Category: Agenda

Jean-Noël Jouzel (CSO) and Giovanni Prete (IRIS)

January 13, 2026. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Jean-Noël Jouzel (CSO) and Giovanni Prete (IRIS) to discuss their book “L’agriculture empoisonnée. Le long combat des victimes des pesticides”, Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2024. Introduction to the discussion by Isaac Bariller.

Prescribing and maintaining in public spaces: Challenges for developers

December 12, 2025. Seminar ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’: Prescribing and maintaining in public spaces: Challenges for developers.A change of scenery for this eighth session as the seminar moves to Coeur Défense to meet with the Paris La Défense teams. Our two speakers are David Guerra and Damien Oberlé. And we will have the pleasure of welcoming Daniel Florentin, a researcher from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, who will kick off the discussion.

Arpentage & Écriture. STS Reading Workshop #4

December 11, 2025. The workshop aims to provide a welcoming space for young researchers of all disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in the study of science and technology in France. The workshop offers a forum for discussion based on group readings, fundamental concept discussions, and STS writing practices.
Atelier #4: “Notre nouvelle nature : Guide de terrain de l’Anthropocène”, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena & Feifei Zhou, Seuil, 2025.

Doctoral thesis defense of Carole-Anne Tisserand

December 9, 2025. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL) is pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Carole-Anne Tisserand “The Politics of Co-construction: Post-It Citizen and Flexible Innovation. The Case of the Paris Smart Region”. Doctoral thesis specialized in STS (Sciences, Technologies & Society), prepared at Mines Paris – PSL, under the Social Sciences programme of SDOSE doctoral school, “Sciences of Decision, Organizations, Society and Exchange”.

Doctoral thesis defense of Abdoulaye Diaw

December 2, 2025. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL) is pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Abdoulaye Diaw “The construction of the contemporary bulk market in France. From customer attraction strategies to environmental issues”. Doctoral thesis specialized in STS (Sciences, Technologies & Society), prepared at Mines Paris – PSL, under the Social Sciences programme of SDOSE doctoral school, “Sciences of Decision, Organizations, Society and Exchange”.

Léo Magnin (LISIS)

November 25, 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Léo Magnin (LISIS) to discuss his book “La vie sociale des haies. Enquête sur l’écologisation des mœurs”, La Découverte, 2024. Introduction to the discussion (tbcà.

Bruno Turnheim

November 18, 2025. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3, UMR CNRS 9217, Mines Paris-PSL) has the pleasure of inviting you to attend the HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in STS (Sciences, Technologies, Societies) defense of Bruno Turnheim (LISIS/INRAE, University of Manchester). Original dissertation title: Things falling apart: Handling destabilisation and its patterns.

Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna)

November 17, 2025. The seminar organized by CSI and LISIS welcomes Ulrike Felt (Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna) to discuss her book “Academic Times: Contesting the Chronopolitics of Research”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. Discussants are Lucas Brunet (LISIS) and Didier Torny (CSI).

Arpentage & Écriture. STS Reading Workshop #3

November 14, 2025. The workshop aims to provide a welcoming space for young researchers of all disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in the study of science and technology in France. The workshop offers a forum for discussion based on group readings, fundamental concept discussions, and STS writing practices.
Atelier #3: This session, organized in the form of an “Arpentage / Exploration”, will be devoted to “Politiques de la nature. Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie”, Bruno Latour, La Découverte, 1999.