[Midisciences 2026] Discover the full programme

We are delighted to announce that the Midisciences will resume from 5 February 2026.
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

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

• 5 FEBRUARY Laure Antunes (Centre Norbert Elias): «Exposing Egyptian mummies: a new relationship with the body and the sacred».»
• 12 FEBRUARY Natacha Collomb (IDEAS - Institut d'ethnologie et d'anthropologie sociale): «Faire science du vivant: quelles similitudes et quelles divergences entre anthropologie et biologie du développement?»
• 5 MARCH Frédéric Jeorge (UPR ICTT): «Les paroles s'envolent... Petite histoire de l'écriture» (Words take flight... A short history of writing)»
• 12 MARCH Julia Pataillot (Centre Norbert Elias): «Cinema and psychiatry: representations of mental illness in images».»

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• 26 MARCH: Exceptional Midiscience: My thesis in 180 seconds, local selection – from 12h to 14h

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Jean-Henri Fabre Campus, AgES Institute, Building A, Agrosciences amphitheatre - 1pm to 2pm

• 19 MARCH Julien-Robert Paganin (Cell Biology and Cancer Laboratory, Institut Curie): «Parasites and men: Plasmodium myosins as new targets in the fight against malaria».»
• 2 APRIL Konstantinos Chalikakis, Leila Serene, Guillaume Cinkus (GeEAUde Chair - UMR EMMAH): «The visible and invisible pathways of water».»
• 9 APRIL Emma Leone (UMR IMBE): «A contamination rooted in time, 78 years of pollution after the burning of munitions in a protected natural area».»
• APRIL 30TH Claudia Defrasne (Mountain Environments, Dynamics and Territories Laboratory, EDYTEM): «Interdisciplinarity at the foot of decorated walls - The example of schematic cave paintings in southern France».»
• 7 MAY Philippe Beltrame (UMR EMMAH): «Chaos in the service of order».»