Eva Kirilof, a Belgian author and cultural mediator specializing in art history through a feminist lens, examines the life and work of Louise Breslau. Drawing on archival research and feminist critique, Kirilof explores how Breslau’s art was celebrated in her lifetime yet later marginalized, revealing themes of gender, professional networks and legacy. The presentation investigates the artist’s trajectory and offers critical perspectives to better understand her place in art history.
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 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 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.
Filmmaker and artist Randa Maroufi discusses how a film comes into being, from the first idea to the finished work. Drawing on visuals and production materials, she traces the development of her projects: encounters, gathered material, editorial choices, and the stages that shape each film. In conversation with Frank Westermeyer, artist, filmmaker, and head of the Prisma option in the Visual Arts department at HEAD – Geneva, she also reflects on sharing films with the people who took part in them and opens the discussion to the audience.
In French.
Caroline Guignard, deputy curator for graphic arts and precious books at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, and a specialist in Hodler’s graphic work, presents the artist through his 241 notebooks of notes and sketches. Conserved at the MAH, these intimate documents shed light on Hodler’s daily sources of inspiration, his life, and his thought. The lecture also examines his relationship to religion and spirituality, offering a closer look at the inner world behind the work.
In French.
Within the Mondes Parlés programme, Noah Truong shares excerpts from his novel-in-progress and then opens the floor to a public conversation. The text follows a diasporic, depressed and transsexual tourist in Ho Chi Minh City, as he confronts his own sense of displacement and the expectations he places on the country of his father’s origin. The session is shaped with the complicity of Emmanuelle Pireyre, writer and head of the writing workshop at HEAD – Genève.
In French. Followed by a discussion.
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