4:30 - 6:30pm
Symposium

Round table : The politics of nature

Yves Cochet, Roger Guesnerie, Jean-François Nogrette et David Western
Nature in question
4:30 - 6:30pm
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Participants:

    • Yves Cochet, Former French Minister for the Environment
    • Gaël Giraud, Chief Economist, French Development Agency - Will not be attending the round table
    • Roger Guesnerie, Collège de France
    • Jean-François Nogrette, Director, Veolia Water Technologies
    • David Western, President, African Conservation Center, Nairobi

    Debate moderated by Philippe DESCOLA, Collège de France

    Documents and media

    Speaker(s)

    Roger Guesnerie

    Professor at the Collège de France

    Yves Cochet

    Former French Minister for the Environment

    Jean-François Nogrette

    Director, Veolia Water Technologies

    David Western

    President, African Conservation Center, Nairobi

    Events

    Round table : The politics of nature
    Yves Cochet, Roger Guesnerie, Jean-François Nogrette et David Western

    Symposium
    4:30 - 6:30pm

    Opening of the symposium
    Alain Prochiantz

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:30am

    Phusis/Natura/Nature: Origins and Ambivalences
    Geoffrey Lloyd

    Symposium
    10:00 - 11:00am

    The Awakening of Nature in Sino-Japanese Buddhism : how plants and stones become Buddha…
    Jean-Noël Robert

    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:30am

    Enjoyment and domination. Metamorphoses of nature in late medieval Europe
    Étienne Anheim

    Symposium
    11:45am - 12:45pm

    " The vexations of nature " : the test of naturalisms between…
    Stéphane Van Damme

    Symposium
    12:15 - 1:15pm

    Natural law : constraint or construct ?…
    Alain Wijffels

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:30pm

    From universal Nature to singular natures : what lessons for the analysis of cultures…
    Philippe Descola

    Symposium
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    The question of returning to the soil and perverse universalism
    Bruno Latour

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:30pm

    Debate
    Alain Wijffels, Philippe Descola et Bruno Latour

    Symposium
    4:00 - 5:00pm

    Let the sentinels live. Transformations of biopolitics by virus hunters
    Frédéric Keck

    Symposium
    4:45 - 5:45pm

    From 1.23 % to 900 cm3, a small difference with big consequences
    Alain Prochiantz

    Symposium
    5:15 - 6:15pm

    The natural and the innate : a historical perspective
    Justin Smith

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:30am

    Can we speak of " human nature " in ancient Chinese thought ?
    Anne Cheng

    Symposium
    10:00 - 11:00am

    Nature, the subject of law ?
    François Ost

    Symposium
    11:15am - 12:15pm

    How to situate the spirit in nature ?
    Claudine Tiercelin

    Symposium
    11:45am - 12:45pm

    Debate
    Claudine Tiercelin et François Ost

    Symposium
    12:15 - 1:15pm

    The CRISPR-Cas system : a natural tool for improving and genetically marking bacterial …
    Philippe Horvath

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:30pm

    Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing to Investigate Mechanisms of Lineage Specification in Huma…
    Kathy Niakan

    Symposium
    3:00 - 4:00pm

    What is the relationship between the artificialization of nature and the law(s) of the living …
    Marie-Angèle Hermitte

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:30pm

    Debate
    Marie-Angèle Hermitte, Philippe Horvath et Kathy Niakan

    Symposium
    4:00 - 5:00pm

    Medicine versus nature: an acceptable battle ?
    Alain Fischer

    Symposium
    4:45 - 5:45pm

    Bioinspiration : better understand " nature " to create in ma…
    Clément Sanchez

    Symposium
    5:15 - 6:15pm

    Debate
    Alain Fischer et Clément Sanchez

    Symposium
    5:45 - 6:45pm

    Conclusions
    Philippe Descola

    Symposium
    6:00 - 7:00pm

    See also

    Opening symposia
    Nature in question