[Athena] Conférence internationale "Savoirs et pouvoirs de la biodiversité"

[Jean-François Picard <jean-francois.picard AT mouchez.cnrs.fr>]

Chers collègues / dear colleagues,
Nous sommes heureux de vous inviter à la conférence internationale sur les "Savoirs et pouvoirs de la biodiversité de Darwin à aujourd’hui", organisée par le projet ANR "Biotek" au grand amphi MNHN les 11 et 12 décembre (programme ci-dessous). N'hésitez pas à diffusez l'information aux personnes potentiellement intéressées.
Site web de la conférence (programme, incription...): http://www.bioteksuds.org/
A noter que l'inscription est réduite jusqu'au 30 octobre : 50€ pour académiques, 20€ pour étudiants; 80€ pour entreprises, comprenant deux déjeuners (Après le 31 oct, les tarifs sont: 60/30/100€)

We are delighted to invite you to attend the conference "Biodiversity sciences and policies since Darwin" organised by the ANR "Biotek" project in Paris in Dec. 11-12, 2009.
The conference web site is : http://www.bioteksuds.org/
Note that registration is cheaper for early birds till october 30th: 50€ for academics, 20€ for students; 80€ for companies including two lunches (late registration, after Oct. 31: 60/30/100€)

Cordialement / Cordially
Christophe Bonneuil, chargé de recherche au CNRS et chercheur associé SenS-Inra, IFRIS
Centre Koyré d'Hist. des Sciences et des Techniques

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Biodiversity sciences and policies since Darwin

Savoirs et pouvoirs de la biodiversité de Darwin à aujourd’hui

December 11-12, 2009
Grand amphi, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Organized by the BioTEK project

with the support of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, the Centre A. Koyré de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques, the RUCHE (réseau universitaire de chercheurs en histoire environnementale)

This conference will address the transformation and the plurality of scientific framings of biological diversity since the late 19^th 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.

 

Friday, Dec. 11.

9h. Welcome and introduction (Christophe Bonneuil, Ctre Koyré, Cnrs)

9h30-12h30. Introductory session.  From Nature preservation/conservation to biodiversity management. Chair : Pierre-Henri Gouyon (MNHN)

Patrick Blandin (MNHN) - From Nature protection to Biodiversity management

Michael Soulé (UC Santa Cruz) - Past and future of scientific knowledge about Biodiversity

Bryan Norton (GeorgiaTech) - Learning to Think Like a Planet: Saving Biodiversity in an Uncertain and Changing World

12h30-14h lunch

14h-18h. Conservation knowledge and policies from colonialism to “sustainable development”. Chair: Florian Charvolin (Cresal, Cnrs)

Frédéric Thomas (IRD) - Nature conservation in the colonial Empires

Yannick Mahrane (Ctre Koyré) - IUCN’s changing visions of conservation since 1948

Robin Pistorius (Facts of Life) - The ex situ / in situ debate: thoughts and arguments of 1960s Plant Genetic Resources movement and beyond

Steve Brush (UC Davis) - Knowledge and Culture in Crop Evolution: The History of Scientific Understandings of Maize Diversity

Saturday, Dec. 12

9h30-12h30 . Nature as “resource”, “system”, “network” and “value”. Chair: Donato Bergandi (Ctre Koyré, MNHN)

Peter Taylor (U. Mass. Boston) - From systems to intersecting processes in the analysis of ecological complexity, from WWII to the 90s

Chunglin Kwa (U. Amstredam) - Post-modern science? Modelling nature from the International Biology Program  to the International Geosphere-Biology Program 

Jeremy Walker (U. T. Sydney) - From Economy of Nature to the Financialisation of            Ecosystems Services

C. Bonneuil (Ctre Koyré, Cnrs) - Life as stock, life as flows. Liquid modernity, connexionism and the shift from ‘genetic resources’ to ‘agrobiodiversity’

12h30-14h lunch

14h-18h. Expertise and metrologies in the governance of biodiversity. Chair: Catherine Aubertin (IRD)

Lucien Chabason (IDDRI) - Mobilizing science for decision : the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning)

John Thompson (Cefe) and Raphaël Mathevet (Cefe) - Ecological connectivity : a scientific framework for emerging conservation policy

Harold Levrel (Ifremer, not confirmed) - Measuring diversity : a socio-history of diversity index and indicators

Monica Castro (Ehess) - The genesis and hegemony of the “ecosystem approach” at the CBD

Pete Brosius (U. Georgia) - Conservation’s policy metrologies : an anthropology of the proliferating metrics of accountability in conservation

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Christophe BONNEUIL
Chargé de recherche au CNRS et chercheur associé INRA, IFRIS
bonneuil AT damesme.cnrs.fr
http://www.koyre.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=194

Centre Koyré d'Hist. des Sciences et des Techniques (UMR CNRS-Ehess-MNHN)
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