28 January – 4 November

Art, a Universal Language

Free, Booking Required

Leonor Cuahonte, PhD in Art History, leads a five-lecture series on modern and contemporary art, with research focusing on twentieth‑century movements and gender in art.

Across five sessions she examines the movements that birthed modernity, profiles pivotal artists from Matisse to Warhol, and investigates the rising recognition of women artists from Frida Kahlo onward, revealing thematic continuities and shifts in style and cultural significance.

Dates & Topics:
Tuesday 28 January, 19:00 – Art Nouveau – Art Deco
Tuesday 25 March, 19:00 – Elles – Women Painters, Sculptors, Architects
Tuesday 6 May, 19:00 – Pop Art Icons – Warhol, Koons, and Hockney
Tuesday 16 September, 19:00 – 100 Years Ago – Matisse, Mondrian, Magritte
Tuesday 4 November, 19:00 – Frida Kahlo and the Tradition of the Day of the Dead

In French.

Boulevard des Promenades 2,
1227 Carouge Genève

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Photo Credit: DR

7 April – 30 June

Create a Bibliography with Librarians

Lectures & Workshops

Bibliothèque de Genève

This session offers personalised research support from professional librarians to help develop accurate bibliographies for exams and assignments. Librarians guide selection of authoritative sources, citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago), database searching strategies, and reference-management techniques. Participants learn to structure references, apply citation norms consistently, evaluate sources critically, manage citations with digital tools, and streamline literature searches to enhance academic writing and citation accuracy.

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Tuesday 14 April, 14:15

Wearing Your Religion: How Labor Markets Price Visible Identity

Lectures & Workshops

Maison de la Paix

Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi University) presents experimental research examining how visible religious identity—women’s headscarves and men’s Islamic beards—affects labor market outcomes in Indonesia. Using a large job portal and incentivized resume rating experiments with employers and job seekers, the study finds that displaying religious symbols reduces employer ratings and interview probability, with similar penalties for headscarves and beards. It also reveals employers’ biased trait assessments and job seekers’ limited awareness of these penalties.

In English.

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Tuesday 14 April, 18:30

Does Humanitarian Work Have a Future?

Lectures & Workshops

Maison de la Paix

Filippo Grandi, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, reflects on the future of humanitarian action amid protracted conflicts, mass displacement, shrinking access and shifting geopolitics. Joined in conversation by Minhua Ling, Associate Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and students Suraya Yosufi and Jennifer Siaw, he examines how humanitarian principles can be upheld while adapting to new challenges. The discussion is introduced by Marie‑Laure Salles and Leo Colonnello.

In English.

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Wednesday 15 April, 10:00

Literary Encounters: Borges and the 20th Century

Lectures & Workshops

Maison Rousseau

Catarina von Wedemeyer, Maître d’enseignement et de recherche at the University of Geneva, is a specialist in Latin American literatures. She held a Humboldt fellowship at Columbia University and is author of Offene Dialektik.

This bilingual series examines Borges’ key stories in relation to twentieth‑century movements such as ultraism and fantastic literature, debating New Historicism and universality. Sessions offer comparative readings with Victoria Ocampo, Silvana Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and address poetic analysis and Borges’ cultural interests.

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28 January – 23 December

Create Your Own Rousseau-Style Herbarium

Lectures & Workshops

Jardin botanique

This workshop explores the traditional process of assembling a herbarium specimen, inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s collections. Participants learn scientific techniques for pressing and mounting dried plants on old paper, practice botanical labelling and nomenclature, and select specimens to create a personal herbarium sheet. The session examines preservation methods, identification principles and the historical context of Rousseau’s approach, combining practical skills with scientific insight to produce a lasting botanical object.

In French.

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Thursday 15 April, 18:30

AI in Diplomacy: Opportunities, Risks, and Institutional Readiness

Lectures & Workshops

Maison de la Paix

Peter Maurer, President of the Basel Institute on Governance; Claude Bruderlein (Harvard University); and Karin Voodla (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia) join a panel moderated by Jérôme Duberry, Director of Tech Hub. The discussion explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping diplomatic practices, institutional capacities and global cooperation. Speakers examine opportunities for data-driven analysis and policy support, alongside risks such as overreliance, erosion of human judgement and challenges to building trust. The session investigates institutional readiness and governance responses to ensure responsible, human-centred use of AI.

In English.

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