Equality & Diversity : interview and online screening

Equality & Diversity : interview and online screening

Toutes deux post-doctorantes et membres du commité Equality & Diversity ENS, notre Elenora van Rijsingen et Tahnée Engelen (Département d’études cognitives) parlent, dans une interview croisée (en anglais) à retrouver sur le site de l’ENS, de leurs expériences personnelles en tant que femmes scientifiques, et de leur programme pour le changement et la promotion de l’égalité et de la diversité dans le monde universitaire.

Le groupe de chercheu·r·se·s Equality & Diversity ENS organise le 15 avril une projection en ligne du film « Picture a Scientist ». Ouverte à tous à l’ENS, elle sera suivie d’une table ronde autour de 6 invités.

About the film ‘Picture a Scientist’
PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries – including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists – who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all.

Screening and panel discussion on April 15
If you are a member of the ENS or PSL community, you can register for the screening and the panel discussion through this link. The film can be watched in the days preceding the panel discussion on April 15. The panel discussion will take place online, from 14:30 – 16:00 CEST, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions to our panellists. The panel consists of the following guests:
•   Marc Mézard (Director of ENS-PSL);
•   Françoise Combes (Professor in astrophysics at Collège de France, recent winner of the L’Oréal Award as Woman of the Year, CNRS golden medal in 2020);
•   Sonia Garel (Professor of Biology ENS and Collège de France);
•   Nicolas Coltice (Professor of Geosciences ENS, co-initiator ‘Did this really happen’);
•   Nadine Halberstadt (Research Director at CNRS/LCAR in Toulouse, President of the Association « Femmes et Science »);
•   Thomas Breda (Associate Professor at Paris School of Economics)

How to join the Equality & Diversity initiative (for the members of the ENS-PSL community)
Everyone is welcome to join our EDI Slack workspace to be involved in future events (using your ENS email address).
The other members of the organising committee are : Ada Altieri, Núria Catalán & Léo Varnet.