Federico Novello, a postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, presents a lecture on the many lives of a medieval text and the challenges of establishing a critical edition. Drawing on the tradition of vernacular textual scholarship, the talk examines the transmission, rewriting, and interpretation of the Descent of Saint Paul into Hell. It offers insight into how editorial choices shape our understanding of inherited texts and their changing meanings across time.
In French.
Elke Berr, gemmologist and illustrator, traces the living journey of a gemstone from the depths of the earth to the finished jewel. She shows that drawing a stone is already a form of understanding—translating intuition into lines to anticipate the balance of light, material and movement. Berr also discusses her fieldwork near deposits, where scientific expertise meets sensitive intuition, and how this dialogue produces an ethical, human value chain with no intermediaries.
In French.
This opening evening of the 25 November Geneva campaign brings together a round table on incest as a central issue within the continuum of sexist, sexual and gender-based violence. The discussion also addresses violence against children, as well as the broader links between equality and democracy. Géraldine Morel, Cécile Cée and Kaoutar Harchi contribute their perspectives, with moderation by journalist Agathe Seppey. Representatives of the Geneva authorities will also be present, alongside Fahrenheit 451.
Historian Patrick Auderset, drawing on a poster collection donated by the Unia trade union in 2022, presents research on labour mobilizations in Geneva from the 1920s to the 1990s.
The lecture examines how posters functioned as tools of communication and collective identity, exploring visual strategies, recurring motifs and the relationship between graphic design and labour politics. Auderset reveals how images shaped public memory and activism.
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.
Seriously? is a cycle of eight conferences that examines the future of architecture and the built environment in the face of environmental crises, social change and accelerating technology. Through a curious, optimistic and pragmatic lens, the series explores adaptive design strategies, material economies, community resilience and ethical innovation. Speakers include Annette Gigon, Comte / Meuwly, Andrea Shin Ling, Gabrielle Halpern, a Pecha Kucha session, Amin Taha, Dora García and Reinier de Graaf.
Two round-table discussions mark the 150th anniversary of the Revue de Belles-Lettres. Moderated by David André, the first session, “Histoires de la Revue de Belles-Lettres”, looks back at the journal’s history with Dominique Kunz‑Westerhoff, Alessio Christen and Laurent Cennamo. The second, led by Anne‑Frédérique Schläpfer, presents the commemorative issue on the livre pauvre in dialogue with Daniel Leuwers, Jonathan Wenger and Natacha Allet. The evening concludes with an apéritif.
In French.
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