The month of March is all about women and diversity, with International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 and Geneva’s Gender Equality Week from March 4 to 14. Their mission is to raise awareness and actively advocate for a more inclusive and gender equitable world.
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“The Zone of Interest” by Jonathan Glazer, or the cry of silence
In 1943, the Höss family lived in a well-appointed house with a beautiful garden. Under their windows, the barbed wire of a concentration camp.
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Sound is all around us. It carries meaning through speech, and emotion through tone and music. The invention of radio, more than a century ago, changed the world, and the Internet gave this medium a new form through podcasts. Social science researchers, historians and anthropologists also use sound and recordings as research data or as the subject of their research, whether for oral histories or qualitative analysis.
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World AIDS day is organised every year to raise awareness of the challenges faced by people living with this disease, remember those who lost their lives and be aware that in 2023, there were 39.9 million people living with HIV (https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/). Here is a selection of titles that can bring you to better understand the origins and issues faced by people living with AIDS.
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With two events happening at the same time, we decided to set up two different displays in relation with the month of November. Here is a glimpse of what you can find in the entrance of the Library for Academic Writing Month AND Diversity Month.
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