THEORIES OF EVOLUTION AND THEIR APPLICATIONS: HISTORY

THEORIES OF EVOLUTION AND THEIR
APPLICATIONS: HISTORY OF SCIENCE
AND HISTORY OF POPULATIONS,
18th – 21st CENTURIES
Conference
MAY 16TH – MAY 18TH, 2013
Venue:
Sciences Po, Salle Goguel
(Fifth Floor)
56 rue des Saints Pères, Paris 7
Co-Sponsored by
The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies
Centre d’études européennes de Sciences Po
(CEE)
Etudes Sociales et Politiques des Populations, de
la protection sociale et de la santé (ESOPP-CRH)
Fondation Pierre Simon
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013
2:00 pm
WELCOME
Jessica Riskin (Stanford University) and Paul-André
Rosental (Sciences Po)
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
PANEL 2 – PRESENTATIONS AND VARIETIES OF
EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
PANEL 1 – EUGENIC APPLICATIONS OF
EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES
Chair: Mikhaïl Xifaras (Sciences Po)
• Emmanuel Betta (Sapienza University of Rome)
“Eugenics and the Discourse of the Catholic
Church”
• Isabelle Konuma (INALCO)
“Eugenics in Japan in the 1990’s: A Turning
Point?”
• Fabrice Cahen (EHESS)
“Génétique, médecine reproductive et
eugénisme: le ‘conseil’ aux couples, instrument
de tri biologique? (France, 1945-1980)” (English
summary available)
• Anne Cottebrune (University of Giessen)
“Conceptualisations et reconfigurations de la
prévention génétique dans la République
Fédérale d’Allemagne – Continuités et
évolutions des discours et pratiques liés au
Conseil en génétique, 1968-1989” (English
summary available)
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm
BREAK
Chair: Bruno Latour (Sciences Po)
• Pietro Corsi (Oxford University)
“Voices from the Margins: Early Debates on Life
in France, 1790’s – 1820’s”
• Greg Priest (Stanford University)
“Metaphor and the Evolved Mind: The Case of
Darwin’s ‘Tree of Life’
• Paul-André Rosental
“Poetizing and Implementing Eugenics: The
Alsatian Ibsen’s human garden”
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
PANEL 5 – ROUNDTABLE
Introduction by Jessica Riskin and Paul-André
Rosental
Chair: Perrine Simon-Nahum (CNRS/CESPRA)
• Charles de Miramon (CNRS/CRH)
“The Word ‘Race’: Spain and France in the 15th
Century”
• Luc Berlivet (CNRS/CERMES)
“Conflicting Influences? Heredity and
Environment in the Development of Italian
Population Sciences ”
• Snait Gissis (Tel Aviv University)
“The Israeli Population-Geneticists’
Conceptualization of ‘Jewish Difference’
(1945-2012)”
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013
Chair: Paul-André Rosental
9:30 am – 12:00 am
PANEL 4 – LAMARCKISM AND ANTI-LAMARCKISM,
PAST AND PRESENT
7:00 pm
COCKTAIL
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
BREAK
2:30 pm – 5:30 pm
PANEL 3 – RACE AND RELIGION
6:00 pm
KEYNOTE
• Paul Weindling (Oxford-Brookes University)
“Human Experiments under National Socialism
as Applied Evolution: A Total Population
Approach”
• Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University) and Marion
Lamb (University of London)
“Applying Epigenetics to 21st Century
Evolutionary Theory”
Chair: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université
Panthéon Sorbonne Paris I)
• Jessica Riskin
“How the Mouse Lost its Tail: A Brief History of
Lamarckophobia”
• Stéphane Tirard (Université de Nantes)
“Do Current Epigenetic Theories Need
Lamarck?”
Contact
Jessica Riskin, [email protected]
Paul-André Rosental, [email protected]
Isabelle Collignon, [email protected]