Keynote Speakers
The Organizing committee is pleased to present the keynotes and panelists for the 7th CRISES International Conference.
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Keynotes
Marion Carrel
Université de Lille (France)
Marion Carrel is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Lille and the director of the Institute of Social Sciences (CeRIES). She coordinates the "Democratic Production of Knowledge" axis of the Scientific Interest Group Democracy and Participation and is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Social Movements (EHESS).
Her research focuses on citizenship, discrimination, and participatory research in working-class neighborhoods. She has published Faire participer les habitants ? Pauvreté, citoyenneté et pouvoir d’agir dans les quartiers populaires (Lyon, ENS Editions, 2013) and Talpin J. et al., L’épreuve de la discrimination. Enquête dans les quartiers populaires (Paris, PUF, 2021). She recently published “ Discreet Mobilizations Against Discrimination. Informal Participation in French Deprived Neighborhoods ” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 2022; “P; Pluralité des savoirs et puissance des injustices épistémiques. L’enjeu du pilotage et de la validation des démarches participatives,” SociologieS, [Online], 2024; and coordinated the issue Carrel M., Godrie B., Juan M. (eds.), Dossier '' Recherches participatives et épistémologies radicales '' Participations, 2022.1.
She is a member of the editorial board of Participations, the co-editor-in-chief of Mouvements, and a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology.
Jürgen Howaldt
Social Research Center Dortmund (Germany)
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Howaldt is the director of Social Research Centre Dortmund, TU Dortmund University (Germany), and professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences. He is an internationally renowned expert in the field of social innovation and co-founder and chair of the European School of Social Innovation.
In recent years, he has provided important impetus for the development of social innovation research and the formation of a scientific research community. He has lectured at numerous international conferences and published a number of books and scientific articles. Jürgen Howaldt has co-edited the Encyclopedia of Social Innovation , the Research Agenda for Social Innovation and the Atlas of Social Innovation .
He has been involved in a number of European research projects on this topic in various roles. He was the scientific coordinator of the global research project SI-DRIVE. At the same time, he has made important contributions to the integration of social innovation into a comprehensive innovation policy in Europe and beyond. He is currently working with a team of academics and practitioners to establish a national platform to promote social innovation in Germany.
Panel 1
Socio-ecological Transition and Experiments in Social Innovation
Tamatoa Bambridge
Researcher, Rāhui Center (French Polynesia)
Tamatoa Bambridge is a scientist specializing in legal anthropology and a research director at the CNRS. Since 2007, he has worked in a marine biology laboratory in Moorea. With over twenty years of experience in field research in several archipelagos of French Polynesia, his work focuses mainly on land and marine resource management, as well as legal pluralism in lagoon governance. He currently focuses on land and sea governance, analyzing impacts on community adaptation and resilience, using anthropological methods in the field. Dr. Bambridge is also a professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, the University of French Polynesia and the University of New Caledonia, and chairs the scientific committee of the UNESCO-listed Fakarava Biosphere Reserve. His current research focuses on the intersection of biodiversity, cultures and languages, and hybrid governance in marine ecosystems.Bertrand Fouss
Co-president, Transition en Commun (Canada)
Yenny Vega Cárdenas
President, Observatoire international des droits de la nature (Canada)
Yenny Vega Cárdenas, lawyer and doctor in law, is the president and co-founder of the International Observatory of the Rights of Nature. She is also a member of the expert network for the United Nations "Harmony with Nature" chapter. A lawyer in both Canada and Colombia, she holds a master's degree in business law and a PhD in North American water law from a Canadian university. Highly engaged in the protection of nature and water, she played a key role in the recognition of the rights and legal personality of the Magpie River, a historic first in Canada. She is currently leading a campaign to have the Saint Lawrence River in Canada recognized as a legal entity through the International Observatory of the Rights of Nature.She recently co-directed a collective work on the recognition of Nature and rivers as legal subjects titled ‘’ Une personnalité juridique pour le Fleuve Saint-Laurent et les Fleuves du monde ‘’. Her most recent work, Méthodologie et épistémologie du droit comparé, published by LexisNexis Canada, represents a further advancement in the innovation of law.
Panel 2
How to Create Breaches Through Research: A Conversation Based on the CRISES Experience
Benoît Lévesque
Université du Québec à Montréal
Co-founder of CRISES and director | 1986-2003
Benoît Lévesque is an emeritus professor at UQAM. He was co-founder and director of the Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales from 1986 to 2003. He served as president of CIRIEC-Canada from 1996 to 2000 and president of the Scientific Council of CIRIEC International from 2002 to 2010. He has published extensively, primarily in the fields of economic sociology, the Quebec model, social innovation, social economy, governance, and ecosystems.Juan-Luis Klein
Université du Québec à Montréal
Director of CRISES | 2009-2018
Juan-Luis Klein is a professor in the Department of Geography at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and has also been the director of CRISES (Centre for Research on Social Innovations).His current research projects include studying proximity culture in Montreal, exploring the contribution of cultural initiatives to improving living environments and supporting societal and ecological transitions, particularly through territorial cultural commons and the concept of "Buen Vivir." He is also working on new models of action in territorial development, aimed at transforming institutional environments and promoting social and territorial justice within the framework of societal transition. Lastly, he is involved in the Ateliers des savoirs partagés (ASP) 3.0, an innovative knowledge co-construction initiative for the revitalization of rural communities and the development of socioecological transition.
Sylvain A. Lefèvre
Université du Québec à Montréal
Director of CRISES | 2018-2024
Sylvain A. Lefèvre is a doctor in Political Science and a professor at ESG UQAM and at the Institut des sciences de l’environnement. He directed CRISES from 2018 to 2024, of which he has been a member since 2013. His research focuses on the transformations of collective action, the role of philanthropic foundations, and the issues of social and environmental justice. He is currently co-directing the Incubateur universitaire de Parole d’excluEs, with Grégoire Autin.