This interdisciplinary international conference, combining natural and social sciences, will provide an overview of recent research on domestication and forms of hybrid communities joining together humans, plants and animals in past and contemporary societies.

The conference will appeal to a diverse audience of researchers, but also to professionals studying aspects of the social relationships between humans and non-humans: how do we transform the non-humans and how does the non-human transform us?

Partner institutions

CNRS-PSL Incubator for interdisciplinary research projects: "Domestication and production of the living being", musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, University of Aberdeen, École pratique des hautes études

Organising CommitteE

Charlotte Marchina (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations), Charles Stépanoff (École pratique des hautes études), Jean-Denis Vigne (CNRS, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle).

Scientific Committee 

David Anderson (University of Aberdeen), Olivier Bignon-Lau (CNRS), Florence Brunois (CNRS), Carole Ferret (CNRS), Charlotte Marchina (INALCO), Perig Pitrou (CNRS), Charles Stépanoff (École pratique des hautes études), Jean-Denis Vigne (CNRS, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle), Frédéric Keck (DRE musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac).