Exposition “Tour du monde. De Jules Vernes aux premiers globetrotters”
De: dimanche 06 avril 2025 08:00 à dimanche 26 octobre 2025 18:00
Lieu: Château de Prangins - Musée national suisse Lien GoogleMap: Voir
| Exposition |
| Faire le tour du monde: un rêve qui est devenu réalité pour une élite de voyageurs et de voyageuses fortuné-es à la fin du XIXe siècle (1869-1914), avec l’émergence des premiers circuits touristiques. Cette exposition présentée au château de Prangins, y est dédiée. Plus d'infos |
Festival “Math’émerveille: Maths au Parc”
De: samedi 05 juillet 2025 14:00 à dimanche 06 juillet 2025 19:00
Lieu: Musée d'histoire des sciences, Parc de la Perle du lac Lien GoogleMap: Voir
| Festival de mathématiques |
| Le Festival Math’émerveille revient à Genève pour sa 2ᵉ édition. Au programme: un jeu de piste en plein air, des ateliers et des défis à partager en famille, entre ami-es ou en solo, mais aussi des exposés, des conférences et de la mathémagie pour toutes et tous, peu importe l’âge ou le niveau en mathématiques. Plus d'infos |
Conférence “Attacks on healthcare: From Syrian civil war to Gaza and...
De: mercredi 11 juin 2025 18:30 à mercredi 11 juin 2025 20:00
Lieu: Uni Mail, MR380 Lien GoogleMap: Voir
| Conference with Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Lord Rector (University of Glasgow) and Professor of Surgery (American University of Beirut) |
| Recent armed conflicts in Gaza, Myanmar, Syria, Ukraine and Sudan have escalated the destruction of health facilities and ambulances and the direct violence and threats exerted directly on healthcare workers. How can we ensure that attacks on healthcare do not become the new norm. More info |
Conférence “Social planning under uncertainty”
De: jeudi 05 juin 2025 18:00 à jeudi 05 juin 2025 19:30
Lieu: Uni Mail, MR280 Lien GoogleMap: Voir
| Conference with Charles F. Manski, Board of Trustees, Professor in Economics at Northwestern University. |
| Economists have long studied policy choice by social planners aiming to maximize population welfare, generally assuming that enough is known about the choice environment to determine an optimal action. However, the consequences of decisions are often highly uncertain. The lecture addresses the failure of research to come to grips with this uncertainty. More info |
Assemblée générale 2025 avec Raymond Loretan
De: jeudi 12 juin 2025 18:00 à jeudi 12 juin 2025 20:00
À l'issue de la partie statutaire (à 18h), nous nous réjouissons de recevoir Monsieur Raymond Loretan, Président du Club Diplomatique de Genève et ancien Ambassadeur de Suisse, pour une conférence intitulée « Réinventer le multilatéralisme : le rôle-clé de la Genève internationale » (à 19h, ouverte au public). Nous avons par ailleurs le plaisir d’accueillir à cette occasion la conseillère d’Etat Madame Nathalie Fontanet pour un mot d’introduction.
Une verrée conclura la soirée, qui s'achèvera vers 20h30.
Lieu: Uni Dufour, U300 Lien GoogleMap: Voir
Guest speakers
We regularly invite prestigious speakers to give talks on a range of subjects. These talks are a great opportunity to enrich your knowledge and network at the same time.
23 February 2022: Fin de l’accord-cadre. Quelles conséquences pour les universités et l’économie suisses ?
Representatives from academic, economic and political circles discussed the initial effects of the breakdown of the Framework Agreement with the European Union and explored scenarios for the near future.
Guest speakers have included:
- Pierre Krähenbühl (June 2024)
- Hugo Duminil-Copin (May 2023)
- Michel Mayor (May 2022)
- Yves Flückiger (Sep 2021)
- Ouided Bouchamaoui (Mar 2019)
- Denis Duboule (Apr 2018)
- Michael Møller (Mar 2017)
- Claude Nicollier (Apr 2016)
- Richard Jones (Oct 2015)
- Patrick Odier (May 2015)
- Yves Daccord (Nov 2014)
- Patrick Aebischer (Sep 2013)
- Carla Del Ponte (May 2011)
- Jean-Pierre Roth (May 2010)
10th anniversary celebration
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Alumni UNIGE organised a great evening on November 7, 2019, which was attended by numerous key alumni of the University of Geneva.
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Alumni Tuesdays
Each year we hold four Alumni Tuesdays. These fun, themed evenings put the spotlight on a distinguished UNIGE alumna or alumnus.
Each evening is split into two parts. First, there is a talk by a highly regarded alumna or alumnus. Guest speakers have included, among others, Ruth Dreifuss, former Swiss Federal Councillor and President of Switzerland; Ulrich Lehner, Switzerland’s representative to the OECD; the writer Joël Dicker; and director Frédéric Mermoud.
The evenings finish with a Q&A session and drinks. This is a fun way to build your network, often in the plush Salons.
Guest speakers have included:
- Thomas Greminger (Feb 2025)
- Fabienne Picard (Feb 2024)
- Thérèse Blanchet (Oct 2023)
- Lorenz Baumer (Jun 2023)
- Basile Landis (Mar 2023)
- David Sander (Dec 2022)
- Yves Rossier (Jun 2022)
- Patrick Aebischer (Nov 2021)
- Serge Michel (Sep 2021)
- Nicolas Zufferey (Nov 2019)
- Antoine Geissbuhler (Jun 2019)
- Suren Erkman (Feb 2019)
- Tibère Adler (Sep 2018)
- Luis Lema (Jun 2018)
- François Nordmann (Feb 2018)
- François Dermange (Dec 2017)
- Bertrand Levrat (Sep 2017)
- Grégoire Ribordy (Jun 2017)
- Joël Dicker (Feb 2017)
- Jean-Marc Rickli (Nov 2016)
- Ulrich Lehner (Sep 2016)
- Frédéric Mermoud (Jun 2016)
- Anne Héritier Lachat (Mar 2016)
- Caroline Coutau (Dec 2015)
- Maurice Bourquin (Jun 2015)
- Ruth Dreifuss (Mar 2015)
- Peter Brander (Nov 2014)
- René Prêtre (Sep 2014)
- Gilles Marchand (Jun 2014)
- Blaise Matthey (Apr 2014)
Alumni trips & exhibition tours
We organise a variety of trips and exhibition tours for our members, featuring a UNIGE researcher or professors as your guide. The aim is to provide cultural and educational experiences that provide members with an opportunity to network with other Alumni. They are also a chance for other members of the UNIGE community to share their knowledge and know-how.
Alumni trips
Our trips may vary in duration and geographical distance, and they can cover anything from culture and history to natural phenomena and research facilities. Please note that places for these trips are limited.
You can find out more about each destination by clicking on the link in the right column.
Exhibition tours
We regularly organise tours of cultural exhibitions or research facilities, either with a UNIGE professor or another expert. The CERN, the Fondation Gianadda, the MEG (Musée d’ethnographie de Genève) and the Physiscope, not to mention the UNIGE gallery, are just some of our regular destinations.
Our trips:
- Geneva’s geological secrets (2024)
- Rome (2024)
- Dordogne, France (2019)
- Southern Sicily (2019)
- Van Gogh’s footsteps: Paris to Arles (2018)
- British Museum, London (2017)
- Armenia (2017)
- Ardèche region, France (2016)
- The Netherlands (2015)
- Sicily (2015)
- Delft (2014)
- Calabria region, Italy (2014)
- Cyprus (2014)
- Northern Italy: Discovering Ötzi (2013)
- The sources of the Styx in Arcadia, Greece (2013)
- Albania (2012)
- Pompeii (2011)
- Stonehenge and Avebury (2011)
- Mali and Burkina Faso (2011)
- Australia (2010)
Our exhibition tours:
- Immersum – Diving into the past (January and February 2025)
- Heritage Tour of UNIGE – Former School of Medicine (October 2024 and February 2025)
- Heritage Tour of UNIGE – Institute of Physics (September 2024 and February 2025)
- Enchanted Journey (June 2024)
- Perspectives – The Mathematical Universe of M.C. Escher (April 2024)
- Rebirth in War (December 2023)
- Plankton, from Lake Geneva to the Ocean (September 2023)
- Pioneering Insights into the Birth of the Alps (June 2023)
- COVID Aftermath: the Ripple Effect of the Pandemic (March 2023)
- The New Threat – Exhibition on Cognitive Bias (October 2022)
- Who cares? Gender and Humanitarian Action (September 2022)
- Extraordinary History of Ordinary Prints (June 2022)
- Where’s the Monster? (April 2022)
- Intimate? (October 2021)
- Ancient Medicine, from Body to Stars (oct 2010 – jan 2011)
Events around the world
Welcome, bienvenidos, huān yíng! Over the years, the Alumni UNIGE network has also grown outside Switzerland, with events, meetings and talks taking place further afield. When we don’t have our own local chapter, we work in partnership with Swiss representations, embassies, chambers of commerce and Swissnex. For instance, we regularly hold events in Japan and Québec, and have also organized meetups in Paris, Mexico, Hong Kong and São Paulo.
