Alexia Benakis presents her work and discusses the themes and creative processes behind her writing. Through a short presentation and exchange with the audience, she examines narrative choices, character development and the cultural contexts that inform her stories. The session includes a reading excerpt and a signing, offering insight into Benakis’s research, influences and artistic approach. Participants can ask questions and engage directly with the author.
In French.
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.
This interactive memory challenge invites participants to test their memory while exploring practical ways to preserve biodiversity based on Geneva’s municipal strategy. Players match “before-and-after” images that illustrate individual and institutional actions, and each correct pair reveals concise information explaining the measure. The activity examines themes such as habitat restoration, species-friendly practices, urban greening and policy responses, helping participants understand the impact and rationale behind everyday and organisational conservation choices.
This public lecture by Jacques-David Ebguy explores the idea of the Bildungsroman (the coming-of-age novel) and its limits, questioning whether the genre can exist fully in its “ideal” form. It examines how literary narratives of formation negotiate tensions between individual development, social constraints, and narrative closure. Through a critical approach to modern and contemporary literature, the talk reflects on the structural impossibility or fragility of the classical model of the coming-of-age story.
In French.
This event explores verse craft in English literary history. It includes a lecture by Dr Sawyer, a Q&A session, and an interactive workshop where participants reflect on their work in relation to verse history and literary craft. Drawing on Middle English poetry, the session highlights both lasting innovations—like rhyme and Chaucer’s meter—and forgotten experiments. Open to anyone interested in literary craft across periods.
In English.
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.
Juliette Faure, professor of political science at the University of Lille and researcher at CERAPS, examines the emergence of a Russian “modernizing conservatism” that fuses religious traditionalism with advocacy of technological modernity. Drawing on archival research, interviews and fieldwork, she traces its roots in late Soviet intellectual formations and shows how this ideology helped legitimize authoritarian and expansionist policies. The talk draws on the career of journalist Aleksandr Prokhanov to illustrate processes of theorization and diffusion.
In French.
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