Author Victor Dixen presents and signs copies of Les mystères d’Eversand (volumes 1 and 2), offering insights into the world, themes and narrative choices behind the saga. The presentation highlights the linked novels La suivante and La promise (Robert Laffont, April 2026), discussing motifs, character development and the author’s approach to suspense and imagination. A presentation is followed by a signing session.
In French.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This academic meeting is a discussion of the volume The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire, bringing together scholars to examine recent historiographical developments in the late Ottoman period and its legacies. The book offers a wide-ranging synthesis of current research, covering political, social, and cultural transformations from the late Ottoman Empire through its post-imperial aftermath. The event focuses on how recent scholarship has reinterpreted key themes such as nationalism, violence, state formation, and imperial collapse, while also highlighting new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the region.
In French and English.
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