Regards croisés sur le vivant en société

Every 2nd Tuesday of the month between October 2024 and May 2025.

The Regards croisés sur le vivant en société lecture series brings together specialists in the humanities and social sciences, on the one hand, and in ecology and the environment, on the other, around major environmental issues, to broaden perceptions towards an interdisciplinary approach.

Next conference:

Living among green algae?

In recent years, algae seem to have taken on a dual public and media existence. Numerous initiatives are based on their astonishing properties, and hope to see them play a major role in food, health and decarbonization. But the social life of algae is also marked by their association with ecological concerns: pollution, biological invasions, the degradation of coastal habitability.

Bringing together algal biology and anthropology, Catherine LEBLANC (LBI2M, Roscoff) and Alix LEVAIN (Possible Seas-AMURE, Plouzané) will discuss algal diversity and its understanding, the chemical signals that brown, red and green algae mobilize in their interactions with their environment, and the complexity of the relationships they maintain with human activities today.

The cycle, offered in hybrid format, is broadcast live from the Maison des sciences de l'Homme.