Author: Florence Paterson

“The very thought of what crisis preparedness is is totally absent”

Interview of Didier Torny by François Bonnet, published in Mediapart on April 3, 2020

What do you see when you look at the French response to the Covid-19 pandemic?

What struck me first is that all the work accomplished, basically from 2004 to 2012, seemed to have completely disappeared! This work led under the authority of a service of the Prime Minister involved almost all the ministries, the local authorities, interprofessional branches, and involved large budgets […]

Catherine Bourgain (Cermes3)

THE SESSION IS POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE The EHESS seminar « Health and Big Data » will welcome Catherine Bourgain Director of Cermes3 Geneticist, Inserm Research Fellow Opening access to clinical data? Reflections on the Health data Hub, data…

Michel Naepels (CEMS-EHESS)

Guest seminar with Michel Naepels EHESS Research Director and CNRS Research Director at CEMS (Centre d’études des mouvements sociaux) Dans la détresse Une anthropologie de la vulnérabilité In distress. An anthropology of vulnerability Introduction à la discussion par Victoria Brun…

Open science, closed borders: epidemics as “a test of global solidarity”

Didier Torny and Frédéric Vagneron

Never has the genetic identification of a new virus been deciphered so quickly: on the 29th of December 2019, the first cases of an epidemic caused by a new virus are reported in China; 7 days later, a team from Fudan University in Shanghai publishes the complete sequence of the RNA virus of the coronavirus family. Since then, the sequences of its variants […]

Book launch

The meeting will take place both in live and by video-conference A round table is organised by the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, the Institute for Research and Innovation in Society (IFRIS) and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3-UMR 9217), to…

Labelling the Economy. Qualities and Values in Contemporary Markets

Labelling the Economy

Qualities and Values in Contemporary Markets

Brice Laurent & Alexandre Mallard (Eds.)

This collected volume analyses labelling as a political and economic operation. It gathers contributions that focus on various domains, including the agri-food sector, the construction sector, eco-labelling, retail, health public policies and the energy sector, considering the use of labels […]

The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory

Book edited by Anders Blok, Ignacio Farias andCelia Roberts, with contributions from CSI researchers, Fabian Muniesa, David Pontille, Liliana Doganova and Jérôme Denis.

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities.

Jérôme Hourdeaux (Médiapart)

The EHESS seminar « Health and Big Data » will welcome Jérôme Hourdeaux Journalist at Médiapart Investigation and Publications on Contemporary Health Data Management Projects Jérôme Hourdeaux, a journalist at Médiapart who wrote an article entitled « “Health Data Hub”:…

A new issue of PRAGMATA. Pragmatism, Politics and Social Sciences: New Explorations

The second issue of Pragmata, entitled « Pragmatisme, politique et sciences sociales : nouvelles explorations » [“Pragmatism, Politics and Social Sciences: New Explorations”], opens a series of three issues devoted to politics.

In addition to the sections “Articles”, “Translation”, “Interview” and “Reviews”, readers will find two new sections, with contributions by researchers from the CSI.