Sharing agrobiodiversity – The gaps between commons theory and implementation tools
The Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) in Montpellier (MSH SUD) and Toulouse (MSHS-T), the key challenges BiodivOc, RIVOC and Octaave, the University of Montpellier (Pôle AEB), Paul Valéry University (UPVM) and the doctoral school "Territories, Time, Society and Development (ED 60) are pleased to invite you to the next conference in the series Perspectives on Life in Society.
Everysecond Tuesday of the month between October 2025 and May 2026.
Challenges! It's time to face up to challenges. Poverty, health, food security, water, climate, biodiversity... All the indicators are flashing red, ecologists have even managed to put the concept of "planetary boundaries" on the international agenda, and scientists (some scientists, at least) are wondering how they can use their skills to help bring about "transitions."
It is in light of the challenge posed by this transition that Mathieu Thomas and Frédéric Thomas will compare their points of view, as a population geneticist and a genetic historian respectively, on the relevance (or otherwise) of applying the theory of the Commons to research on the subject of "cultivated diversity," in order to move beyond the dichotomy between formal and informal seed systems.
This series of lectures brings together specialists from the humanities and social sciences on the one hand, and ecology (in the broad sense) and the environment on the other, to discuss major environmental issues with a view to broadening perceptions towards an interdisciplinary approach.
Eight doctoral schools in Occitanie (ED58, ED60, and Gaïa in Montpellier; SEVAB and SDU2E in Toulouse; ED305 and ED544 in Perpignan; and ED Risques et société in Nîmes) offer the program to their doctoral students as part of their training (registration required via ADUM).
The primary objective is therefore "acculturation," particularly for young researchers (although the seminars will be open to the entire scientific community), and to show how the same subject can be studied in very different ways by different sciences. In the longer term, the goal is to encourage aspiring researchers to integrate interdisciplinary approaches into their everyday work.
The series, offered in a hybrid format, is broadcast live from the Maison des sciences de l’Homme.
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