A provocative book or a provocative woman?

On Tuesday, November 26, at 12:00 PM, the workshop "A provocative book or a provocative woman?" will take place online.

This event is the last in a series of three workshops titled "SEGRETI - Science, Environment and Gender: The Reception of 'Silent Spring' Nowadays", dedicated to Rachel Carson’s work, which has been fundamental to environmental movements and the promotion of more environmentally friendly agriculture.

The project “SEGRETI” is one of the winner of the Circle U. Seed Funding Scheme 2023 call. The project is led by Claudia Pisuttu, researcher at the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Agro-Food Sciences of the University of Pisa, and co-led by two other partners in the Circle U. Alliance, the universities of Aarhus and Belgrade.

This workshop celebrates not only Rachel Carson as a mother of change, but a woman scientist who had (or still have) the opportunity to leave the mark. During the event, a documentary will be developed as a useful tool to raise awareness about gender disparity, giving the opportunity to promote the Circle U. principles and events on social media.

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Programme

Chair: Sabrina Tomasi

12.00
Opening greeting and brief introduction to the day’s theme
Elettra Stradella

12.10
Rachel Carson (life, story, in brief) and woman
Giovanna Vingelli

12.40
Pioneers of emancipation
Student led activity

12.55
Woman’s role in rural areas

13.20
Ecofeminism and women-nature deep connection
Chiara Saponaro

13.45
Researchers telling themselves

14.30
Q&A

14.50
Conclusions

SEGRETI

SEGRETI is a multisession online workshop divided in three appointments at lunch time to celebrate Rachel Carson and her most famous literary work “Silent Spring”. Since this book contributed to a change in the pesticide policies, leading to the establishment of environmental movements and to the ban on dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), session 1 (“Solutions to sustain the green transition”; Climate Knowledge Hub) will focus on advances in sustainability of agricultural and productive processes, while sessions 2 (“DDT and human health”; Global Health Knowledge Hub) will explore the use of agrochemicals through history by ranging from initial benefits to the current evidence of harm. In the framework of Carson’s operate, she was dismissed as an amateur and not a professional scientist (despite she was a biologist): since nowadays gender disparities in scientific careers and the attribution of relevant roles in public/private agencies still persist, the session 3 (“A provocative book or a provocative woman?”; Democracy Knowledge Hub) aims to give an overview of significant figures and the analysis of the current challenges of women scientists.