Gender Centre | Geneva Graduate Institute

🆕 PhD 'Cotton Wars: The Politics of Life and Labor in Southeast #Turkey'

🎓 Luisa Lupo invites us to see labour not in isolation, but through gender, race, citizenship, and the specific histories and contexts shaping people’s lives.

@gvagrad.bsky.social
#PhD #Labour

🎤 Interview shorturl.at/J4zj4

Education in Adversity In 2022, the Taliban prohibited girls and women in Afghanistan from attending secondary school. Still, a range of NGOs continues to provide educational opportunities. This study examines how these org...

🆕 publication by Fabia Jenny
🏆 master thesis

How do NGOs navigate the challenges of providing education to girls and women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule?

🎤 interview shorturl.at/qTYKy
📖 ePaper books.openedition.org/iheid/14021
#OpenAccess

@gvagrad.bsky.social @openedition.bsky.social

💡How are anti-gender movements co-opting "sustainable development"?
New article by Lata Narayanaswamy
& Haley McEwen reveals how "smart economics" is being used to mask exclusionary agendas.
A must-read for #Beijing30!

📖 ow.ly/ZZko50Yk6UZ

www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

In what ways has civil society influenced the protection of LGBTI+ rights within the framework of international law?

🎤 Interview with Rafael Carrano Lelis shorturl.at/CJjEI

#queer #HumanRights

@gvagrad-law.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @rafaellelis.bsky.social

No deal with SAGE Publishing – What next? As often happens, a major academic publisher has set unreasonable demands in its contract negotiations with the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, and Swiss universities will start 2026 without a contract to access new publications in SAGE journals, nor possibilities to publish articles open access in these. What does this mean, how does this affect researchers, and how can you help in our struggle against attempts at implementing leonine contracts?

No deal with SAGE Publishing – What next?

As often happens, a major academic publisher has set unreasonable demands in its contract negotiations with the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, and Swiss universities will start 2026 without a contract to access new publications in SAGE journals,…

Film, science, action: ending violence against women

Data is a powerful tool to capture a problem; film is a powerful tool to humanise it.

📆 24 November 2025, 18:30-20:00
Maison de la paix, auditorium A2. In person only.
👉 shorturl.at/99MXJ

Join us tonight!

Film, Science, Action: Ending violence against women

📆 24 November 2025, 18:30-20:00
📍Geneva Graduate Institute, Auditorium A2

Join us for a powerful evening that blends data and storytelling to spotlight the global scale of violence against women.
More information and registration bit.ly/3LjyyO6

Call for papers: Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)

Deadline for submission: 10 November 2025.

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Open House Week starts today and here's today's classes still left to join real time, online.
Designed for prospective students but open to anyone to get a true sense of what it’s like to study here.

Access via webex, links below:
www.graduateinstitute.ch/open-house-w...

Does international human rights law and international migration law serve to secure the rights of families?

@fekadeal.bsky.social's PhD thesis examined the impact of security-based migration policies on the right of families to know the truth about their missing relatives.

👉 shorturl.at/umyA4

Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute-

"Detoxifying cosmetics​ and beauty ideals: Where policy meets art"

🗓️6-Nov-2025
⏰18:15 CEST
📍Geneva Graduate Institute, Auditorium A2
✒️Register at: www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

@unep.org @gvagrad.bsky.social @thegef.bsky.social @who.int

🎆🎆🎆 CEG-MEMENTO… Save the date ! 🎆🎆🎆

Le Centre en Études Genre de l’Université de Lausanne se prépare pour un nouveau semestre d’automne plein d’événements ouverts à touxtes!

#étudesdegenre
#recherche
#genderstudies
#intersectionnalité
#evenementscientifiques
#socialjustice
#seminaires

Fireside Chat with Shirin Ebadi

🗓️ Date: Tuesday, 14 October 2025
🕒 Time: 15:00 – 16:30 CEST
📍 Location: GCSP, 5th floor (pétale 4), Geneva & online (Hybrid)

📢You are invited to join our upcoming event "Race in the Anthropocene: Coloniality, Disavowal and the Black Horizon" with Farai Chipato, David Chandler and @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social

🗓️ 24 September| 18:30-20:00
📍 @gvagrad.bsky.social | Auditorium A2
🔗Register here: bit.ly/4mfVyKx

@tanushreekaushal.bsky.social 's recently defended PhD thesis traces the financialisation of #microcredit from #WestBengal to Geneva.
Professor Elisabeth Prügl, her thesis supervisor, interviewed Tanushree about her doctoral research in a podcast:

Listen now: shorturl.at/ufUav

Thanks to @unrisd.org and @gvagrad.bsky.social for hosting this event - I cannot wait to contribute to this discussion on injury, trauma and repair in the peace sector

Check out PhD candidate @rakshagopal.bsky.social 's Research Photo competition entry: "Mothering from the Margins"
Raksha's research focuses on the narratives of stateless Rohingya mothers surviving and raising families across #RefugeeCamps in Delhi.

👉 www.graduateinstitute.ch/node/78571

Women’s ‘mineral empowerment’ in post-colonial #Zimbabwe: Zimbaqua Mining Company as an example of #genderequality and #decolonization?
An article By Tilda Nkomo, part of the Gender, Sexuality, and Decolonization Resource Page blog:
www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Narratives, Oral History and Development Studies

Narratives, Oral History and Development Studies

Narratives, Oral History and Development Studies

As part of our Research Festival, PhD researcher Nicolas Hafner explored the history of development studies through oral history. His work traces student voices, activism, and solidarity from Geneva to Brazil and Chile.

@gvagrad-research.bsky.social
📸 www.graduateinstitute.ch/node/78571

As part of the Research Festival on 13 May 2025, 26 researchers shared fieldwork photos exploring the heart of their work. The jury prize went to PhD researcher Nora Doukkali for Stolen Time, capturing the stillness and erasure faced by migrants at the Darién Gap.

@gvagrad-research.bsky.social

👉New #PhDDefense at the @gvagrad.bsky.social

The politics of #gender in #peace agreement implementation.

Using evidence from Colombia and an original dataset, Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos uncovers the political nature of peace agreement implementation.
👁️👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/Xyb0c

Education is a major driver of global poverty reduction. It accounts for 40% of the decline in poverty worldwide since 1980.

How has International Geneva shaped cooperation in education?
Discover the actors that made Geneva a global hub for education policy.
🔗 buff.ly/5vSgNzS

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Happening today at 17:00 CEST!

Innovating Justice for #Afghanistan's Women and Girls: Unlocking Pathways for Universal Jurisdiction

📍Geneva Graduate Institute, Room A2
🔗 Watch online: iheid.webex.com/iheid/j.php?...

New podcast episode:
Claire Somerville of @gvagrad-gc.bsky.social explores how gender is being politicised, what’s at stake for marginalised communities & how similar debates are unfolding beyond US borders:
Gender Wars: Power, Protection, and the Politics of Identity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIvU...

Comment les bénéficiaires de politiques d’action positive s’approprient-ils – et s’approprient-elles – les programmes qui leur sont destinés ? Cette question est au cœur d’une thèse de PhD en anthropologie et sociologie centrée sur les cas de la France et du Brésil, Camille Giraut.
shorturl.at/ahsMr

📢 Join us to support survivor-centred accountability:
Innovating Justice for #Afghanistan's Women & Girls: Unlocking Pathways for Universal Jurisdiction
🗓️ 16 June 2025 | 17:00 CEST
📍 Room A2, Geneva Graduate Institute
🔗 tinyurl.com/innovatejust...
@gvagrad-mint.bsky.social @omaidsharifi.bsky.social

📢 Calling peacebuilders! #GPW25 is now accepting proposals for panels & workshops—online or in-person. Topics include peace mediation, climate, gender, tech & more.

🗓️ Deadline: 16 May 2025
👉 Apply here: www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en/gpw25/cal...
#GenevaPeaceWeek #Peacebuilding #CallForProposals

Pour une histoire des écrits queers - Le Courrier «Tout écrivain minoritaire (qui a conscience de l’être) entre dans la littérature à l’oblique si je puis dire», affirmait l’autrice et militante Monique Wittig1>Lire son avant-note au recueil de Djuna...

Les œuvres et auteur·ices LGBTQIA+ de Suisse romande sont peu visibles, et même invisibles avant l’an 2000. Une équipe de recherche s’est donné pour but de les sortir de l’ombre.

Elle explique ici la genèse du projet, avec la volonté de «faire archive» en chemin.

lecourrier.ch/2025/05/04/p...

Gendered labour produces finance: Navigating profits and care as intermediaries of finance Financial actors often characterize finance as standardized and depersonalized. This narrative of standardized finance is commonly incorporated in critical finance scholarship which highlights the ...

Really happy to see my new article in @econsocjournal.bsky.social I followed the everyday labour of microfinance workers as they collect loans from women in India and navigate care with profit-maximisation, showing the social and emotional infrastructures that create finance for the underbanked.