Program (subject to changes)
Wednesday 22 September
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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13.00 |
Introduction to the symposium
Esther Turnhout: Only what is counted counts? Representing biodiversity and its implications |
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13.30 |
Key note lecture
Steve Hinchcliffe: Living with Birds |
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14.45 |
Tea |
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15.15 |
Session 1: Conservation, politics, and knowing nature
Jamie Lorimer: (Re)turn to the wild? The fraught biopolitics of European rewilding and cattle de-domestication
Anna Lawrence: Habitat dynamics, policy dynamics: the UK Biodiversity Action Plan and forest removals on heathland
Bettina van Hoven: ‘Knowing’ the Great Bear Rainforest: the roles of actors, values and knowledges in the management of Canada’s coastal temperate rainforest
Claire Waterton: Creating a new collective... and its possible relevance for ‘biodiversity’ |
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17.15 |
End of day |
Thursday 23 September
|
08.30 |
Coffee |
|
09.30 |
Session 2: Archives of knowledge and representation
Katja Neves: The great botanical transformation - Beyond the Erudire Greenhouse and into the world
Rebecca Ellis: Life forms and forms of life: breeding cryptic species and converting parataxonomists for global biodiversity
Kathryn Yusoff: Archives of life: banal violence and exuberant presence |
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11.00 |
Coffee |
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11.30 |
Session 3: Volunteers in biodiversity recording and conservation
Marleen Buizer: Public involvement in ecological restoration: volunteering for novel ecosystems or historical analogues?
Morgan Meyer: Caring for weak ties - on the boundaries and partial connections between amateurs and professionals
Kezia Barker: ‘Does it look like Madonna’s bra?’: Biosecurity surveillance and the construction of biological threat |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00 |
Session 4: The role of natural history museums
Johannes Vogel: 21st century Natural History – diverse, relevant and accessible
Paul Voogt: Live science: towards the open museum |
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15.00 |
Closing of the symposium, possibility for museum visit |
Confirmed speakers:
- Anna Lawrence: Head of Social Research, the United Kingdom Forestry Commission
- Jamie Lorimer: Lecturer, department of Geography, King’s College London
- Katja Neves: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
- Marleen Buizer: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Climate Change Woodland and Forest Health, Murdoch University, Western Australia
- Rebecca Ellis: Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
- Morgan Meyer: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Center for Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris Tech, France
- Bettina van Hoven: Assistant Professor Cultural Geography, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Kathryn Yusoff: Lecturer, department of Geography, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
- Kezia Barker: Lecturer in Science and Environmental Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
- Claire Waterton: Senior lecturer, department of Sociology, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
- Johannes Vogel: Program leader UK Biodiversity, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
- Paul Voogt: Director Public Programmes, NCB-Naturalis, The Netherlands
This symposium is based on invited presentations. Confirmed speakers are listed above. Each thematic session will consist of three to four presentations. Topics of the sessions and presentations include amongst others: biodiversity and public engagement, biodiversity databases, the politics of biodiversity, public displays of biodiversity, natural history museums and botanical gardens. The full programme, including themes of the sessions, speakers, and titles and abstracts of the presentations will be made available soon.