2025
Watch GCP CONFERENCES and seminars in 2025
10 June 2025 | 3.30 pm - 5 pm | Presentation of the book "Philanthropy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives", Routledge Research Companions in Business and Economics series
Format: In-person ( Room 408, Uni-Dufour)
On the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Henry Peter, who directed the Centre for Philanthropy from its creation in 2017 until December 31, 2024, the GCP is pleased to invite you to the presentation of a new book produced in his honour.
6 May 2025 | 6 pm - 8 pm | Guest Lecture by Michèle Lamont
The recording of the event is now available. here >>
Co-organised with the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID).
Drawing on her last book "Seeing Others - How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Simon & Schuster, January 7, 2025), Prof. Lamont will address some of the most pressing issues of our time. How recognition and dignity can be framed? How can everyone be included in society? These issues are all the more important given recent (geo)political developments in the US and globally.
With the participation of:
- Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University
- Prof. Marie-Laure Salles, Director, Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)
- Karin Jestin, Director, Edmond de Rothschild Family Philanthropy
12 March 2025 | 6 pm - 8 pm | Public conference "Philanthropie: quels financements alternatifs pour les médias?"
The video of the event is available here >>
Keynote:
- Gilles Marchand, Directeur désigné, Initiative Média et Philanthropie (IMP), Centre en philanthropie
PROGRAMME
WELCOME
Prof. Nicolas Duvoux, Directeur, Centre en philanthropie & Professeur de sociologie, Faculté des Sciences de la Société, UNIGE
KEYNOTE
Gilles Marchand, Directeur, Initiative Média et Philanthropie (IMP), Centre en philanthropie, UNIGE
ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION
Snezana Green, Director, Reporters Shield Program, Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice
Sylvain Lafrance, Directeur, Pôle médias, HEC Montréal
Patrice Schneider, Chief Strategy Officer, MDIF
Florence Turpault-Desroches, Vice-Présidente, Communications et Philanthropie, La Presse
CLOSING WORDS
Prof. Audrey Leuba, Rectrice, UNIGE
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6 March 2025 | 6 pm - 8 pm | Conference « Ukraine : a humanitarian response in constant evolution »
The video is now available. Click here to watch the video and here to discover the fact sheet on Ukraine >>
- Co-organised with Swiss Solidarity (La Chaîne du Bonheur)
PROGRAMME
INTRODUCTION
Prof. Nicolas Duvoux, Head, Geneva Centre for Philanthropy, UNIGE
PRESENTATION
Miren Bengoa, Managing Director, Swiss Solidarity
PANEL
- Ernst Lüber, Director of programmes, Swiss Solidarity
- Thomas Mauget, Helvetas Eastern Europe Regional Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator
- Dr Yuliya Sporysh, Director and Founder, NGO Girls
Moderation: Dr Christine Lutringer, Executive Director, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, IHEID
4 February 2025 | 2 pm - 3 pm | Launch of the "The Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Philanthropy"
Format: In-person (Room U259 at Uni-Dufour) and Online via Zoom
During this event, the book was presented by the co-editors Prof. Giuseppe Ugazio and Milos Maricic, and reviewed by Jonathan Evens. Moderated by Jamie Webb.
In collaboration with Synergos Global Philanthropists Circle.
14 January 2025 | 12 pm - 2 pm | MIA | Philanthropy Lunch | Nouveautés Législatives et réglementaires pour les fondations et associations suisses
Venue: Maison Internationale des Associations (MIA), Rue des Savoises 15
In collaboration with Maison Internationale des Associations (MIA), proFonds and CAGI
