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.
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.
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.
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”.
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”.
The CSI organizes an annual reading seminar aimed at exploring innovative research questions, approaches and topics based on the discussion with the authors of books recently published or in the course of publication. The guests in this seminar series are French and foreign researchers in human and social sciences (history, anthropology, law, sociology, political sciences, Science and Technology Studies…). […]
How about some STS perspective (anthropology, sociology, philosophy of scientific knowledge and technological innovation) to capture the scientific and technological dimensions of fascism today? And the fascist dimensions of science and technology today? The “Science, Technology, Fascism” seminar is organized…
Title of the thesis: What Fragility Does to Architecture: Maintenance and Care of Hospital Technical Services. Supervision: Jérôme Denis. This thesis project examines what fragility does to architecture by studying maintenance and care provided by technical services in hospital buildings.In…
Title of the thesis: Fire regimes in the Fontainebleau forest. How are fires archived ? Under the supervision of Samuel Abiven (LG-ENS) and Béatrice Cointe (CSI-i3).
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.
