{"id":8222,"date":"2026-02-25T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/event\/philo-aux-bains-science-knowledge-and-mysteries-of-the-animal-body-with-virginie-jean\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:14:51","slug":"philo-aux-bains-science-knowledge-and-mysteries-of-the-animal-body-with-virginie-jean","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/aubp.ch\/en\/event\/philo-aux-bains-science-knowledge-and-mysteries-of-the-animal-body-with-virginie-jean\/","title":{"rendered":"Philo aux Bains: Science, knowledge and mysteries of the animal body with Virginie Jean"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if certain practices escaped the all-too-simple categories of “science” or “superstition”?<\/p>\n

What if, between technical gesture and intuition, between accumulated experience and mystery, there were another way of inhabiting the world?<\/p>\n

As part of the Festival Histoire et Cit\u00e9<\/a>, whose theme for 2026 is “Comme par magie” (As by magic), Philo aux Bains is delighted to welcome Virginie Jean, cow whisperer.<\/p>\n

In contrast to a strictly technical vision of animal care, his work is part of an ancient tradition: that of the “rebouteux” and “rebouteuses”, who, through touch, close observation, listening to the body and empirical knowledge often transmitted outside academic frameworks, relieve, heal and rebalance.<\/p>\n

Is it folk knowledge? An art of gesture? A form of magic? <\/p>\n

What does it mean to “care” when you’re working with living beings, in close proximity to the body?<\/p>\n

How can we think about these practices in a world dominated by scientific veterinary medicine? Opposition, complementarity, cohabitation? <\/p>\n

This meeting will be an opportunity to explore the tensions – but also the possible dialogues – between rationality and belief, tradition and modernity, the visible and the invisible.<\/p>\n

In the course of the discussion, we’ll also question our contemporary relationship with living things: what does caring for animals say about our way of being in the world? What is legitimate knowledge? Who decides what’s science and what’s folklore? <\/p>\n

The meeting will take place at the Bains des P\u00e2quis, on the pier, under the yurt. Free admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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