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KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND DUTIES IN A FINITE PLANETThe Right Use of the Earth

This event is part of the Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University PSL-Environment Research Project on “Environmental

Humanities in the age of Anthropocene”, and is supported by the NYU-PSL Global Alliance.

Scientific CommitteePeder Anker > New York University

Stefan C. Aykut > Hamburg UniversityChristophe Bonneuil > EHESS, PSL

Luca d’Ambrosio > Collège de France, PSL Magali Reghezza > ENS-CERES, PSL

PROGRAM

KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND DUTIES IN A FINITE PLANETThe Right Use of the Earth

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The Right Use of the Earth I Day OneTuesday 29 May 2018

9:00 Registration

9:20

9:30

9:45

Welcoming speech: Alain Fuchs, president of PSL University I JAURÈS**

Conveners’ Introduction

Keynote I JAURÈSPlanetary Boundaries: the Science and the Global Policy Implications> Speaker: Katherine Richardson, University of Copenhagen> Chair: Stefan Aykut, University of Hamburg

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 Roundtable I JAURÈS

Planetary boundaries, Thresholds, Budgets as « hard data » for effective global environmental governance?

> Chair: Stefan Aykut, University of Hamburg> Participants: Katherine Richardson, University of Copenhagen I Sabine Höhler, KTH Royal Institute

of Technology I Oliver Geden, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg and SWP, Berlin IFrançois Gemenne, University of Liège/SciencesPo

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Roundtable I JAURÈS

La sûreté de la planète: esquisse d'une communauté de valeurs (en français)> Chair: Mireille Delmas-Marty, Collège de France> Participants: Laurent Neyret, University of Versailles I Cécile Rénouard, ESSEC Paris ICamila Perruso, University of Paris 1/Collège de France I Catherine Le Bris-Hervé, University of Paris 1

16:30 Coffee Break

17:00 Keynote I JAURÈS

In Our Hands? The Legal Organisation of the Anthropocene> Speaker: Jorge E. Viñuales, University of Cambridge> Chair: Luca d’Ambrosio, Collège de France

18:00 End of the first day

** Please note that Amphi Jaurès and Room 236A are located at 29 rue d’Ulm, while Amphi Dussane and Room Résistants are at 45 rue d’Ulm (see last page for directions).Please also note that the entry to 45 rue d'Ulm is located at 24 rue Lhomond.

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The Right Use of the Earth I Day TwoWednesday 30 May 2018

9:30 Plenary session I JAURÈSPlanetarization of the World, Planetarisation of Law?

> Speakers: Magali Reghezza, ENS and Luca d’Ambrosio, Collège de France> Chair: François Gemenne, University of Liège/SciencesPo

10:45 Coffee Break

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Session 2 I JAURÈS17:00 Nature and Law: Lessons from Indigenous Cosmologies

> Chair: Catherine Le Bris, CNRS/University of Paris 1Betsan Martin, Response Alliance and Linda Te Aho, University of Waikato I Living Well with the Earth: theWhanganui River Act of 2017.Ellen Kohl, St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Jaime Walenta, University of Texas I Is Nature a Persontoo?The legal and scalar movement of personhood as a tool for governing the Anthropocene.Cosimo Gonzalo Sozzo, University of Santa-Fe I The concepts of « Good Living » and « Long Last Development » inthe South-American constitutional case-law.Delphine Couveinhes-Matsumoto, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie I Indigenous PropertyRights in the Interamerican Court of Human Rights case-law.Émilie Gaillard, University of Caen I Towards a transgenerational legal matrix: tools and practices.Eugenia Kisin, NYU I Rocks, Earth, and Relations: The Anthropocene Between Art and Anthropology.

16.00 Session 3 I RÉSISTANTS18:30 Governing transnational commons

> Chair: Peder Anker, NYU.Martine Chalvet, Aix-Marseille University I Silva Mediterranea: A Mediterranean international cooperation. Margot Lyautey, EHESS I Nazi « Geopower »: expansion, experts and the right use of the land, 1930-1945.Jamie Linton, University of Limoges and Myriam Saadé-Sbeih, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - Geneva I Global water and its limitations.Anna-Katharina Laboissière, ENS I Collect, save, adapt: biodiversity repositories and archiving in times of ecological catastrophe.

18.30 End of the second day

11:00 Table Ronde I JAURÈS

Le droit, la terre et la Terre (en français)> Chair: Alain Supiot, Collège de FranceAugustin Berque, EHESS I La terre et la Terre : unequestion d’échelle et de devoirs.Giuseppe Longo, ENS I L’optimalité mathématiqueet le pilotage des hommes à l’aube de la TransitionDanouta Liberski-Bagnoud, CNRS I La faceinappropriable de la Terre. Une autre façon d'instituer lerapport au sol et aux choses (Kasena, Burkina Faso)Pierre-Étienne Kenfack, Universityof Yaoundé II I Limiter la braderie des terres d’Afriquecentrale ; un enjeu de portée planétaire.

11:00 Session 1 I ROOM 236AEarly Modern Geopower/Geoknowledge

> Chair: François Regourd, University of ParisNanterreJean-Baptiste Fressoz, EHESS IFrom the « sacred tree » to the « sacred earth »: naturaltheology, water cycle and climate change 1500-1700.Lidia Barnett, Northwestern University IThe Reformation’s Anthropocene: Gender, GlobalCatastrophe, and Embodied Geologic Agencyin Sixteenth-Century Italy.Sara Miglietti, John Hopkins University I« For our land and the whole of Europe »: localand global in early modern debates on climatechange.Lino Camprubi, MPI for the Historyof Science I Blue Planet: Science, Technology andLaw in the Emergence of the Global Ocean, 16th-19thcentury.

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The Right Use of the Earth I Day ThreeThursday 31 May 2018

8:45

9:00

Welcome

Plenary session I JAURÈSHow did we come to know we have global environmental problems? Knowing and governing the Earth in western modernity> Chair: John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania> Speakers: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, University of Chicago IImproving planet Earth in the 18th century.Christophe Bonneuil, CNRS/EHESS I Towards a history of geopower:up-scaling « resources » and « mankind », and the right use of the globearound 1900.

10:30 Coffee Break

12:30 Lunch

13:50 Session 1 I JAURÈSPost WW2, great acceleration, and the rise of the « global environment »> Chair: Christophe Bonneuil, EHESS/PSLMichel Dupuy, IHMC I Shortage of resources andpolitical model in the GDR.Peder Anker, NYU I How Norway Becamean Environmental Pioneer for the World.Sabine Höhler, KTH Royal Instituteof Technology I Terraforming Technoscience andEnvironment in Experimenting with Earth.Jeni Barton, University of Toronto I From SpaceColonization to Anti-Colonialism: The Life and Death ofNASA’s First Initiative to Study the Earth as a System.

10:45 Roundtable I JAURÈSStaging and debating the limits of the Earthduring the cold war> Chair: Marc Elie, EHESSMalte Rolf, University of Bamberg I « Limits toGrowth » in Soviet Perspective. Critical Discourses onmodernity in the USSR during the 1960s and 1970s.Ronald Doel, Florida State University I Graspingthe Limits: M. King Hubbert’s Concept of Peak Oil.Yannick Mahrane, EHESS I Governing the Earth’senvironmental limits to growth through economization:from the Paley Commission to the RFF,1952-1964.Egle Rindzeviciute, Kingston University I SovietPolicy Sciences and Earth System Governmentality.

10:45 Roundtable I DUSSANEClimate Justice and Climate Change Liability> Chair: Marta Torre-Schaub, CNRS/University of

Paris 1Antonin Pottier, Université Libre de Bruxelles IGlobal climate justice: principles to share the carbonbudget.Catherine Larrère, University of Paris 1 IIs anybody responsible for climate change?Agnès Michelot, University of La Rochelle IClimate Change and Vulnerabilities.Clémence Dubois, 350.org I The role of civil societyin energy transitions.

13:50 Session 2 I DUSSANEKnowing the Earth (18th-20th century)> Chair: Sara Miglietti, John Hopkins UniversityDaniel Andersson, Linköping University IImmanent Geology: Organicism and the Principle of Self-Organization in Earth Science.Etienne Benson, University of Pennsylvania IGeomorphology, Empire, and the Earth without History.Karen Holmberg, NYU I Mephistopheles on MaunaLoa: the volcano in early modern science and latecapitalist geoknowledge.Sébastien Dutreuil, CNRS I From Gaia’s physiologi-cal functioning to the planetary boundaries of the Earthsystem

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The Right Use of the Earth I Day ThreeThursday 31 May 2018

15:50 Coffee Break

18:00 Keynote I JAURÈS

Plantationocene: Life in Past and Coming Ruins> Speaker: Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz/Aarhus University> Chair: Christophe Bonneuil, CNRS/EHESS

19:00 End of the third day

16:10 Session 3 I JAURÈS

Governing a finite planet: states, markets or civil society?> Chair: Stefan Aykut, University of HamburgEsther Meyer, Gregor Schmieg and IsabellSchrickel, Leuphana University Lüneburg/Arizona State University I Platform Politics. NewDepartures for Climate Action?Adrian Macey, Victoria University of Welling-ton I Where Action Outpaces Law: Non-state Actors inthe Global Response to Climate Change.Diego Landivar and Emilie Ramillien, OrigensMedia Lab I Governing the Anthropocene throughlimits: should we use markets, law or gods?

16:10 Session 4 I DUSSANEPathways to sustainability: what scope for political action?> Chair: Oliver Geden, Max Planck Institute for

Meteorology, Hamburg and SWP, BerlinAmy Dahan, CNRS/EHESS I BetweenProspective, Utopias and Politics, how to thinka return to the Terrestrial?Judith Nora Hardt, University of Hamburg IEnvironmental security in the Anthropocene: betweenboundaries and normative pathways.Céline Granjou, IRSTEA I Soil, carbon and the prom-ises of « negative emission technologies ».Christoph Görg, Andi Maier, Melanie Pichler,Christina Plank, Anke Schaffartzik and FridolinKrausmann, Institute of Social Ecology,University of Klagenfurt I The GreatAcceleration – a challenge for social-ecologicaltransformations.

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The Right Use of the Earth I Day FourFriday 1 June 2018

9.30 Keynote I JAURÈSAnthropocenic Promises: The End of Nature, Climate Change and the Process of Post-Politicization?> Speaker: Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester> Chair: tbc

10.30 Coffee Break

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Keynote

Imperial modes of living: global capitalism, North-South relations and the limits of a planetary form of life> Speaker: Ulrich Brand, Universität Wien> Chair: tbc

18.00 End of the conference

10.50 Session 1 I JAURÈSUp-scaling and down-scalingthe « global » environment> Chair: Erik Swyngedouw,

University of ManchesterGerald T. Aiken, University of Luxembourg IUp-scaling and down-scaling, top-down and bottom-up:Critiquing the scalar imaginary of community low carbontransitions.Émeline Comby, Yves-François Le Layand Hervé Piégay, University of BourgogneFranche-Comté /University of Lyon 3 I Scalesand Constructions of Rivers. Temporal Approach of theRhône Riverscapes since WW2.David Blanchon, University Paris Nanterre ITranscalar water scarcity: Construction and political useof narratives about a « finite resource » in South Africa,1912-2017.Aníbal G. Arregui, University of Vienna I Worldson a Body Scale. Amazonian Socioclimatic Outreaches.Mauve Létang, University Paris-Sorbonne IGoverning the local commons through globaldiscourses - A map of the new geopolitics of localsovereignty in the Himalayas.

15:30 Session 3 I JAURÈS

Life, soils and undergrounds as sites of limits/abundance construction> Chair: Birgit Müller, EHESSSébastien Chailleux, Centre Émile Durkheim IIncrease inventory, control downstream flows:Politicization of the underground and conflictualdefinition of the limits of Earth.Nelly Leblond, University Montpellier 3 IGoverning global agriculture through yield gaps:Rise and frictions of a paradigm.Jasper Montana, University of Sheffield IThe weight of the world: Constituting an expert Leviathanfor global biodiversity governance.

10.50 Session 2 I DUSSANE

Concepts and norms in global environmental discourses> Chair: Frédéric Worms, ENSDonatien Costa, University of Paris Nanterre IEnvironmental conflicts in a finite world of the Anthro-pocene.Pierre Charbonnier, EHESS I Beyond limits fetishism:how to make sense of the « planetary boundaries ».Fabrice Flipo, Institut Mines Télécom IThe limits of the planet in political philosophy.Pierre de Jouvancourt, University of Paris 1 IThe rise of the Anthropocene concept in internationalarenas.Baptiste Morizot, Aix-Marseille University IPredation vs production in discourses on the right useof the earth.

15:30 Session 4 I DUSSANESituating planetary knowledge, temporalities and visualities> Chair: Bruno Latour, SciencesPoSebastian Grevsmühl, CNRS/EHESS IWhere on Earth are we going? The Great Accelerationand its visual antecedents.Alexandra Arènes, Society of CartographicObjects I De-black Boxed the Globe, Mappingthe Critical Zone.James Fleming, Colby College I A FraughtHistory of a Finite Planet: Problems and Prospectsof « Big History ».

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Localize your Conference RoomAMPHI JAURÈS I 29 rue d’Ulm - Garden Level

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Outside the conference

About Hervé Bernard. The Anthropocene is central to the work of Hervé Bernard, theoretician of the pictureand multi-talended artist : photos, sculptures, movies. Author of “Regard sur l'image”, a cross-sectional essayon the understanding of the image through visual perception, image technique and culture(February 2018),"The truth of forms, the truth distorts" conference at the National School of Magistracy. Member of the ofthe French Center of Color and the on-line magazine “TK-21 LaRevue”. Exhibitions and collections in Europe,the United States and Taiwan... www.regard-sur-limage.com

Legends of the pictures - p. 3 Left: Leviathan’s map © Rights reserved I Right: “Mal de terre” © Benoît Reeves - p. 4 Left:“Mapword from Mecca”, in Perles des merveilles et joyau des raretés, Ibn-al-Wardi (1479) © BnF I Right: “Les Parties de laterre” in Propriétés des Choses, parchment (1479-1480) © BnF - p. 5 Left: “Flammarion’s engraving”, anonymous woodcutprinting in 1888 in the Flammarion’s book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire © Wikipedia I Right, Ptolemy Word, chart(1448) © BnF I Below, Map representing major coal sites in the Word in 1913 © Rights reserved - p. 6 Left: Representation ofthe earth in the Renaissance period © Rights reserved I Right, Theodore Roosevelt portrait with globe (1903) © DSU Archive.