Meetings and conferences

• AUTUNNO in MUSEO (Autumn at the Museum)

  Every Saturday from 26 September to 24 October, at 5.30 pm, in the Sala Monviso (Cascina Vigna, Via S.Francesco di Sales 188, Carmagnola): book presentations and talks on natural history topics

  the full programme is here (PDF in Italian)

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• 25 July 2015, 6–7 pm Gary Voelker (A&M University, Texas) Carmagnola Natural History Museum, Sala Monviso Via S. Francesco di Sales 188, Carmagnola “Old stuff in cases and new samples in freezers: the importance of continued collecting. Case studies from African birds” “Vecchi esemplari nei musei e nuovi campioni nei freezer: l’importanza di continuare a incrementare le collezioni ornitologiche: Casi di studio relativi all’avifauna africana” The talk will be given in English, with slides titled in Italian and the possibility of simultaneous translation by an ornithologist of the GPSO.

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• 24 September 2014, 9–10.30 pm – Non solo rane e tinche: la ricchezza faunistica degli stagni di Ceresole d’Alba (“Not only frogs and tench: the rich fauna of the ponds of Ceresole d’Alba”), speaker: G. Boano, photographs: Battista Gai. Ceresole d’Alba (Cuneo)

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• 12 February 2015 – Come ti seduco l’insetto. Fecondazione entomofila eterogama delle piante (“How to seduce an insect. Cross-fertilisation of plants by insects”). Talk by G. Curletti at the Orto Botanico (Botanical Garden) of the University of Turin

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• 27 January 2015 – Le spedizioni entomologiche del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola (“The entomological expeditions of the Carmagnola Natural History Museum”). Talk by G. Curletti at the Liceo G. Baldessano in Carmagnola (Turin)

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• 27 November 2014 – “C’era una volta” (“Once upon a time”) – Talk by G. Curletti on rainforests and on his research experience on the “Radeau des Cimes”. Associazione Floritalia, Orto Botanico of the University of Turin.

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• 28 June 2014 – Swift & fun and “festival dei rondoni” (“swift festival”)

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• 21 June 2014 – “In piazza sotto i rondoni” (“In the square, under the swifts”) – Biology and ecology of the pallid swift – speaker: G. Boano, Carmagnola (Turin), Piazza S. Agostino, 8.30–9.30 pm

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• 24 January 2014, 8.45–10.30 pm – Lodi, talk “Rondoni: infaticabili volatori” (“Swifts: tireless fliers”) (speaker: G. Boano)

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• 16 November 2013, 9 am–6 pm – Carmagnola (Turin), Cascina Vigna, Sala Monviso – Meeting of the GPSO and the ANP on “Vertebrati terrestri dell’Italia Nord-occidentale” (“Terrestrial vertebrates of north-western Italy”)

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• 16 August 2013, 9 pm – Sant’Anna di Vinadio (Cuneo), Rifugio Alpino San Gioachino – “Uccelli delle Alpi occidentali” (“Birds of the Western Alps”) (speaker: G. Boano) – talk on the biodiversity of the birdlife of the Western Alps, in collaboration with the “Santuario di Sant’Anna di Vinadio” ———————————————————————————–

• 12 July 2013, 8.15 pm – Carmagnola, Piazza S. Agostino – Talk on swifts (speaker: G. Boano) – talk on the life of the pallid swift, in collaboration with Legambiente “Il Platano”

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• 29 June 2013, Carmagnola and Turin – SWIFT & FUN (BW and international meeting on swifts)