Name：             
　JOULIAN, Frederic Joseph
Period：             
　October 11, 2023 – December 7, 2023
Affiliation：         
　Assistant Professor (Maître de Conférences)・
　EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Advanced School for Social Sciences)
Research Topic：
　From past and animals: another way to tell future.

Frédéric Joulian is a researcher at EHESS, the Advanced School for Social Sciences, in France. He works on the anthropology of nature, evolution, and technologies. He is also involved in different editorial processes, at improving the public perception of sciences by new ways to envisage field research with visual artists and authors of fiction.

During his stay at RIHN, he will organise a workshop with Yuko Hasegawa on "Museum, nature and culture" in order to facilitate new dialogues between Art and Science. In this dialogue between Kanazawa 21th century Museum and the RIHN socio-cultural issues related to anthropocene, he questions the strength and limits of the collaboration. In association with professors Abe Kennichi and Daniel Niles, as well other RIHN research projects (LINKAGE project, in particular), he will conduct different field explorations (in Noto and Izu Peninsulas, and in Yoron-Okinawa) with the aim to develop "Anthropographics" methods related to RIHN's projects.

He also writes a book, temporarily entitled... "Manual of beavers, ... chimpanzees, dolphins, crows, ... for sapiens entangled in the Anthropocene" in which he tries, through large animal tool-use examples, to show how animal (but also traditional human technologies in the long term of human history), have employed ecofacts, as well as artefacts, which can be an alternative model to respond to the climatic change crisis.

More information on research:
https://centrenorbertelias.cnrs.fr/equipes-de-recherche/chercheurs/frederic-joulian/
and biography:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D89RYYm8NZU