The University has the honour of welcoming on campus Alison Reid, award-winning director, and the protagonist, Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, the first woman in the world to study giraffes and animal behavior in the wild in Africa.
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas – in fact, before anyone, man or woman had made such a trip – 23-year-old Canadian biologist, Anne Innis Dagg, made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to become the first person and woman in the world to study animal behavior in the wild on that continent. When she returned home a year later armed with ground-breaking research, the insurmountable barriers she faced as a female scientist proved much harder to overcome.
In this award-winning documentary film, Dr. Dagg offers an intimate window into her extraordinary life as a young woman and scientist, juxtaposed with a first-hand look at the devastating reality that giraffes are facing today. Her research findings ultimately became the foundation for many scientists following in her footsteps.
The screening will be followed by an Aperò where you’ll have a chance to meet Dr. Dagg in person, as well as the members of the panel discussion, Alison Reid, Franklin Trustee Kevin McNeely, and Franklin Faculty Katherine Roy and Patrick Della Croce.
Venue: European premiere of the documentary "The Woman Who Loves Giraffes"
Where: Franklin University Switzerland, Via Ponte Tresa 29, 6924 Sorengo
Date: Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Free of charge
For more info call 091/985'22'60 or contact Leslie Tedoldi at ltedoldi@fus.edu
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