In collaboration with the Museum of Natural History, l’Artistique is organizing a series of conferences from Wednesday, November 8 to December 13, 2023.
Located at 27 Boulevard Dubouchage, l’Artistique Centre of Arts and Culture & Espace Ferrero regularly offers conference series on various topics. Beginning Wednesday, November 8, the focus will be on natural heritage. The Scientific Culture delegation for this series is led by the Deputy Mayor, Jean-Marc Giaume. The City of Nice thus aims to promote scientific culture as well as to convey the cultural history of Nice.
The goal is to highlight the Museum of Natural History of Nice, which has a regional inventory of fauna and flora. Making natural heritage known is also a call to respect it. Therefore, this series of conferences also aims to raise public awareness on environmental issues.
The conferences will be led by researchers and scientists recognized nationally and internationally. Thus, over six consecutive Wednesdays starting at 3 PM, l’Artistique will open its doors to the public to attend these informative and free conferences.
Dates and Topics of the Conferences:
- November 8
Philippe Grandcolas, Director of Research at CNRS, Deputy Scientific Director of the Ecology and Environment Institute at CNRS: «The Museums and Natural Sciences: Sentinels in Times of Environmental Crisis».
- November 15
John Dolan, Emeritus Research Director at the Laboratory of Oceanography of Villefranche: «Antoine Risso and Jean-Baptiste Vérany, Naturalists Who Illuminated the Sea of Nice».
And Marie-Christine Maurel, Professor at Sorbonne University and the National Museum of Natural History: «The Arts and Sciences, at the Origins of Life Sciences».
- November 22
Jean-Félix Gandioli, President of the Friends of the Natural History Museum of Nice Association: «The Little History of Botany in the Alpes-Maritimes».
- November 29
Luca Barale, Researcher at the Italian National Research Council, Institute of Geosciences and Georesources in Turin: «The Geological Work of Antoine Risso».
- December 6
Jean-Michel Lemaire, Honorary University Professor, President of the Troglorites Association and attached to the Natural History Museum of Nice, and Frédéric Billi, President of the Association of Naturalists of Nice and the Alpes-Maritimes: «The Nice Region, a Land of Discoveries for Entomologists».
- December 13
Olivier Gerriet, Director of the Museum of Natural History of Nice: «The Collections of the Nice Naturalist School, a Memory of the Past for Current Research».
