We invite you to our welcome lunch session of ‘Feminist Feast - A Research Colloquium‘ on 2 October, 12:15-1:30pm, in Room S11 at Maison de la Paix.

Feminist Feast is a student research colloquium at IHEID. This is a space to share, discuss, and celebrate feminist and critical scholarship happening right here in our community (and to have lunch ofc).

The colloquium aims to make student research visible, foster reflexivity, and build a community of researchers committed to feminist, intersectional, and critical perspectives. We are open to a range of critical perspectives regarding gender, race, class, coloniality, sexuality, disability, and other axes of power and invite you to share your research and insights with others!

At our welcome session, we'll have an ARP project and a seminar paper on the menu, each consisting of a 10-15 minute presentation of their research, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A and collective discussion. Bring your lunch or enjoy our snacks and drinks!

Presentation titles:

- "PLAYING WITH FIRE: Stakeholder Engagement with the Taliban and

the Human Rights Consequences", Jessie Weiss

- "Whose Security? Gender, Coloniality, and the Nuclear Order", Finja Pollen

Join TEDxGVAGrad for a guided visit to the International Red Cross Museum on Saturday, September 26 at 2:00pm! 🌟

Come explore the museum’s exhibitions, reflect on some of the questions at the heart of our studies, and the ideas we hope to bring to the 26/27 season of the TEDxGVAGrad conference! 💡

Limited spots available, so sign up fast! 🎟️

The South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) Initiative is hosting a potluck gathering to meet you! Join us at Perle du Lac to meet the Board, learn more about our planned activities for the coming semester, and join the SWANA community in Geneva.

A relaxed evening of fun, informal debates and creative writing games, bringing together the worlds of debating and journalism over an apéro.

We invite you to our Craft & Connect get-together on September 24, 5-7pm, in PCR.

Craft & Connect is a feminist crafting get-together bringing together students for a hands-on crafting session, including bracelet-making, carabiner design, and painting, framed around feminist community-building.

This event serves an important purpose: transitions to a new city and institution can be isolating, and informal creative activities offer a low-pressure way to foster genuine peer connections across cohorts. By providing this welcoming, inclusive space, we hope to support your integration into the Institute community, whether you're just starting out or continuing your journey here.

At our session, we'll have all the materials you need for bracelet-making, carabiner decorating, and painting, so just show up and pick whatever calls to you. Bring a friend or come solo, either way, we'll have snacks and drinks on hand!

We look forward to welcoming you! <3

The South Asian Welcome Quiz & Chai Social is a fun and informal event to welcome incoming students while celebrating the diversity and shared cultural experiences of the South Asian student community. Through a team-based quiz covering South Asian culture, music, food, geography, history, and fun facts, alongside a chai and snacks social, the event will encourage students to meet one another, build connections, and feel at home in the Institute community.

The visit is intended to complement students’ studies in international relations and diplomacy at the Geneva Graduate Institute by providing a practical perspective on the work of a Permanent Mission. Through this visit to the U.S. Mission, we hope students will have the opportunity to connect concepts discussed in their coursework with the day-to-day realities of diplomatic work, including how states engage with international organisations and other actors in Geneva. This will allow students to gain a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of diplomats, as well as the contribution of the U.S. Mission to the global governance landscape in Geneva.

Meet our current Board Members and learn more about our initiative while fueling up on free coffee and snacks!

No art skills? No problem! Collaging is an accessible and affordable art form that anyone can enjoy.

Collaging is scientifically proven to help us non-verbally process our subconscious emotions and experiences, allowing us to combine our logical and creative neural pathways to access deeper insights.

Join us for a night of meditative collaging to express (or discover!) what impact means to you. Whether it's climate and nature, human rights and humanitarianism, social equality, global health, education, or something else, we are excited to learn what impact looks like for each of us.

This event is hosted by the Geneva Impact Investing Association, which will provide glue sticks, scissors, and paper materials, so you do not need to purchase anything in advance. However, we encourage you to bring books, magazines, flyers, newspaper clippings, or other scrap paper that you don't mind cutting!

The event will take place in the Picciotto Common Room on 23 September 2026 at 19:30. We look forward to seeing you!

The Geneva Debate is hosting an informal aperol social at Perle du Lac to welcome new and returning students at the start of the academic year. The event offers an opportunity to introduce the initiative: its mission, activities, and upcoming programming, including the debate co-organised with the WTO Trade for Peace programme, while giving students an early, low-pressure setting to meet one another. As a lakeside outdoor venue, Perle du Lac also gives the event a distinctly Geneva welcome.

Join us for our annual tradition at the Institute to hike the Mont Salève! Discover the surroundings of Geneva while meeting new people in a beginner friendly hike. Meeting point: Broken Chair at 9 am. Please note that we are all going to take the cable car up Salève and the hike is going to take place at the top. We will be back to Geneva around 4 pm.

As part of the welcome month, Sunday Supper proposes a culinary game in which participants in groups of two will compete in a blind tasting task and a trivia around Spanish cuisine. The winners will get a free meal for one Sunday Supper. The event will also offer a typical Spanish 'apero' ade of tapas and drinks, to welcome the new students and give them a chance to exchange about culture and themselves, through food.

Welcome Apèro for Outdoors Initiaitve

As part of Welcome Week 2026, JDI is organising a Welcome Reception designed to introduce the initiative to incoming first-year students, reconnect with second-year students, and open a space for direct dialogue between the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) student community, young diplomats representing Permanent Missions, members of the United Nations community, and other actors of International Geneva. The event marks the opening of JDI's activities for the upcoming academic year and aims to be a memorable and formal dusk under the theme of diplomacy.

Doors open at: 18:00
Doors close at : 18:30

ASA Welcome Party is a social event organized to welcome new and returning students and provide an opportunity to connect with each other. The event will include the presentation of ASA and the new board, interactive games and music. The aim is to create a space where participants can meet new people, make connections, and enjoy an evening together. Food and drinks will be provided.

The main objective of this event is providing a relaxed afternoon of good food, new friends, and introducing Geneva’s green spaces to incoming students. We’ll start with a potluck at the Jardin Botanique, giving new students a chance to meet each other, enjoy some food together, and discover the conservatory. Afterwards, we’ll take the ferry out from Geneve- De-Chateaubriand (line 4) to Parc La Grange (we will prepare games to play in Parc La Grange for those who want to stay).

Calling all girls, gays, theys and everyone in between! Come to the Queer Feminist Apéro happening on 17th September @ 18:00. If you’re interested in a space that is focused on inclusive community, activism and peace building, GPSC x FemCol x QISA have collaborated to put on an event to welcome new and returning students for just that. Come and meet all three initiatives, find out how you can get involved and enjoy games and activities like volleyball and swimming as well as learn how to mix alcoholic and non-alcoholic spritzes to make the most of the final days of summer. If this sounds like a bit of you, we’d love to meet! Head down to Perle du Lac after the initiative fair and apéro.