**Les voyageuses : Narratives of Migration – Study Day **

Study Day – Les voyageuses : Narratives of Migration
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Dominique Villars Botanical Garden (La Tronche) and La MaCI – University of Grenoble Campus

As part of The Travellers exhibition, this study day brings together artists, researchers, and heritage professionals to explore plant migrations, biodiversity, knowledge transmission, and the relationships between humans and plants.

The day will open with Pauline Boucharlat, Co-Director of imagespassages, and Eugenia Reznik, artist-researcher in residence at La MaCI. Manon Paul Traversaz, pharmacist and researcher-lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Grenoble Alpes University, will introduce the Dominique Villars Botanical Garden, a site dedicated to teaching, research, ecology, and ethnobotany.

Artist Antoine Pérez and Nicolas Villaume, Director of the Écomusée du bois et de la forêt de Thônes, will present Sowing the Sky, a collaborative project addressing socio-environmental issues through artistic and ecological practices. Laurent Perrillat, Chief Librarian and Deputy Director of DARSO (Research Support and Open Science Department) at Université Grenoble Alpes, will introduce Botalpes, a digital platform dedicated to Alpine botanical collections and resources.

In the afternoon, Joshua de Paiva, philosopher and researcher at Université Grenoble Alpes, will discuss the displacement of plants in contemporary art and the aesthetic challenges of engaging with the living world. Barbara Glowczewski, anthropologist, ethnologist, CNRS Research Director, and member of the Laboratory of Anthropology at the Collège de France, will present The Dream of Travelling Seeds, a lecture-performance developed with Antoine Pérez. The day will conclude with artist Juliette Suchel and Nathan Stevens-Cocco, Indigenous Botany Technician at the Canadian Museum of Nature and member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, who will present their collaborative research project on the historical, political, and social movements of plants across Canada.