Campus Plus Mid-days archives

The autumn 2011 programme and some useful links

Monday 10 October: “Monumental trees of the campus”
Gérald Hess (Senior Lecturer at the FGSE), Laurent Robert (forest warden) and Patrick Arnold (UNIBAT)

Tuesday 11 October: “The tree, a source of music”
Jeanmichel Capt, stringed-instrument maker
Wednesday 12 October: “Tree symbolism in the Palestinian conflict”
Christine Pirinoli, Doctor of Social Sciences, UNIL
Thursday 13 October: “Reading of extracts from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden”
Boris Vejdovski (MER English section)
Friday 14 October: “The Dorigny forest ecosystem under the stress of air pollution and climate change” (in french)
Hans-Rudolf Pfeifer, Associate Professor at the FGSE
Tuesday 25 October: “Campus birds”
Sylvain Antoniazza, doctoral student in the Department of Ecology and Evolution
Links to websites: ornitho.ch and vogelwarte.ch

Tuesday 8 November: “The medieval forest: a space of laws or liberty ?”
Martine Ostorero, Associate Professor in the History section
Tuesday 22 November: “Tree based tales”
Stella Lo Pinto, storyteller
Tuesday 6 December: “Timber for building and thermal purification”
Markus Mooser, Director of Cedotec-Lignum