[Midisciences 2025] Discover the full programme

We are delighted to announce that the Midisciences will resume from 30 January 2025.
The Midisciences are short popular science lectures designed to convey the essentials of science and share questions and thoughts on emerging knowledge through discussion.

Find out all about the new topics and immerse yourself in the captivating discussions led by passionate researchers!

>> Conferences broadcast live on V-AU
>> Conferences available for replay on Canal U

Campus Hannah Arendt, 1pm to 2pm, room 2E01

• 30 JANUARY : "Carbon accounting: how the French could save the world" by Christophe Devaux - President of the Colibri association, supervisor of shared student gardens
  
• 6 FEBRUARY : "Journey into the Anthropocene: Man at the heart of the problem and the solution" by Fanny Rubia - Geographer, film-maker, lecturer, education for the ecological transition
  
• FEBRUARY 13: "LIVING LANGUAGES - linguistic/biological comparison: convergences and limits" by Frédéric Jeorge - Lecturer in the Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality Laboratory (UPR ICTT) / Avignon University.
  
• 27 FEBRUARY: "Communal land ownership in France: an overview" by Thibaut Lecourt - PhD student in geography and planning (UMR ESPACE) / Avignon University.
  
• 6 MARCH: "A change of perspective? Herborisations et perceptions paysagères dans l'Ouest de la France (XIXe siècle)" by Louise Couëffé - Post-doctoral fellow in contemporary history at Avignon University (UMR CNE).

Jean-Henri Fabre Campus, from 1 to 2 p.m., Building A, Agrosciences amphitheatre

• 13 MARCH: "Carbon accounting: how the French could save the world" by Christophe Devaux - President of the Colibri association, supervisor of shared student gardens
  
• 20 MARCH: "Plant law and biodiversity" by Frédéric Pautz - Director of the Nancy Botanical Garden, head of the Biodiversity Commission, and COP16.
  
• 27 MARCH: "Ants - From an essential link in ecosystems to biological invasions" by Romane Blaya - Post-doctoral researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology (UMR IMBE) / Avignon University.
  
• 3 APRIL: "When tomato genetics tell us about human history" by Laurent Legendre - Professor at the INRAE / Avignon University Plants and Horticultural Cropping Systems Laboratory (PSH).
  
• 24 APRIL: "Can generative AI be ecologically responsible?" by Pierre Jourlin - Senior Lecturer at the Avignon Computing Laboratory (UPR LIA) - Avignon University.
  
• MAY 15: "Science discovering tradition and alcohol: the case of mezcal" by Joyce Alvarez - Post-doctoral researcher in metabolomics and ATER UMR SQPOV SporAlim - INRAE / Avignon University.