Gender Centre - The Graduate Institute Geneva

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

16/02/2026

“This House believes that countries should adopt a feminist approach to peace and security to address today’s global security challenges.”

2026 Geneva Gender Debate
📅 3 March, 18:30, Auditorium Ivan Pictet A1A | Maison de la paix, Geneva

In Partnership with International Gender Champions, the Club Diplomatique de Genève

https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/2026-geneva-gender-debate

22/01/2026

How do certain people move from being erased and excluded to being recognised as legitimate subjects under international ?
Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, Rafael Carrano Lelis examines in his PhD thesis the mobilisation of human rights by transnational LGBTI+ activists. In doing so, he highlights the leading role of civil society in the subject-making process of q***r people.
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/news/leading-role-civil-society-recognising-rights-lgbti-people

14/01/2026

In her recently defended PhD thesis, Shriya Patnaik focuses on the decline and demise of the regional community of Devadasis — hereditary, ritualistic temple dancers and singers — in the Jagannath Temple of Puri, Odisha, India.
Nicole Bourbonnais, Associate Professor of International History and Politics, Co-director of the Gender Centre, and her thesis supervisor, interviewed her about her research and findings.
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/news/decline-and-demise-mahari-devadasis-orissa