Geneva Graduate Institute Library

Available at @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social under call number 21.6(73) HEIA 133885 #BannedBooksWeek

Banned books week 2025: October 5-11 Some of the titles in our collection are or were banned or challenged in a variety of countries by governments, religious authorities, or other interest groups. Dictatorships come to mind, of cours…

It's banned books (and films) week in the library! Check out our list of forbidden texts in our collection and take the opportunity to reflect on the current state of free speech in and outside of libraries.

Democracy week, October 1-9: Reinventing democracy At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama believed that Western liberal democracy would become the universal form of government. However, the times they are a-changin, and today, it seems that history is repeating itself as a farce, with the 2020s bearing a striking resemblance to the 1930s. It's not a surprise, then, that democracy has become a key topic in our collection.

Democracy Week is coming soon! A quick look at our selection on display in the Library.

An event card showing the details of the event that are given in the post. It also says 'An OABN webinar with the support of the ERC Executive Agency'.

EVENT: Join us at our next free webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors'

📆 Tuesday 30 September
⏰ 11am BST / 12pm CEST

Find out more & register: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/03/p...

#OAbooks @operaseu.bsky.social

Open Science round-up: The future of knowledge and who should control it  - International Science Council In this issue, we feature an editorial by Amy Brand, Director at MIT Press, who shares her insights on how the unchecked use of published research in AI may threaten the integrity, sustainability, and future of scientific publishing.

Open Science round-up: The future of knowledge and who should control it - International Science Council https://council.science/blog/open-science-round-up-july-august-2025/

Some royalty-free pictures of our library are indeed very popular. We are always happy to find them in unexpected contexts 🙂

Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP voluntee...

The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟

📚 New Book
De/Colonising Palestine: Contemporary Debates
Riccardo Bocco and Ibrahim Saïd, Eds

A powerful contribution bringing together 38 authors and diverse perspectives for a critical exploration of the Palestine Question.

🔗 doi.org/10.4000/13znp

@gvagrad.bsky.social @openedition.bsky.social

The @gvagrad-research.bsky.social's latest Research Bulletin is out, filled with publications, research events, calls for papers, and more!
👇
mailchi.mp/graduateinst...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Join us for a film screening of the documentary  Intercepted by Oksana Karpovych, a haunting look into war through intercepted phone calls.

📍 Maison de la Paix
📅 04 June, 17:30

🔗https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/film-screening-intercepted-oksana-karpovych

@gvagrad.bsky.social

Due to an excessively high number of visitors today, access to the library is now limited to the Geneva Graduate Community only.

The Will of the People -Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America An event organised by the research group Publics & Power at the Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Birmingham

💥Join us for this online event to talk about populism and citizen participation in Latin America.
🎤 Chair: @sbussu.bsky.social
🗓️ Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00 - 17:00 CEST
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-will-o... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

OpenAIRE EXPLORE and ORCID Integration: Complete your Open Science ORCID profile OpenAIRE EXPLORE now lets you auto-sync all your outputs, articles, data, software, straight to your ORCID record. Powered by the OpenAIRE Graph, it’s never been easier to build a full, open research ...

#Researchers, complete your @orcid.org profile the smart way!

#OpenAIREEXPLORE now lets you auto-sync all your outputs, articles, data, software, straight to your #ORCID record.
Learn more & try it today www.openaire.eu/openaire-exp...

#ORCID #OpenScience #ResearchTools

Open access publishing at the Graduate Institute: the 2024 barometer Since 2021, the Graduate Institute has agreements with major publishers that make it easier for researchers to publish open access (OA) articles. They have taken advantage of this opportunity and the proportion of OA articles has risen sharply. But a detailed analysis shows that the path taken may be unsustainable, and that most researchers are still neglecting simple ways to make their research accessible.

Did Open Access make progress at the Institute in 2024, or did we hit a brick wall? Find out in our barometer!

Gendered labour produces finance: Navigating profits and care as intermediaries of finance Financial actors often characterize finance as standardized and depersonalized. This narrative of standardized finance is commonly incorporated in critical finance scholarship which highlights the ...

Really happy to see my new article in @econsocjournal.bsky.social I followed the everyday labour of microfinance workers as they collect loans from women in India and navigate care with profit-maximisation, showing the social and emotional infrastructures that create finance for the underbanked.

Can't wait to be back at @gvagrad.bsky.social to discuss my book on belligerent reprisals. Many thanks to Paola Gaeta, Nico Krisch and @gvagrad-law.bsky.social for making this possible. For those interested, please join us on 8th May, 12.15-14.00! @cambup-law.bsky.social @genevaacademy.bsky.social

“Civil War” by Alex Garland, or an American nightmare America is in the grip of a civil war. Secessionist states are attempting to overthrow the government. Despite the risks, Lee Smith, a renowned photojournalist, and three followers make their way to Washington in the hope of securing an exclusive interview with the controversial president.

“Civil War” by Alex Garland, or an American nightmare

America is in the grip of a civil war. Secessionist states are attempting to overthrow the government. Despite the risks, Lee Smith, a renowned photojournalist, and three followers make their way to Washington in the hope of securing an…

💎🔓 We are now #DiamondOA!

No fees, no paywalls — just open, peer-reviewed research on the world of work 🌍

📚 Proud to partner with @openlibhums.bsky.social on this exciting new chapter! 🚀

Children and their rights "We are of our childhood as we are from a country." - Saint-Exupéry. For a long time, children did not receive much attention in international relations studies. After the First World War, children were seen as the future of the world and some actors began to be concerned about their fate. Discover a selection of titles in the entrance of the Library

Children and their rights - a view from the Library

Available under call number 342.7, HEIA 134007 ;-)

My article (written with Signe Predmore) on finance's women's inclusion agenda across Indian microfinance and US high finance is out in a fantastic volume in @finandsoc.bsky.social with excellent articles on performativity, inclusion, green transition and more!
@gvagrad-gc.bsky.social

Join us TOMORROW for a discussion on the future of business and #HumanRights with @michaelposner.bsky.social of NYU Stern, author of
Conscience Incorporated-Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights
and a leading expert at the intersection of business, ethics, & human rights:
👉 shorturl.at/93yiP

🎤 Your Voice Matters!

📢 Want to shape the future of social development? Here’s your chance! Share your thoughts in a quick interview—plus, there’s a blog contest with a shot at being published by the UN!
🔗 www.unrisd.org/en/activitie...

@gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social

Surviving in a time of no-deal with Wiley Read and Publish agreements are very convenient for researchers. You can publish open access in your favourite journals, at no cost (to you). But all good things have their downside, as we all know. As academic publishing is largely controlled by an oligopoly of (greedy) private companies, as libraries' budgets are not, as you might imagine, infinite, as libraries cannot simply agree to pay what the publishers ask, negotiations are tough...

Surviving in a time of no-deal with Wiley

Read and Publish agreements are very convenient for researchers. You can publish open access in your favourite journals, at no cost (to you). But all good things have their downside, as we all know. As academic publishing is largely controlled by an…

Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms.

It really works.

@gvagrad-hcgs.bsky.social ;-)

Geneva sustainability week 2025, March 17-21 As Spring is approaching, so comes the yearly Sustainability Week, along with a small display of selected titles in the entrance of the Library. The environment and sustainable development belong to the main topics covered by the Library over the past decades. Our dedicated collection is characterised by a large scope of subjects and perspectives of study, covering topics like climate change, natural resources and conflict, among others.

As Spring is approaching, so comes the yearly Sustainability Week. Here are a few words on the topic to accompany a small selection of titles on display at the entrance of the Library.

Join us for the screening of the documentary
'Made in Ethiopia', and panel discussion:
STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

With
Assistant Prof. Bernard Keo &
Forum programmer @pmottaz.bsky.social

📅Weds 12 March, 18:30, Maison de la paix, Geneva
In partnership with @fifdh.bsky.social

@gvagrad-gc.bsky.social