Conference day organized by the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation, at the Institute of Human Paleontology in Paris , on Thursday, June 19, 2014, on the scientific work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and its current impact. 

– Program –

9h45 – Welcome, by Professor Henry de Lumley, Director of the Institute of Human Paleontology, Albert I Prince of Monaco Foundation.

10h00 – 10h30 : Teilhard de Chardin in China, 1923-1940, by Amélie Vialet, Senior Lecturer at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre Européen de Recherches Préhistorique de Tautavel.

10:30 – 11:00 : Teilhard’s paleontological work on Ordos faunas by Professor Dong Wei, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Laboratory of Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

11h00 – 11h30 : Teilhard’s geological works in China, by Professor Michel  Faure, Professor at the University of Orleans, Institute of Earth Sciences,  Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

11:30 to 12:30 : Teilhard de Chardin’s contribution to the fauna studies at Zhoukoudian and Nihewan by Professor Tong Haowen, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

12:30 to 13:00 : The scientific repercussions of Teilhard de  Chardin’s paleontological work in Asia by Anne-Marie Moigne, Senior Lecturer at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre Européen de Recherches Préhistoriques de Tautavel, France

2:30 to 3:00 pm : Dating of archaeological sites in China since the time of Teilhard de Chardin by Professor Shen Guanjin, Institute for coastal and quaternary studies, College of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

3:00 to 3:30 pm: Contribution to the dating of the main stages of the morphological and cultural evolution of Man in China by Professor Jean-Jacques Bahain, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département de Préhistoire.

3:30 to 4:00 pm: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – The Pioneer of Palaeolithic Archaeology in China by Professor Feng Xiao Bo, Department of History and Museology, College of Applied Arts and Science, Beijing Union University, Bejing, China

4:00 to 4:30 pm: The hearths of the site of Choukoutien, Beijing, China, by Thibaud Saos, researcher at the European Center of Prehistoric Research of Tautavel.

16h30 to 17h30 : Discussions and conclusion.

5:30 to 6:00 pm : Refreshment