Karine DUPLAN is a Visiting Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), within the research unit UMR Géographie-cités. She will deliver a series of lectures in several seminars and master’s-level courses at the Campus Condorcet (see programme below).

Programme

Tuesday, 13 January – Rethinking Citizenship for Queer Migrants: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections
16:30–18:30
Room 2.14 – Humathèque
Seminar led by Régis Schlagdenhauffen, Research on Homosexualities and LGBTI Studies

14 January – Undoing Privilege in Migration: An Intersectional Approach
14:30–17:30
Room 50, EHESS Building
Seminar led by Camille Schmoll, Mobilities. Migrations. A Moral and Political Geography
Joint session with Wako Asato (Kyoto University), Care Work Migration in East Asia: Cases from Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan

15 January 2026 – Gender and Urban Space: What Would a Feminist Perspective Look Like?
10:30–13:30
Room 0.33, Research South Building
Core course of the Master’s programme Migration Geography of International Migration
Taught by Solène Le Bihan, Aurélie Varrel, and Camille Schmoll
Joint session with Wako Asato (Kyoto University), Feminization of Migration in Japan: The Entertainment Industry and Mechanisms of Exploitation

21 January – Producing the Inclusive City: Issues Surrounding Gender and Sexuality
12:30–14:30
Conference Centre
Humanities Course, Room 3.08
Seminar led by Beatriz Fernandez, Socio-demographic Transformations and Urban Planning in Contemporary Metropolises

 

Karine DuplanKarine Duplan is a geographer at the University of Geneva. Her work focuses on issues of social inclusion and the right to the city. Combining urban and migration studies, she draws on an intersectional perspective in aim for spatial justice. Her ongoing research uses creative and participatory methods to account for the urban spatialities of queer exiles. She is also carrying out a study on gender-sensitive urban planning mandated by the Office of Urban Planning of the State and Republic of Geneva. Her work has been published in renowned international journals. Karine Duplan has also been appointed as ‘Outstanding Female Scholar’ by the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2024.