From boomers to alphas, there's strength in numbers
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With Cornelia Hummel, sociologist and professor at the Institut de recherches sociologiques, University of Geneva, and Marion de Boüard, author and producer, with Héloïse Pierre, of the podcast “Mamie dans les Orties”.
With the participation of Anna Millers, heritage curator in charge of the Sport and Health department at Mucem.
Sharing wealth, financing pensions, caring for the environment, the real estate crisis… blamed for all the ills, the baby-boomers are said to have sinned through thoughtless over-consumption and individualism. And yet, projects uniting the generations are flourishing, from schools and Ehpads to intergenerational sharing schemes… as if reinvesting in these links could open up new horizons.
Rokhaya Diallo
Rokhaya Diallo © George T
Rokhaya Diallo is an award-winning French journalist, author and film-maker. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and the Guardian, and a researcher at the Gender+Justice Initiative Research Center at Georgetown University (Washington). In France, she teaches cultural studies at Paris 1 – Sorbonne and is a columnist for television and radio. Rokhaya Diallo is the author of a dozen books and comic strips, and has made several documentaries. With Grace Ly, she also created “Kiffe Ta Race” (Binge Audio), the first French-language podcast dedicated to racial issues and ranked as one of the best podcasts by Apple. In 2022, Rokhaya Diallo founded W.O.R.D., the first school dedicated to public speaking, with the aim of democratizing access to the public sphere.
Marion de Boüard
Marion de Boüard
Co-creator with Héloïse Pierre of the podcast Mamie dans les orties since 2019 and co-author of the eponymous book derived from the podcast published in April 2021. Passionate about questions of transmission, heritage and also feminism, she and Héloïse collect the stories of our grandmothers in order to document history through these particular stories. Mamie dans les orties (Grandma in the nettles) gives voice to these testimonies, shedding light on the evolution of women’s rights in the second half of the 20th century and providing keys to understanding for current and future generations.
Cornelia Hummel
Cornelia Hummel
Cornelia Hummel is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a member of the Institute for Sociological Research (IRS) at the University of Geneva. She is also a research associate at the Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d’études des vulnérabilités (CIGEV) at the University of Geneva, and a member of Urban Hub and the Laboratoire du visuel at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Her work is in the field of the sociology of old age and aging. After writing her doctoral thesis on social representations of old age, she turned her attention to the social construction of old age, from a historical and epistemological perspective. Her recent research on ageing in urban spaces, and then on the materialities of ageing, is partly conducted using visual (photography) and sound methods. She currently heads the SNSF research project “Aging Humans, Changing Homes”, which focuses on the reconfiguration of the home when “aging” socio-technical objects are introduced.
Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With Cornelia Hummel, sociologist and professor at the Institut de recherches sociologiques, University of Geneva, and Marion de Boüard, author and producer, with Héloïse Pierre, of the podcast “Mamie dans les Orties”.
With the participation of Anna Millers, heritage curator in charge of the Sport and Health department at Mucem.
Sharing wealth, financing pensions, caring for the environment, the real estate crisis… blamed for all the ills, the baby-boomers are said to have sinned through thoughtless over-consumption and individualism. And yet, projects uniting the generations are flourishing, from schools and Ehpads to intergenerational sharing schemes… as if reinvesting in these links could open up new horizons.
Rokhaya Diallo
Rokhaya Diallo © George T
Rokhaya Diallo is an award-winning French journalist, author and film-maker. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and the Guardian, and a researcher at the Gender+Justice Initiative Research Center at Georgetown University (Washington). In France, she teaches cultural studies at Paris 1 – Sorbonne and is a columnist for television and radio. Rokhaya Diallo is the author of a dozen books and comic strips, and has made several documentaries. With Grace Ly, she also created “Kiffe Ta Race” (Binge Audio), the first French-language podcast dedicated to racial issues and ranked as one of the best podcasts by Apple. In 2022, Rokhaya Diallo founded W.O.R.D., the first school dedicated to public speaking, with the aim of democratizing access to the public sphere.
Marion de Boüard
Marion de Boüard
Co-creator with Héloïse Pierre of the podcast Mamie dans les orties since 2019 and co-author of the eponymous book derived from the podcast published in April 2021. Passionate about questions of transmission, heritage and also feminism, she and Héloïse collect the stories of our grandmothers in order to document history through these particular stories. Mamie dans les orties (Grandma in the nettles) gives voice to these testimonies, shedding light on the evolution of women’s rights in the second half of the 20th century and providing keys to understanding for current and future generations.
Cornelia Hummel
Cornelia Hummel
Cornelia Hummel is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a member of the Institute for Sociological Research (IRS) at the University of Geneva. She is also a research associate at the Centre interfacultaire de gérontologie et d’études des vulnérabilités (CIGEV) at the University of Geneva, and a member of Urban Hub and the Laboratoire du visuel at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Her work is in the field of the sociology of old age and aging. After writing her doctoral thesis on social representations of old age, she turned her attention to the social construction of old age, from a historical and epistemological perspective. Her recent research on ageing in urban spaces, and then on the materialities of ageing, is partly conducted using visual (photography) and sound methods. She currently heads the SNSF research project “Aging Humans, Changing Homes”, which focuses on the reconfiguration of the home when “aging” socio-technical objects are introduced.