The series of encounters entitled “The travelling Genius : Italians Art, humanities, science … in the world”, is a space for discussion and cultural dialogue that the Italian Cultural Institute has developed especially for young Italians in world. Italians who, beyond any orientation, are the bearers of knowledge accumulated in Italy and diffuse the following, even without their knowledge, a provision or a vocation of ancient origin: the generous exchange of culture, comforted by a keen sense of human comprehension.
Over the past decade, in ecology, we have assisted to a gradual process of economic evaluation of the “services” we are constantly offered by the ecosystem we inhabit. Such new approach has generated several advantages from the point of view of scientific research and environment conservation, though without remedying many of the prejudices that impede a fair allocation of resources and jeopardize the feasibility of an important part of basic research. Stereotypes are numerous and big is the distance between sciences and the general public, particularly in the fields of biology and environment. Through some examples, this presentation intends to reveal how some research branches that apparently are an end in themselves, often led to extremely beneficial findings in the technological, environmental and medical fields. It also proposes to be a cause for reflection and dialogue about how the economic estimation of aspects of life that apparently have little to do with economics, can actually lead to the recognition of their real value and the development of a better environmental awareness.
June 16, 2017 – 6:30pm Free Admission
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield
Lidia Della Venezia graduated in Biological Sciences at Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, where she obtained a Master’s Degree in Biodiversity and Biological Evolution thanks to a dissertation project conducted at Universitat de Valencia. She is currently a PhD student in the Biology Department of McGill University, with an ecology project about the characterization of the risk posed by aquatic invasive species.
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