9h30–9h45: Registration, Welcome and Coffee
9h45–10h: Conference Welcome. Charles Pence
10h–11h: Keynote: David Sepkoski (University of Illinois), “Biodiversity Past, Present, and Future: Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction?”
11h–11h30: Federica Bocchi (Boston University), “What is ‘evidence’ in evidence-based biodiversity conservation? Potential, Actual, and Good Evidence in IUCN’s Red List”.
11h30–11h40: Coffee Break
11h40–12h10: Joeri Witteveen (University of Copenhagen), “Species Conservation, Classificatory Risk, and Adequacy-for-Purpose”
12h10–12h40: Michael Bennett McNulty, Max Dresow, and Lauren Wilson (University of Minnesota), “The Role of Conceptual Models in Ecosystem Conservation: Motivations and Challenges”
12h40–14h: Lunch Break
14h–14h30: Robert Frühstückl (University of Bielefeld), “From Species Richness to Multidimensional Biodiversity Change: Epistemological and Conceptual Shifts in Biodiversity Research”
14h30–15h: Oliver Lucier (Yale University), “Opening the Climate Envelope: The History of Climate Envelope Models, 1970–2010”
15h–15h15: Coffee Break
15h15–15h45: Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University), “African Mammals as Cultural Heritage: On Biodiversity in the Age of Decolonization”
15h45–16h15: Linde De Vroey (University of Antwerp), “Rewilding Between Recolonization and Re-Indigenization: Place-Based Rewilding as a Pathway for Coexistence”
16h15–16h45: Séan Thomas Kane (Binghamton University), “Royal Monopolies and the Ineffective Colonial Conservation of the Brazilwood Tree (1500–1570)”
16h45–17h: Coffee Break
17h–17h30: Carlos Tabernero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), “Fiction Film and the Construction of Visual Socio-Cultural Spaces for Biodiversity”
17h30–18h: Xinyue Liu (University of Oxford), “Sightings: The Role of Ghost Species in Accounting Biodiversity Loss”
10h–10h15: Arrival and Coffee
10h15–10h45: Tamara Caulkins (Central Washington University), “Artifice and Biodiversity in the Greenhouse: Unruly Plants and Complicated Climates in Early Nineteenth-Century France and England”
10h45–11h: Coffee Break
11h–11h30: Carlos Santana (University of Pennsylvania), “Pay Attention to the Shaved Bumblebee Behind the Curtain: Debiasing Field Collection of Biodiversity Samples”
11h30–12h30: Keynote: Alkistis Elliot-Graves (University of Bielefeld), Title TBD
12h30–14h: Lunch Break
14h–14h30: Clémence Gadenne-Rosfelder (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS]), “From Reduction to Preservation: A Long History of Genetic Biodiversity in Farmed Pigs (France, 1850–2000)”
14h30–15h: Brigid Prial (University of Pennsylvania), “Laboratory Work as Conservation: American Lab Scientists, Extinction, and the Proper Use of Chimpanzees, 1945–1980”
15h–15h30: Matt Przemyslaw Lukacz (Harvard University), “Epistemic Conflicts over Conservation by Algorithm and the Purpose of Social Science”
15h30–15h45: Coffee Break
15h45–16h15: Julia Nordblad (Uppsala University), “A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 1986–1997”
16h15–16h45: Shadrach Kerwillian and Gregg Mitman (Ludwig Maximilian University), “Disease as a Silver Lining? The Troubled History of Biodiversity and Health in the Upper Guinean Forests of West Africa”
16h45–17h: Conference Goodbye. Charles Pence and Max Bautista Perpinyà
