We are excited to invite you to join us for a special visit to the Yayoi Kusama Retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, taking place in until the 25th of January 2026. This exhibition is the first of its kind in Switzerland and promises to offer a complete overview of Kusama’s extraordinary career, showcasing some of her most iconic artworks, as well as never-before-seen pieces and one of her celebrated Infinity Mirror Rooms.
Pre-Registration for the Fondation Beyeler's Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Visit – Fill in form
We're excited to invite you to the D-GESS New Year Gathering, organized with ASST, WIDE, and GessWho. We welcome all DGESS staff and students to join us.
More information in December, stay tuned!
Join us for a panel discussion on Gender-based Violence with leading professors for International Women's Day 2026.
More information will be announced at a later date
with Women @CIS
We warmly welcome all DGESS members to join our annual board dinner.
With the assertiveness and mental health coach Alessandra Patti, we will strengthen communication and assertiveness skills learned in our first workshop in November 2024 through diverse practical exercises. We welcome all wom*n at D-GESS (staff, students, professors) to join us for this workshop and invite you to a lunch together after (13-14h).
Kindly note: Participants who did not attend the first workshop in November 2024 will have to do some reading preparation before the workshop.
Organised in collaboration with WIDE.
This interdisciplinary workshop series aims to explore the intersections of gender, technology, and society through in-depth, practical, and empirical knowledge exchange. This event seeks to create a space for critical dialogue, research sharing, and collaborative learning, emphasizing how gender dynamics shape technology and, conversely, how technology influences gendered experiences in the contemporary world.
Organized in collaboration with the Computer Science Network of Women (CSNOW, ETH), the Digital Society Initiative (DSI, UZH), SWiSH, CIS, and ETH Diversity.
Check out the workshops on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@swish_eth
We warmly invite all women* and feminism-enthusiasts working or studying at D-GESS to join us for an unmissable reading of Virginia Woolf's classic feminist essay A Room of One's Own. We’re excited to provide books for you! Just let us know during registration if you’ll need one.
About the book:
In this essay, Woolf outlines what women need to make full use of their abilities. Using provocative images and memorable thought experiments—including the fictional Judith Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother William but limited in ways he was not—Woolf stresses how women have been held back throughout history and in her own time.
Woolf urges both men and women to break free of the limitations of their roles and develop new traditions in which they can explore the depths and peaks of human experience through writing about ordinary things and ordinary people—a process in which she herself was a pioneer. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, has been a guiding light for generations of women and continues to be an inspiration in our own century.
To make this a truly unforgettable event, our book club meeting will include an exclusive visit to the literature museum Strauhof's current Virginia Woolf & Mrs. Dalloway exhibition. You'll also have the unique opportunity to enjoy a private guided tour with the curator herself!