Author: Florence Paterson

Doctoral thesis defense of Mathilde Pellizzari

December 2, 2022. Mathilde Pellizzari will defend her thesis in Social Sciences, specialized in STS (Sciences, Technologies & Society) “Feasibility first: Trials and tactics of feasibility in the implementation of social impact bonds”. Doctoral thesis prepared at Mines Paris – PSL, Center for the Sociology of Innovation, under the Social Sciences programme of the EOS (Economics, Organisation, Society) Doctoral School

Digital Commons and Ecological Transition

This study day is organized by the working groups of the GDR Internet, AI & Society, Politiques environnementales du numérique [Digital Environmental Policy], coordinated by Clément Marquet (CSI, Mines Paris – PSL, i3) and Sophie Quinton (Inria, GDS EcoInfo), and…

Doctoral thesis defense of Cornelius Heimstädt

Cornelius Heimstädt will defend his thesis in Sociology, specialized in Sciences, Technologies & Society Feeding the world with an app: Digital agriculture, startups, and the appeal of little devices Ecole Doctorale EOS – Economics, Organisation, Society, Specialising in Sciences, Technologies,…

Digital Environmental Policies

The seminar is organized by Clément Marquet (CSI, Mines Paris / PSL, i3) and Sophie Quinton (Inria, GDS EcoInfo), as part of the Politiques environnementales du numérique [Digital Environmental Policies] working group of the GDR Internet, AI and Society.

For the past few years, the environmental consequences of digital technologies have been the subject of increasing attention, calling into question the promise of a convergence between ecological and digital transition.

Environmental compensation. Benoît Dauguet and Fanny Guillet

The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” will welcome Benoît Dauguet and Fanny Guillet Environmental compensation This session will question the tools and practices of valuation of nature that inform environmental compensation operations – that is, the supposed neutralization of…

Annemarie Mol (University of Amsterdam)

The CSI Guests Seminar will welcome Annemarie Mol Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body to discuss her book Eating in Theory Introduction to the discussion by Jean Goizauskas…

Research Seminar: Change of scale – Change of nature (2022)

The generalist and interdisciplinary seminar “Change of scale – Change of nature” is organized by the CSI and the Eco-anthropology laboratory of the Natural History Museum by Léo Mariani (MNHN, Eco-anthropologie), Julien Blanc (MNHN, Eco-anthropologie), Brice Laurent (CNRS, CSI) and Jean Goizauskas (Mines Paris, CSI).

Postulating that changes in scale (re)condition the nature of things as well as the observations made of them, this seminar intends to raise the issues of measurement and commensurability, of growth and degrowth.

Bruno Latour, 1947-2022

It is with great sadness that the Center for the Sociology of Innovation has learned of the death of Bruno Latour, who was for 25 years one of the pillars of our research center. He developed his research and teaching activities at the École des Mines from 1982 to 2006, carrying out a large part of the work for which he is best known. With Michel Callon and John Law in England, and later Madeleine Akrich and many other researchers, he led a radical renewal of the sociology of science and technology, through what was first called the sociology of translation, and then Actor-Network Theory – a theory soon to become internationally renowned. From his early days onwards, Latour […]

Clément Marquet

Clément Marquet’s research focuses on the materiality of the digital technical system. Using methods and theories from the social studies of science and technology, he is interested in the political, social and environmental tensions caused by the installation of digital…