2020 will be the year of scientific outreach in Galician at the University of Vigo. This is the major goal set by the Language Normalization Area for the coming year. To achieve it, they have gotten to work, in collaboration with the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit, planning a series of activities taking place this week with several roundtables in Vigo and Pontevedra. These aim to show the university community and the general public a dual reality: that Galician is as valid a language as any other for doing science, and that science is a key field for language normalization.
A total of three roundtables will be held: one on Wednesday, the 20th, at 19.30h at the Faculty of Fine Arts on the Pontevedra campus, and two in Vigo on Thursday, the 21st—the first at 12.00h in the meeting room of the Ernestina Otero building, and another in the afternoon at 19.30h at the Juan Compañel Public Library (rúa de Joaquín Yáñez, núm.6).
The program of the En galego! Investigación e divulgación científica sessions begins today, the 20th at 19:30, in space 25 of the Faculty of Fine Arts on the Pontevedra Campus, with a roundtable aimed at contributing to greater visibility of science in the Galician language.
The debate will feature:
Lourdes Maceiras. Research Group in Medicine and Public Health
Ricardo Beiras. Marine Ecotoxicology and Pollution Team (Ecotox, CIM-UVigo)
Manuel Sendón. Researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts
José Andrés Santiago. dx5 – digital & graphic art_research Group
Paula Rivas Ramírez. Research Group in Endocrine Physiology and Neurophysiology (Neuroscience Laboratory)
Adolfo Cordero. Research Group in Evolutionary and Conservation Ecology (Ecoevo)
Ana Rey Cao. Researcher at the Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences
At the roundtable taking place on the Vigo Campus (meeting room of the Ernestina Otero building) on the 21st at 12h, the participants are:
Fernando Ramallo. Director of the Language Normalization Area
Manuel Ángel Pombal. Neurolam Group, Lamprey Neurobiology
Anxo Mena. Geological and Biogeochemical Oceanography XM-1
Marisa Castro. Mycology Laboratory
And finally, at the roundtable taking place in central Vigo (Juan Compañel Public Library) on the 21st at 19:30, the participants will discuss:
Xavier Simón. Research Group in Ecological Economics, Agroecology, and History
Alejandro Saavedra. SiDOR Group, Statistical Inference, Decision, and Operations Research (SiDOR)
Gustavo Bergantiños. Ecosot Group (Economy, Society, and Territory)
Xosé Manuel Pacho. AGAF: Association of Research Groups in Administrative Law and Philosophy of Law
