Gender Centre - The Graduate Institute Geneva

21/10/2026

How did Martinican feminists challenge colonial rule and imagine new forms of citizenship?

We are delighted to welcome Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Associate Professor at Duke University and award-winning author of Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire.

Drawing on overlooked archives, this lecture explores the vibrant feminist movements that emerged in Martinique during the 1930s and 1940s. The discussion will shed light on how women developed distinctive forms of activism, resistance, and political thought in the face of colonial domination and social inequality.

📅 Wednesday, 28 October 2026, from 18H15 to 19H45

📍 Geneva Graduate Institute, Auditorium A2

🔗 More information here: https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/between-citizenship-and-refusal-feminist-practices-care-twentieth-century

Join us for a fascinating exploration of feminism, empire, citizenship, and liberation.

18/10/2026

How did a simple medical device transform the experience of abortion across the world?

Join us for a stimulating conversation with Bibia Pavard, Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Paris Panthéon-Assas University, whose research explores gender, feminism, and reproductive politics.

Drawing on her recent book La douleur et le soin, Bibia Pavard will trace the transnational journey of manual vacuum aspiration, examining how a seemingly simple medical innovation reshaped abortion care, challenged medical authority, and revealed deep inequalities in the governance of women’s bodies.

📅 Monday, 26 October 2026 from 18h30 to 20h00
📍 Geneva Graduate Institute, Auditorium A2
🔗 More information here: https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/pain-and-care-transnational-history-manual-vacuum-aspiration-abortion-during

04/09/2026

A commentary on the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, held in Geneva on 6 and 7 July 2026.

27/08/2026

Rama Salla Dieng is joining the Geneva Graduate Institute as Associate Professor in the International Relations/Political Science Department and Co-Director of the Gender Centre.
Dieng’s research focuses on feminist international relations, African politics, and feminist political economy analyses of land, labour, social reproduction and food in Africa and Western Europe.
https://graduateinstitute.pulse.ly/zv9i7bqt6w

24/08/2026

24/08/2026

HIV/AIDS came to be understood as an overwhelmingly urban phenomenon in late 20th-century England.

A new article by George J. Severs, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute’s Gender Centre examines
"HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside".
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https://shorturl.pulse.ly/fhgx37o2mi

14/07/2026

Recent graduate of the Master in International and Development Studies programme with a specialisation in Gender, Race, and Diversity ('25), Sara Ferrari has just come back from , where she completed a 6-month internship with the International Organization For Migration (IOM).

http://graduateinstitute.ch/communications/news/six-months-uganda-iom

01/06/2026

23/03/2026

Tanzania’s October 29 protests were framed as an electoral dispute. Research links them to a deeper crisis of blocked adulthood among young people.

23/03/2026

In her PhD thesis in International Relations/Political Science, Luisa Lupo examines the everyday lives of people labouring in the fields of Southeast and within the supply chains that connect them to international markets. She finds that labour precariousness intersects with the violences of the state’s security measures to produce veritable “cotton wars,” which workers and their families negotiate as they make life liveable and meaningful.
Read an interview
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/news/cotton-wars-labour-precariousness-and-geopolitics-cotton-fields-southeast