On Friday, March 15th at 8:30 pm, at the Le Paris cinema in Souillac, the Attac Lot association is hosting a film screening and debate featuring a documentary film directed by Jean-Marie Boulet and Philippe Worms: “The Arcouest Manifesto.”
The theme of the film revolves around researchers coming together in Brittany to reflect on their actions in response to uncontrolled techno-sciences and climate change.
After the screening, there will be a debate with P. Worms and Vanessa Lea, an archaeologist and research fellow at CNRS, who is also a member of the Political Ecology Workshop. The evening will continue with a shared drink.
The decision to gather researchers at Arcouest is not random. In the 1920s, a community of researchers made this their summer retreat, constructing homes. Among them were prominent figures in French nuclear research like Marie Curie, her daughter Irène, and her husband Frédéric Joliot. The film aims to bring together present-day researchers who share a commitment to shaping a citizen-led and democratic science, much like their predecessors.
The film is deemed necessary and urgent, at times dark but driven by the determination and enthusiasm of young researchers.
Camille Besombes (epidemiologist), Raja Chatila (AI), Pierre-Henri Gouyon (geneticist), Aglaé Jézéquel (climatologist), Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond (physicist), Alice Lebreton-Mansuy (biologist), and Dominique Méda (sociologist) have set out to draft a manifesto in just five days. This process leads to intense and controversial debates, interspersed with chilling archival footage such as that of Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
