Ambra Zambernardi presents at the MMSH

Ambra Zambernardi, holder of the Région Sud/Iméra – Germaine Tillion Chair: Tomorrow, the Mediterranean for 2024-2025, is giving two lectures at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme in January.

Copyright: Eléa Ropiot – Aix Marseille Université

“EXPLOITER LE VIVANT” seminar

January 17th, 2025, 9:30 am – 12 pm, Salle Paul-Albert Février, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence

The exploitation of living things by human societies has conditioned the survival of animal and plant species, as well as their historical development. These uses of nature, initially motivated by food or the need to harness animal power, have also served recreational and scientific purposes. The capture of wild animals has fed circuses, street performers, aquariums and biologists’ benches, sometimes leading to the collapse of the populations sought.

At a time when Western societies are becoming increasingly reluctant to consume non-vegetable proteins, the study of the exploitation of living organisms brings us back to the study of the death of animals and the changes in practices that have accompanied it for several centuries.

Ambra Zambernardi will be giving a talk entitled: ‘A tutti li tunni circàmu pirdònu’. Mise à mort et respect du vivant chez les pêcheurs de thons.

“Art et sciences au service d’une pédagogie du vivant”

January 27th, 2025, 9 am – 5 pm, Salle Georges Duby, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence

Faced with the threats to global biodiversity, research policies are now encouraging the development of interdisciplinary approaches, the only ones capable of providing complex analyses of the many challenges posed by global change. For over a decade, the TELEMMe laboratory has been supporting dialogue between the humanities, social sciences and life sciences on a wide range of issues (marine biodiversity, pollution, representations of living organisms, sustainable fisheries). Within this framework, the use of the aesthetic dimension of nature has two main objectives. Firstly, it raises public awareness of the beauty and fragility of marine and continental ecosystems, and of the ways in which they can be protected. It also makes it possible to gain a better understanding of the representations of living things, which today give rise to a combination of awe, indifference and sacredness in our perceptions.

Ambra Zambernardi will be speaking at this Rectorat event on the theme: «Calar tonnara. La pêche aux thons entre arts et sciences ».