https://histoire-cite.ch/programme/

Presentation of the 2022 edition in video here.

Access to the festival is subject to cantonal and federal health regulations.
All activities are free.

GENÈVE
Horaires Librairie historique, Uni Dufour
Mardi 29 mars: 16h-21h
Mercredi 30 mars: 11h-21h
Jeudi 31 mars: 11h-21h
Vendredi 1er avril: 11h-21h

Bar du festival, Uni Dufour
Mardi 29 mars: 16h-21h
Mercredi 30 mars: 11h-21h
Jeudi 31 mars: 11h-21h
Vendredi 1er avril: 11h-21h
Samedi 2 avril: 11h-19h

LAUSANNE
Palais de Rumine (horaires festival):
Jeudi 31 mars – vendredi 1er avril: 17h-22h
Samedi 2 avril: 10h-22h
Dimanche 3 avril: 10h-18h
Musée Historique Lausanne: 11h-18h

PRESS RELEASE
Geneva | March 8, 2022
Spotlight on the invisible: the Festival Histoire et Cité unfolds in Geneva and Lausanne a generous program on individuals, groups and hidden phenomena in history. Organized under the auspices of the Maison de l'histoire of the University of Geneva (UNIGE), it brings together academic partners, cultural institutions and public organizations in order to promote informed dialogue, scientific mediation and complementary approaches to knowledge of the past.

Free of charge, the festival is open to all those who have a taste for history and a desire to decode the present.

Carried by many current debates, the theme "invisibles" gains to be placed in a wider temporal perspective able to reveal the hierarchies, assumed or implicit, which condition human relationships and the writing of history. How to grasp the relegation of women? How can we tell the story of the lives of individuals of whom the archives hardly keep any trace? What does the will to disappear, or even the strategy of erasure, express? In what way do memorial policies highlight certain events to the detriment of others? How can language exclude? These are some of the topics that this new edition of Histoire et Cité intends to address.

Geneva
Uni Dufour will be the home of the festival with its vast bookshop run by Payot Libraire and a bar managed by the Swiss Association of Humanities and Social Sciences Publishers. Conferences, round tables, workshops, guided tours, film screenings, book presentations, exhibitions and performances will follow one another. Partners such as the Bains des Pâquis, the Bibliothèques municipales, the Comédie de Genève, the Bibliothèque de l'ONU and the Musée d'art et d'histoire will host various activities within their walls.

The director of research at the CNRS Marylène Patou-Mathis will open the festival with a conference on the invisibility of prehistoric women, while Titiou Lecoq, essayist, will speak about the courage of women to act through the centuries. Several events will address the invisibilization of certain categories of individuals in the archives. Étienne Davodeau, French cartoonist and scriptwriter, will present his latest comic book, Le Droit du sol, devoted to the occultation of environmental pollution; a round table will question the games that underlie the naming of places; a musical reading on invisibility as a political choice will be proposed by the novelist Olivia Rosenthal and the guitarist Bastien Lallement; a play, Destini Incrociati/Italia 30, will give voice to those who were excluded by fascism The film program will focus on the wounded and prevented memory of the victims of genocide and on the memory of groups that have long been left on the bangs of the great narratives, in the presence of directors Sébastien Lifshitz and Christophe Cognet.

Lausanne
In the canton of Vaud, the event will take place between the Palais de Rumine, the Musée historique de Lausanne and the streets of the capital. It is supported by the University of Lausanne, the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne and the Cantonal Museum of Archaeology with the help of partners such as the Cantonal Archives, Payot Libraire and history teachers.

Clovis Maillet, historian and performer, will open the event with a lecture on the history of trans-identity in the Middle Ages, echoing an exhibition devoted to the life of Dr. Favez, who was born in Lausanne under the name of Henriette and became a doctor in Cuba at the beginning of the 19th century; Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou will examine the place of racism in Swiss history; debates and conferences will address issues such as minorities in Islam, anti-racist struggles in Switzerland, spiritualism and women mediums, the relegation of the elderly or the hidden past of the Soviet Union; guided tours will allow us to discover the invisibles of archaeology, the work of illustration carried out by various artists around sensitive archives, or to survey certain medieval neighborhoods of Lausanne in search of their disappeared inhabitants. On the big screen, let's mention the projection of the Iranian film, long condemned to invisibility, The Wind Chessboard.