a Sabato 22 Novembre 2025
Seminario Ibrido (in presenza e su zoom)
New Perspectives on the History of the International Biological
Programme (1964 - 1974)
21-22 nov 2025, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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Organisers:
Mauro Capocci, University of Pisa, Daniele Cozzoli, Pompeu Fabra University, Fabio De Sio, Klinikum, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Provisional Programme
21 November
14:00 – 14:30 Welcome and introduction
Chair: Laurence Roche Nye
14:30 - 15:15
The National Academy of Sciences and the making of the IBP
- Daniele Cozzoli, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
15:15 – 16:00
Acclimatising Humans to new and future environments: Physiology and the IBP
- Vanessa Heggie, University of Birmingham
16:00 – 16:45
A Tropical Rain Forest's: Whole Ecosystem Modelling and the Missing IBP Biome
- Justine Holzman, Princeton University
16:45 – 17: 00 Coffee Break
Chair: Vanessa Heggie
17:00 – 17:45
National Imperatives and International Ambitions in the IBP Tundra Biome Research Program
- Peder Roberts, University of Oslo
17:45 – 18:30
The Czech participation in the IBP
- Doubravka Olsakova, Charles University, Prague
18:30 – 19:15
Envoys for mankind. Participation of Soviet space scientists in the Human Adaptability section of the International Biological Program
- Laurence Roche Nye, Université Paris Nanterre - CRPM
20:30 Dinner
22 November
Chair: Mauro Capocci
09:00 – 09:45
Between International and Bilateral: The International Biological Programme and Its Legacy in South Korea
- Jaehwan Hyun, Pusan National University, South Korea (online)
09:45 – 10:30
Dermatoglyphics and the IBP Human Adaptability program in Australia
- Michelle Bootcov and Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales, Australia, (online)
10: 30 – 10:45 Coffee break
Chair: Doubravka Olsakova
10:45 – 11:30
Neocolonial exploration in the era of social democratic decolonisation: Michael Ward, Bhutan and the British contribution to the International Biological Programme.
- George Severs, Geneva Graduate Institute
11:30 – 12:15
Italian Genetics in the International Biological Program. Giuseppe Montalenti between global trends and local traditions
- Mauro Capocci, Università di Pisa & Fabio De Sio, Klinikum, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
12:15 – 13:00
From the International Biological Programme to the Mediterranean Action Plan: towards a history of marine systems ecology in the Mediterranean Sea
- Pablo Lima, University of Seville
13:00 – 14:00 Conclusions