Presentation

Long-stay fellows at the Paris IAS meet every week to attend a presentation by one of their colleagues on their research project and to discuss the methods, research areas and perspectives adopted, in a spirit of dialogue and openness. Lasting three hours, these weekly internal seminars begin with a 45-minute presentation. They enable fellows to develop fresh perspectives on their research and encourage interdisciplinary and transnational discovery.

The aim of these discussions is to build fruitful, original and innovative dialogue between researchers from different scientific backgrounds.

Each presentation is followed by a critical commentary from a guest discussant affiliated with a Parisian university. The sessions are closed to the public, in the spirit of an academic seminar, and chaired by the Director and the Executive Director. The freedom of discussion they allow leads to productive exchanges.

Programme

On Tuesday October 13, the internal seminar will be devoted to Bram Büsher's research project, Rethinking capitalist development and its uneven relation to biological diversity in an age of extinction.

Bram Büscher is a professor and holder of the chair in the Development and Change Sociology group at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands; he joined the Institute in September 2026 for a ten-month visit. His research project examines how capitalist development and biodiversity have shaped one another, in an unequal manner, in the context of the sixth mass extinction. He is interested in the role of French science and institutions, from Buffon, Lamarck and Cuvier to the National Museum of Natural History, with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the evolution of the relationship between biodiversity and capitalist development, and their implications for the relationship between humans and nature in this era of mass extinction.

How to attend

This seminar is closed to the public.