Solution to sustain the green transition

On Thursday, November 14, at 12:00 PM, the workshop "Solution to Sustain the Green Transition" will take place online.

This event is the first 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 following sessions will be held on November 19 and November 26.

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: Costanza Ceccanti

12.00
Welcome and greetings from organizers and partners Circle U. Climate Knowledge Hub

12.10
Silent Spring - Chapter 1: A Fable for Tomorrow
(read by MS and PhD students)

12.15
Green Transition: advances and challenges through a long, complex yet vital journey
Sara Burbi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

12.50
Glyphosate, growers and recent policy
Deborah Piovan, Farmer and head of FNP association

13.20
What is the public opinion? Three questions for the public
student led activity

13.35
What the experts say
Giovanni Pecchioni, agronomist,
Lorenzo Tramacere, University of Pisa
Olga Kriezi, University of Athens

14.15
Q&A

14.25
The role of activists
Anne Jensen, University of Aarhus

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.