This lecture explores musical composition for silent cinema, focusing on director and actress Musidora and the interpretive role of music in early film. Film-music specialists examine how scores are created, how motifs evoke emotion and support narrative, and the creative choices behind synchronising live sound with images. The session combines live performance, film excerpts and moderated discussion to reveal practical techniques and historical perspectives on scoring silent-era films.
Charlotte Casiraghi, president of the Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco and holder of a master’s degree in philosophy, presents La fêlure, her 2026 essay on human vulnerability. Drawing on philosophical reflection and literary sensibility, she explores how acknowledging our fragility can enable reinvention, self-acceptance or emancipation. The event examines key themes from the book and invites a reflective discussion moderated by Sarah Chiche.
In French.
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.
This roundtable examines how to reconstruct queer histories when archives are missing or silenced. It explores oral testimonies, activist and alternative archives, artistic practices, personal and fictional narratives, and the use of research methods and artificial intelligence to recover and preserve erased experiences. Panelists investigate how communities reframe historical records, challenge institutional silences, and create counter-archives that transmit memory across generations. The discussion highlights ethical and methodological issues in documenting marginalized pasts.
In French.
This summit examines how finance can be aligned with sustainability, convening stakeholders across finance, public authorities and international organisations to surface investable solutions. Through plenaries, interactive action events and a Solutions Stage of rapid pitches, it explores strategic alliances, high-impact partnerships and practical pathways for scaling sustainable investment. The programme investigates policy, regulatory and market levers that enable collaboration across private and public finance to mobilise capital for measurable systems change.
Elena Cogato Lanza, full professor at the Laboratory of Urbanism, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), draws on architectural and urban research to examine the urgent questions raised by energy, environmental, health and social transition. She investigates how dispersed, low-density urbanization remains dependent on cars and uses the Lake Geneva metropolitan area to show how architecture and planning can redefine the boundaries of the conceivable and sketch plausible futures.
In French.
The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy is pleased to invite you to Democracy Week 2026, a series of public events organised in collaboration with the Geneva Chancellery of State. Bringing together academics, policymakers, journalists, civil society actors and the wider public, this initiative creates a space for dialogue on the opportunities and challenges facing democracy today.
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