Opening Ceremony, IGU 100 Paris 2022
July, 18th 2022, 14:00 -17:00
Venue: Maison de l'Océan, 195 rue Saint-Jacques, Paris
This ceremony will be broadcast live on the Internet (https://vimeo.com/event/2248280/0dfc014e2e) and in the amphitheatres (2A and 3, Panthéon Sorbonne site)
Master of Ceremonies: Laure Noualhat, journalist, essayist
- 2:00 pm Video clip to launch the ceremony, opening by Laure Noualhat
Opening adresses and speech
- 2:10 pm Address by the Mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, Ms Florence Berthout
- 2:15 pm Speech by the Deputy Mayor of Paris, Ms Marie-Christine Lemardeley
- 2:20 pm Speech by the President of the University of Paris 1, Ms Christine Neau-Leduc
- 2:25 pm Speech by the President of the CNFG Amaël Cattaruzza
- 2:30 pm Speech by the Presidents of the Congress Organising Committee, Ms Nathalie Lemarchand, Mr Antoine Le Blanc, Mr Jérôme Verny
- 2:35 pm Speech by the President of the IGU Union, Mike Meadows
- 2:40 pm Speech by Mrs Véronique Roger-Lacan, Ambassador of France to UNESCO
- 2:45 pm Video message from Mr Peter Gluckman, President of the International Science Council
- 2:50 pm Video message from His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco
- 2:55 pm Video interlude 100 years of IGU
Keynote speakers
- 3:15 pm Ms Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO
- 3:25 pm Joos Droogleever-Fortuyn, Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam
Gender and Diversity in Geography
Studying, teaching and practicing equality and diversity in geography
- 3:35 pm Valérie Masson Delmotte, paleoclimatologist, research director at CEA and co-chair of IPCC group n°1
- 3:45 pm Emerging Thoughts in Geography by winners of the CNFG thesis award:
Alizé Berthier, PhD: "Urban birds? The conditions of a human-animal cohabitation in the Greater Paris ".
Ninon Blond, PhD: "Holocene sedimentary dynamics and agricultural terraces in the Eastern Tigray Mountains (Ethiopia):
evolution, trajectories and functioning of a palimpsest landscape for 8,500 years".
Laura Corsi, PhD: "Producing a geographic magazine on the Ponant islands: mediation between research, territories and television.
- 4:00 pm Musical interlude, by the Albaricate company. French song / Sign languages
- 4:20 pm International Geography Olympiad Medal Ceremony
Welcome address by Alexis Alamel, Sciences Po Rennes, chair LOC IGEO -2022
Presentation of the gold medals by Susan Lomas, Co-Chair, IGU Olympiad Task Force
Handover to Indonesia
- 5:00 pm End of ceremony