Title: Lecture by Professor Fabien Flori on French speaking communities in the Mediterranean
Date: Monday 28 June 2021
Time: 10:30
Venue: Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences (MaKS), Room 313
The French Subject Area of the Department of Languages and Humanities of the Faculty of Education, and the French Department of the Faculty of Arts, are pleased to announce a lecture on the theme of « La francophonie en méditerranée » (the presence of the French language in the Mediterranean region) by Professor Fabien Flori, of the Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli. The lecture will be held on 28 June at 10:30 in Rm 313, MAKS Building.
Fabien Flori is Professor in Applied Mathematics and has lectured at the Université de Corse and the French University in Egypt. He has had a long career in diplomacy, having occupied several important roles in foreign embassies and other high ranking entities.
Among these, he served as Director of the Central and Eastern Europe Regional Office of the Francophone University Agency (BECO-AUF), in which role he was in charge of relations with the affiliated universities of 23 countries. With the Francophone University Agency he set up the Romanian Academy’s Francophone Centre of Mathematics which operates in partnership with the French CNRS (The National Centre for Scientific Research), one of the world's leading all-encompassing research institutions.
As the International Technical Expert of the Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs in Egypt, he also contributed to the setting up of the French School of Engineering in Cairo, a project awarded the Cultural Grand Prix of the Institut de France. At the University of Corsica, Fabien Flori has also served as officer responsible for relations with European and Mediterranean Universities. He aims to discuss closer collaboration between the Université de Corse and the University of Malta during his visit to the UM.
Prof. Flori's Abstract
D’Athènes à Alexandrie, de Crotone à Cordoue, la mathématique a voyagé d'une rive à l'autre de la Méditerranée. Les mathématiciens d’Europe occidentale sont les héritiers d'une diversité culturelle dont le "Mare Nostrum" a été le vecteur. Le pisan Fibonacci ou le français Pierre de Fermat sont ainsi les continuateurs d’une pensée qui prend ses racines chez Euclide et dont les prolongements arrivent jusqu'à nous. Au fil du temps, la langue française a su trouver une place singulière dans cet écosystème et s'imposer comme l’emblème de la diversité dans une communauté scientifique internationale où l'anglais est désormais incontournable. La Francophonie méditerranéenne, du Liban au Maroc, alimente aujourd'hui la tradition de cette pensée mathématique francophone qui brille par sa réussite.