Organized by Christophe Bonneuil
Place : Grand amphithéâtre du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. Paris
With the support of :
the ANR BioTEK project ; the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle ; the Centre A. Koyré de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques ; the IDDRI (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales) ; the RUCHE (réseau universitaire de chercheurs en histoire environnementale) ; and the DIM R2DS
Registration : 60€ for academics, 30€ for students ; 100€ for companies (early registration is closed)
Outline :
This conference will address the transformation and the plurality of scientific framings of biological diversity since the late 19th century and analyse the changing ways of measuring, representing, modelling and managing biodiversity. A focus will be given to the plurality of scientific cultures that framed and reframed the conservation motto in national and international contexts (North and South), and on dynamics of co-production of scientific knowledge and conservation policies.
Programme
1st day - Dec. 11.
Introduction
by Christophe Bonneuil (Ctre Koyré, Cnrs)
9h30-12h30 Introductory session.
FROM NATURE PRESERVATION/CONSERVATION TO BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
Chair : François Sarrazin (UPMC & MNHN)
From Nature protection to Biodiversity management
by Patrick Blandin (MNHN)
Past and future of scientific knowledge about Biodiversity
by Michael Soulé (UC Santa Cruz)
Learning to Think Like a Planet : Saving Biodiversity in an Uncertain and Changing World
by Bryan Norton (GeorgiaTech) and Paul Hirsch (Syracuse Univ.)
12h30-14h lunch
14h-18h Second session
CONSERVATION KNOWLEDGE AND POLICIES FROM COLONIALISM TO "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT"
Chair : Florian Charvolin (Cresal, Cnrs)
Nature conservation in the colonial Empires
by Frédéric Thomas (IRD)
IUCN’s changing visions of conservation since 1948
by Yannick Mahrane (Ctre Koyré)
The ex situ / in situ debate : thoughts and arguments of 1960s Plant Genetic Resources movement and beyond
by Robin Pistorius (Facts of Life)
Knowledge and Culture in Crop Evolution : The History of Scientific Understandings of Maize Diversity
by Steve Brush (UC Davis)
2nd day - Dec. 12.
9h30-12h30 Third session
Nature as “resource”, “system”, “network” and “value”
Chair : Donato Bergandi (Ctre Koyré, MNHN)
From systems to intersecting processes in the analysis of ecological complexity, from WWII to the 90s
by Peter Taylor (U. Mass. Boston)
Post-modern science ? Modelling nature from the International Biology Program to the International Geosphere-Biology Program
by Chunglin Kwa (U. Amstredam)
The Clash of Spontaneous Orders : From Economy of Nature to the Financialisation of Ecosystems Services
by Jeremy Walker (U. T. Sydney)
Life as stock, life as flows. Liquid modernity, connexionism and the shift from ‘genetic resources’ to ‘crop biodiversity’
by Christophe Bonneuil (Cnrs)
12h30-14h lunch
14h-18h Fourth session
Expertise and metrologies in the governance of biodiversity
Chair : Catherine Aubertin (IRD)
Mobilizing science for decision : the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning)
by Lucien Chabason (IDDRI)
Ecological solidarity : a scientific framework for emerging conservation policy
by John Thompson (Cefe) and Raphaël Mathevet
Managing Biodiversity form global to local : the ‘ecosystem approach’ at the Convention on Biological Diversity
by Monica Castro (Ehess) and Guillaume Ollivier (Inra)
Conservation’s policy metrologies : an anthropology of the proliferating metrics of accountability in conservation
by Pete Brosius (U. Georgia)