Thời gian : 14:00 - 16:30, Thứ 4 ngày 17/4/2019

Địa điểm: Phòng 502, tầng 5, nhà A21, USTH-VAST, 18 Hoàng Quốc Việt, Cầu Giấy, Hà Nội 

In the framework of the Collaboration Agreement between USTH and College de France signed in 2017, USTH is honored to welcome Prof. Phillippe DESCOLA from College de France from 16 to 24 April 2019.

Prof. Philippe DESCOLA initially specialized in the ethnology of Amazonia under the supervision of Claude Lévi-Strauss, focussing on how native societies relate to their environment. He has published extensively on his field research with the Achuar of Ecuador and on the comparative analysis of the relations between humans and nonhumans, including images. He is Professor of Anthropology at the Collège de France and a Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Among his books in English are In the Society of Nature, The Spears of Twilight, Beyond Nature and Culture, The Ecology of others. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the highest scientific distinction in France. Prof. Philippe DESCOLA is a fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

We are pleased to invite you to a cycle of lectures by Prof Philippe DESCOLA at USTH as follows:

    

  Seminar “Bridging global environmental sciences and anthropology of nature”
      Time: 14:00 - 16:30, Wednesday, 17th April 2019
      Venue: Room 502, 5th Floor, A21 Building, USTH, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi.  
(For the attendance to the seminar at USTH, please kindly register at this following link: https://forms.gle/SYvpdUfuM5EZWNf28 )

 

Abstract: Prof Philippe Descola will present what is anthropology of nature to the public of USTH mainly composed by scientists from biology, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer sciences, artificial intelligence, astronomy, space and aeronautic, ecology, marine ecology, environmental sciences, ICT, etc. Hard science researchers usually have little idea of the constructionist approaches of nature by the social sciences. From this point of view, the Descola’s anthropology of nature will be very stimulating to overcome the so-called universal (modern) division between nature and culture and to show that in many cultures the world is not divided into two separate spheres. Philippe Descola will discuss how such approaches can help scientists to recompose an holistic world to better address contemporary environmental crises of Anthropocene.

Beside, during his stay in Vietnam, Prof DESCOLA will give also the seminars in USSH in Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City from 18 to 25 April 2019.