2025: Discourses and practices of compassion concepts

15H00 OPENING REMARKS

15H10 - 16H30 SESSION I. EVENTS, CONTEXTS, CONCEPTS - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Moderator: Anita Budziszewska (University of Warsaw and Geneva Graduate Institute - IHEID)

Mapping the Concepts of Compassion: Political Practices and Rhetorical Uses of Concern for the Other
Irène Herrmann (University of Geneva)

A Financial Humanity? The Interventions and the Building of the International Order in the Nineteenth Century
Andrés Vicent Fanconi (University of Geneva)

Understanding Solidarity: Experiences, Rhetoric, Symbolism (19th–20th Centuries)
Renata Latała (University of Geneva)

Roundtable

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17H00 – 18H45 SESSION II. CONTEXTS, CONCEPTS AND IMPLEMENTATION - CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE
Moderator: Irène Herrmann (University of Geneva)

Reinventing Compassion to create New Political Orders
Joshua Vincent Hellinger (Geneva Graduate Institute - IHEID)

Elites and Philanthropy: Reframing Modern Giving through a Human-Centered Lens
Anita Budziszewska (University of Warsaw and Geneva Graduate Institute - IHEID)

Re)defining Values of Life: Sudanese Cultural Humanitarianism
Katarzyna Grabska (University of Geneva)

The Elephant in the Room - CSA, Compassion and Political Will
Vera Lalchevska (Geneva Coalition)

Roundtable

18H45 CLOSING REMARKS