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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November 29, 2024. Environmental zoning. For this session of the seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions”, we will welcome Estienne Rodary (GRED, IRD) and Isabelle Arpin (LESSEM, INRAE). We will explore biodiversity conservation in protected areas (what we call “environmental zoning”). What kind of territorial development does this generate and what are the mechanisms of knowledge production? What value can be attached to the environment?

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November 26, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Thomas Angeletti CNRS Research Fellow at IRISSO, Paris Dauphine University(PSL) to discuss his book “L’invention de l’économie française”. Introduction to the discussion by Laurine Lièvremont and Lou Stührenberg.

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November 21, 2024. The seminar ‘Digital environmental policies’ will welcome Adrien Luxey-Bitry (Spirals, Univ. Lille, INRIA) to discuss his work about ‘Organisation et maintenance collégiale d’une infrastructure communautaire de services numériques Collective organisation and maintenance of a community infrastructure of digital services’.

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November 15, 2024. Clément Marquet and Florence Maraninchi are organising a study day on 15 November in Grenoble entitled ‘What to do with planetary limits?’ as part of the CNRS ALDIWO project, with the support of the  CMA VerIT project.
The aim of this event is to bring together papers from different disciplines to reflect on the challenges of operationalising planetary limits, with a particular focus on digital issues.

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November 4, 2024. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL) is pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Victoria Brun “Redoing research. Valorisation of public research at the CNRS”. 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”.

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