These guided walks examine the theatrical and performance heritage of Geneva’s central district, tracing how venues, spaces and public life have shaped local cultural practices. Through close observation and commentary, participants explore architectural traces, historical narratives and the social roles of performance sites. The walks reveal connections between urban form and performing arts, offering interpretive tools to understand cultural landscapes and their evolution.
In French.
Marie NDiaye, winner of the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, is one of the leading voices in contemporary francophone literature. Her work investigates filiation, exile, questions of identity and relations of domination. This meeting revisits her remarkable career, examines her writing process and probes the major themes that run through her oeuvre, offering critical insight into narrative strategies and ethical concerns.
In French.
Featuring invited speakers Wajdi Mouawad, Dominique Eddé, Nathalie Piégay and Agnès Giard, the series gathers voices from literature, theory and cultural research to reflect on love’s complexities.
Presentations examine the courage of not loving, love as a life‑force, literary and theoretical discourses, and contemporary forms of attachment including artificial loves in Japan, probing how public dialogue and interdisciplinary inquiry sustain critical humanist perspectives.
In French.
Tiffany Sarre, cultural mediator, leads the French-language guided visit and provides informed commentary on the library’s collections and institutional mission. Her role focuses on public mediation and interpretation.
This tour examines the library’s evolution from its origins to the present, exploring how collecting, preservation and transmission shape cultural memory. Participants investigate curatorial practices, archival missions and the institution’s role in sustaining Geneva’s heritage through close observation and guided explanation.
In French.
Patrick Favre-Tissot, musicologist and author of Giuseppe Verdi (Bleu Nuit editions), brings scholarly expertise in 19th-century opera and cultural history.
This lecture examines how Verdi’s compositions intersected with Italian patriotism, investigating key works, historical contexts, and musical rhetoric that fostered national sentiment. It explores artistic strategies Verdi used to address political themes and what that reveals about opera’s role in 19th-century public life.
In French.
Aude Seigne, author of the novel Le Nord à contre-jour, presents and discusses her latest work. The book follows a blended family on holiday in Denmark, where a thirteen-year-old observes shifting alliances, buried secrets and complex emotions. The conversation explores themes of jealousy, power, rivalry, parental roles and the intimate dynamics of contemporary family life. The talk is moderated by Julien Rapp. A book signing and sales will follow.
In French.
Jean-Louis Johannides leads CRU, an open urban research group that explores the rapidly changing Praille-Acacias-Vernets territory. The workshop gathers walks, observations and field collections to collaboratively compose a prospective narrative set in 2047. Participants will practise narrative-foresight methods and collective writing through field research, creative exercises and group discussion. Architect and doctoral researcher Clément Mathey contributes perspectives on collective narration and futures approaches.
In French.
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