developed by creators Maxime Donzel, Emilie Valentin and Pierre Zandrowicz. Their work examines how a series can be conceived and produced through a hybrid process combining live-action footage and generative AI tools.
The session explores the creative choices behind this audiovisual experiment, revealing how fiction is being rethought through new workflows, narrative forms and production methods. It addresses the implications of mixing human creativity with emerging technologies in contemporary series-making.
The Department of Ancient Studies at the Faculty of Humanities (UNIGE) is offering a series of public lectures dedicated to interactions, exchanges, and cultural dynamics in the ancient world. Faculty members and researchers will explore diplomatic relations, the movement of objects, religious and linguistic influences, and issues of identity at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the ancient Near East.
In French.
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