Gaia and Earth System Science: scientific, historical and philosophical perspectives

Program

Thursday, March 24th

13h30 – Welcome of participants

13h40 – General introduction – Philippe Huneman (IHPST) & Sébastien Dutreuil (Université Paris 1, IHPST)

14h00-14h50 – James Kasting (Penn State University) – Long-term stability of Earth's climate 

14h50-15h40 – Andrew Watson (University of Exeter) – My voyage round Gaia

Break

16h00-16h50 – Timothy Lenton (University of Exeter) – Gaia and the history of thinking about Earth as a system

16h50-17h40 – Donato Bergandi (MNHN)- The Gaian paradox between ontology and methodology

Break

18h00 – Bruno Latour (Sciences Po)– Lovelock and Darwin, in which way can Gaia escape being one organism?

Friday, March 25th

9h00 – Welcome of participants

9h10-10h00 – Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (University of California, Santa Cruz) – Lovelock, Wegener, and maps in scientific controversies

10h00-10h50 – Sébastien Dutreuil (Université Paris 1, IHPST) – Genealogy of Earth System Science: history of the Earth, geochemistry and Gaia

break

11h10-12h00 – Giulia Rispoli – Pre-gaian thinkers: Vladimir I. Vernadskij and the foundation of biogeochemistry.

 Lunch

14h-14h50 – Ola Uhrqvist (University of Linköping) – Predicting GAIA - a history of the efforts to build one model to fit all.

14h50-15h40 – Laurent Bopp (LSCE) – On the use of Earth System Models in the last IPCC assessment report

break

16h00 – 16h50 – Chunglin Kwa (University of Amsterdam) - On what Big Science for ecology
was thought to achieve:  the changing logic of big global programs, 1960s-2016.

16h50 – Catherine Larrère (Université Paris 1) – An ethic for Gaia. Is anthropocentrism back?

break

General discussion – Chair : Jean Gayon (Université Paris 1, IHPST)