Award-winning filmmaker Jean-Stéphane Bron joined as a Fellow in autumn 2025 and will complete his fellowship in autumn 2026. Exploring both fictional works and documentary film, Bron is working with the CDHM and partnered IOs to explore a research- and interview-based fictional project rooted in the archives of International Geneva This project currently includes two related strands. The first, Capturing the Human Dimensions of Global Health Decision-Making (PI Jean-Stéphane Bron, research consultant Adam Strobeyko), covers the early phase of the pandemic response at WHO headquarters, from the first alarms to the vaccine rollout. Interviews have been conducted with Graduate Institute faculty, scientists, NGO staff, journalists, and Swiss government officials involved in COVID-19 response. The recordings will form part of the CDHM's digital archives of multilateralism at the Geneva Graduate Institute and will be accessible to its researchers. The second project strand, Oral History of Ebola Response (PI Adam Strobeyko, with Jean Jean-Stéphane Bron), began in spring 2026 and addresses the Ebola outbreaks of 2013–2020. Interviews with serving and former WHO leadership and staff are currently under way. The Ebola interviews are conducted in collaboration with WHO and will be transferred securely and solely to the WHO archives for their use in research and training.
Florian Cafiero is Associate Professor in computational social science at the Engineering School in Computer Intelligence (EPITA) and affiliate researcher at the Centre Jean Mabillon, Ecole nationale des chartes – PSL. Prof. In his advising role, Cafiero guides select projects with CDHM leadership, including the development of the newly launched Minutes of Multilateralism platform and DiploBERT, and as a Visiting Fellow co-leads CDHM workshops, participates in panels, and co-teaches with CDHM Visiting Fellow Jean-Philippe Cointet the CDHM 3 ECTS course: “Investigating Text Data with AI, Parts I and II” (ANSO183/184). This course, which uses the Minutes of Multilateralism as a pedagogical source, instructs students on how to apply computational methods to analyze text corpora in the social sciences.
The course is co-designed and taught with Jean-Philippe Cointet, who returns after an initial fellowship period in autumn 2025. Professor of sociology and director of the Institut Libre des Transformations Numériques at Sciences Po, he specializes in developing innovative methods for the humanities and social sciences. His main areas of interest are computational linguistics and network science. In addition to co-teaching “Investigating Text Data with AI, Parts I and II”, Prof. Cointet participates in CDHM activities and events, including presenting “Generative Social Sciences” in the December 2025 Geneva Graduate Institute workshop, “Artificial Intelligence and the University: Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Infrastructure”.
The “Investigating Text Data with AI” course this autumn will task students with an original research collective project using quantitative text analysis methodologies ranging from lexicometry, topic modeling, automatic coding with LLMs, sentiment analysis, and training ad-hoc text classifiers. In the lectures, the students learn how to perform the annotation and analyses of texts with their own code. The students’ exploration and analyses of certain corpora hosted by the Minutes of Multilateralism platform simultaneously serves as an example of new kinds of diverse audience engagement with CDHM’s latest tool. For more from Prof. Cafiero on how the tool works, please consult our demo video.