This series of lectures is devoted to putting into epistemological, historical and anthropological perspective the problems raised by the study of human actions consisting in "making the living". The objective is to shed light on the issues related to the contemporary development of life sciences and biotechnologies, based on research and reflections that the history and anthropology of sciences lead on their concepts, practices and representations as well as on their social and political uses.
This cycle is coordinated by Andreas Mayer (CNRS, Centre Koyré), within the framework of the CNRS-PSL Interdisciplinary Nursery "Domestication and Manufacture of Living Things" (https://domesticationetfabricationduvivant.wordpress.com).
From 16h to 18h, Collège de France, Site Ulm
3, rue d'Ulm, 75005, ground floor
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
(Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
System and Synthesis. Some Historical Reflections
Jeudi 4 décembre 2014
Alexandre Métraux (Archives Henri Poincaré, Université de Lorraine)
Le vivant ? Fabriquons-le ! Quelques réflexions épistémologiques
Jeudi 29 janvier 2015
Nick Hopwood (University of Cambridge)
Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud
Jeudi 26 mars 2015
Stefan Helmreich (MIT, Cambridge, Mass.)
What Was Life? Anthropological Answers from Three Limit Biologies
Jeudi 9 avril 2015
Soraya de Chadarevian (UCLA, Los Angeles)
Heredity and the Study of Human Populations:
Surveys and Registries as Tools for Genetic Control, c. 1960
Jeudi 21 mai 2015
Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter)
Making and Unmaking Living Populations
The Uses of Statistics Around 1900
Jeudi 18 juin 2015
Jessica Riskin (Stanford University)
L’horloge inquiète.
Une histoire dialectique de la science mécaniste de la vie