Author: Florence Paterson

L’emprise des marchés, a book by Michel Callon

The grip of markets. Understanding how they function in order to change them

While partisans and despisers of the market economy confront each other with a rare violence, a prior question arises: what is a market?
Michel Callon shows that the organization of market activities is not limited to the mere confrontation between offers and demands. How is a “thing” transformed, after immense […]

Anne-Sophie Jannot (APHP)

The seminar « Health and Big Data » will welcome   Anne-Sophie Jannot APHP The electronic medical record   Date: 21 December, 2017 The seminar « Health and Big Data » is held on the third Tuesday of the month, from 3 p.m. to…

Techno*Care / Healthcare Technologies

Symposium Techno*Care / Healthcare Technologies   Situated at the crossroads of sociology of health and sociology of sciences and technologies, the symposium “Techno*Care/Healthcare technologies” aims at questionning the contemporary arrangements linking technological innovation and the practices of care. The organizers,…

Guest seminar

The CSI Guest Seminar will welcome Guillaume Lachenal Laboratoire SPHERE, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot for a discussion of his book Le médecin qui voulut être roi Sur les traces d’une utopie coloniale 7 November 2017, 11:00 -13:00 – Mines ParisTech,…

Steven Jackson

Le séminaire Invités du CSI accueillera Steven Jackson Department of Information Science, Cornell University “Precarity, Repair and Hope” 10 Octobre 2017, 11:00 -13:00 – Mines ParisTech, Salle St-Jacques Photo credit: Cornell Information Science : Steve Jackson, Faculty Profile Discussion préparée par…

Public affairs and Innovation (PAI)

L’option « Affaires Publiques et Innovation » forme les élèves à l’analyse des dimensions politiques de l’innovation technique. Elle permet d’acquérir des compétences théoriques et pratiques dans des domaines tels que l’utilisation d’instruments marchands dans les politiques publiques

PhD program at the CSI

The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI) at Mines Paris – PSL offers a PhD program in social sciences, specialized in STS (« Science  and  Technology  Studies »). The doctorate is prepared at  Mines  Paris – PSL,  delivered by  PSL Research  University, certified by the doctoral school SDOSE 543 (« Sciences de la Décision, des Organisations, de la Société et de l’Échange »), and carried out under the supervision of a member of the CSI.

2017 Forccast Prize for the Controversy Mapping Awards Ceremony

The 2017 Forccast Controversy Mapping Awards Ceremony took place on June 30 at Sciences Po. This was a special occasion as the event capped off an all-day symposium organized for the hand-over of Bruno Latour to Dominique Cardon at the head of Sciences Po’s Médialab. A prize was awarded to the best work realized in 2017 within the framework of three different courses that, as Nicolas Benvegnu, executive director of the Forccast program, recalled, were successively created and taught by Bruno Latour. The earliest course […]