Alex Hanimann and Stéphane Malfettes, director of Festival La Bâtie, bring perspectives from museum and festival programming on culture’s role in urban life.
This discussion examines how cultural practices, institutions, creation and mediation contribute to constructing a common territory, exploring how culture forges social ties, makes neighbourhoods legible and transforms places into shared experiences through participatory and experimental approaches.
In French.
Paul André Demierre, musicologist and author of Les opéras napolitains de Rossini, examines Rossini’s engagement with Neapolitan opera and his influence on the city’s musical life.
This lecture explores the compositional traits, thematic priorities and cultural context of Rossini’s Neapolitan operas, analysing how local traditions shaped his style and why these works matter for understanding 19th-century Italian opera, and implications for performance practice today.
In French.
An academic workshop examining the conceptual history of democracy in Switzerland from the early modern period to the late nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the final third of the eighteenth century through 1874. It investigates how multiple conceptions of democracy, including assembly, representative and semi-direct forms, were assembled, negotiated and transformed amid foreign wars, internal conflicts and rising nationalism.
In French & German.
Explore submerged aquatic vegetation and the ecosystems they sustain in Lake Geneva. This session examines submerged meadows as vital underwater habitats, detailing how they function, which emblematic species inhabit them, and their role in nutrient cycles and habitat provision. Participants learn to identify key plants, understand their ecological importance as biodiversity hotspots and bioindicators of water quality, and gain insight into how these communities reflect and influence the lake’s environmental health.
In French.
Designed for emerging professionals and recent graduates, this workshop explores puppetry through the creation of a short performance. Four to five young artists are supported through a guided process from idea to stage, with mentorship in direction, dramaturgy and construction. Participants develop a compact work presented at a public work-in-progress showcase. The programme also offers the chance to win a fully funded four-week training placement in 2027 at Odradek, near Toulouse.
In French.
Ma thèse en 180 secondes (MT180) is a competitive format in which doctoral candidates present their research concisely and accessibly. Participants must summarise complex projects in three minutes, sharpening communication skills and clarifying core findings for a general audience. The session showcases diverse doctoral topics and offers insight into research methods, central questions and societal relevance. It highlights the ability to translate specialist work for non-specialists.
In French.
Lara Ternovsky, project manager for anti-discrimination at Dialogai, and Fabrice Brandli, lecturer in general history at the University of Geneva and specialist of the Enlightenment, bring experience in LGBTIQ+ advocacy and historical scholarship.
They discuss how Rousseau’s writings, notably Book V of Émile, continue to shape heteronormative discourses and the contested interpretations within feminist and queer studies. The dialogue examines processes of (de)naturalization of gender identities, conditions for social inclusion, public esteem, equality and freedom, and their relevance for democratic justice.
In French.
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