Author: Florence Paterson

Economic knowledge and growth. V. Kluzik (Goethe-Universität) and A. Orain (EHESS)

March 7, 2025. Economic knowledge and growth. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Vicky Kluzik (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Arnaud Orain(Centre de recherches historiques – CRH-UMR CNRS 8558, EHESS). Has economic science always naturalized the goal of growth as economic policy? In this session, our guests will focus on the history of economics to show how alternative economic thinkers and knowledge have been concerned at different times with the biophysical limits of our planet, against the idea of the possibility of infinite abstract growth. We will collectively discuss the extent to which this knowledge aligned with other conceptions of economic expertise and its relationship to democracy, as well as the reasons why it has been forgotten or excluded from the mainstream economic discipline.

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Antoine Hardy

Antoine Hardy’s postdoctoral research aims to understand how the consideration of the environmental impact of computer science research contributes to the redefinition of the field. He is thereby extending his Ph.D. research on the “greening” of scientific practices. This research project, funded by lnria, is co-supervised by Clément Marquet (Mines-PSL) and Sophie Quinton (Inria Grenoble).

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Anne-Gaëlle Guérin

Title of the thesis: Intermediaries in private housing energy renovation. Under the supervision of Thomas Reverdy (PACTE, Grenoble-INP) and Alexandre Mallard (CSI, Mines Paris – PSL). The thesis examines how an ecosystem of public and private actors emerges and organises…

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Vicky Kluzik

Vicky is a research associate and doctoral student at the University of Frankfurt, where she works in the ‘Biotechnologies, Nature and Society’ research group. Before coming to Frankfurt, she studied political science and economics at LMU Munich (B.A.) with two…

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Lands, mines, futures. Tobias Olofsson (Lund University) and Gisa Weszkalnys (LSE)

February 7, 2025. Lands, mines, futures. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Tobias Olofsson (Lund University) and Gisa Weszkalnys (LSE). In this session we will explore the anticipation techniques used by a variety of actors (industry and government in particular) to create desirable futures for the development of new mines around the world (in Europe and Africa). This session is organised in partnership with the members of the ANTICIP du PEPR sous-sol bien commun project.

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The Care of Things. Ethics and Politics of Maintenance

by Jérôme Denis and David Pontille

What does a coffee machine, a car, road signs, a smartphone, a cathedral, a work of art, a satellite, a bicycle, a washing machine, a bridge, a watch, a computer, the body of a prominent politician and a tractor have in common? Pretty much nothing – except for the fact that, no matter how small, large, important or insignificant something is, it rarely survives without being cared for. […]

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Fanny Gribenski (NYU, Arts & Science)

January 14, 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Fanny Gribenski (NYU, Arts & Science) to discuss her book “Tuning the World. The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955”. Introduction to the discussion by Louison Magro and Hafid Ait Sidi Hammou.

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Discounting. Béatrice Cherrier (CREST) and Liliana Doganova (CSI)

January 10, 2025. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Béatrice Cherrier (CREST) and Liliana Doganova (CSI). This seminar will focus on discounting, a widespread framework for taking the future into account in economics and in the economy. Retracing both its intellectual history and the effects of its deployment as a valuation device, we will analyzse it as a feature of economic models, as a political technology, and as a way to bring the future into existence – in particular the future of the climate and the environment.

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