Research paths : Elie Danziger

Modeling life in ecological devices! This is the research focus of Elie Danziger, a doctoral student at the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS) at CNRS, EHESS and Collège de France.

Follow his webinar "Why study life under a bell?"

This event, organized by the ChADoC association (Chercheurs Associés et Doctorants du Collège de France), will be held on June 22, 2022, from 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm, via Zoom (prior registration required) => https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-24kNF9MRjG0Sn0m2VX8jA

Webinar presentation:

Around the world, scientists are seeking to understand the natural functioning of ecosystems by confining them in artificially closed spaces. A case in point is the historic Biosphere 2 experiment in the USA, where a desert, a rainforest and an ocean have been reconstituted and isolated from the outside world. Why and how can living organisms be studied under a miniature dome?

Through ethnographic surveys of scientists and engineers, the research of Elie Danziger, a doctoral student at the Collège de France (Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale), focuses on the biological concepts, technical choices and institutional orientations that underpin such experimental projects, which, at first glance, are anything but natural.

His presentation will focus on the diversity of projects and objectives behind this apparent common imaginary of a closed world.