Scienc.e.s: No science without us! is both an academic conference and an activist event. In line with this hybrid nature, it has hybrid objectives:
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It is a space to connect social sciences, experimental sciences and theoretical sciences, around common issues of intersectionnal oppressive systems* in academia.
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It is a space for people oppresed by those systems to gather, speak out about their experiences, or simply share their research in a safer space.
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It is also a space to connect who fight under common values of social and environmental justice in order to create a brighter tomorrow in academia and elsewhere.
*Discriminations based on race, gender, class, sex, caste, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, disability, age, weight, as well as intersectionnal discrimination systems.
2025 Edition
Important information
When? On 13 November 2025.
Where? At the Center for Integrative Biology, in Toulouse (see Map).
Who is it for? Anyone related to or interested in academia is welcome!
If you are doing research on inclusivity, if you are an oppressed minority in academia, if you work on a project promoving Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in academia, we have a timeslot dedicated to short talks so do not hesitate to propose one!
The event is free for both speakers and attendees.
Registration is mandatory: if you cannot use ScienceConf, contact us directly by e-mail.
Our plenary speakers
Marc Jahjah (LAMO, Nantes) - Sciences, intellectual activism intellectuel and public space: the experience of a queer-of-color researcher on social media (LAMO, Nantes)
How can you conduct meaningful research when you are queer of color and choose to do so in digital spaces? For several years, I have been exploring social media (Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube) as a field and a workshop: I have developed forms, gestures, and narratives that seek to disrupt racial and gender scripts, make minority experiences visible, and resist the symbolic or material violence that accompanies them. This practice has led me to invent a repertoire of struggle that combines scientific inquiry, media performance, and public interventions. My presentation will revisit this journey, between exposure and protection, between theory and creation, between the expectations of the university and political urgencies. I will show how social media can become not only a space for dissemination, but a place of research in itself: a laboratory where modes of intervention, disidentification, and recoding of relations of domination are invented. Behind the visibility and controversy, it is also a question of holding together a quest for justice and a way of life—an intellectual activism that does not separate knowledge from life, and which seeks, through fragile and obstinate forms, to open up new horizons of thought and relationship.
Lucie Longuet (ERMES, Nice) - Policies to fight sexual and gender-based violence in academia
Description coming soon.
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