Author: Florence Paterson

Michel Callon (1945-2025)

The Center for the Sociology of Innovation is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Michel Callon on July 28, 2025.

A civil engineer from the École des Mines de Paris who earned a postgraduate degree in economics, he joined the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation in the late 1960s. Sharing a close intellectual friendship with Jean-Pierre Vignolle and Antoine Hennion, he conducted research on the development of electric vehicles, pioneering an approach to innovation by studying the controversies they raise. Callon laid the foundation for a sociological approach to innovation through translation processes and implemented original scientometric methodologies.

In 1982, Callon became director of the CSI. Through his recruitment choices, scientific direction, and ability to obtain financial resources, he transformed the centre into a leading institution in the field of the sociology of science and technology. With the help of Bruno Latour, whom Michel Callon brought to the CSI, he conducted research projects on the construction of science and technology. These projects made a significant contribution to the development of Science and Technology Studies (STS).

Pierre Robicquet joined the CSI as a postdoctoral fellow in May 2025. He is involved in the CoProExpert project (Emergent Diseases, Patient Activism, and the Co-Production of Expertise) coordinated by Gil Eyal (Columbia University) and Madeleine Akrich (Mines Paris PSL).…

par le Collectif Attachements

Jérémy Damian, Amandine Guilbert, Rémi Eliçabe, Anne-Sophie Haeringer,
Antoine Hennion, Sophie Houdart et Brice Laurent

Qu’il s’agisse de l’organisation quotidienne d’un petit-déjeuner pour les migrants au nord de Paris, de savoir où marcher à Fukushima après le désastre, de décrire avec justesse l’expérience incertaine du toucher des ostéopathes, des décisions vitales et tâtonnantes à prendre en soins palliatifs, de la façon dont l’Europe définit des objets à la fois techniques et politiques, ou encore de la réalité plurielle d’un territoire comme les Murs à Pêches, à Montreuil, les textes sur ces problèmes très divers réunis dans ce livre […]

Presses des mines

June 26, 2025. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL)
is pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Clément Foutrel “The zone and its networks. From Monaco to Monastir, an investigation of marine protected areas in Tunisia.” 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”.

by Antoine Hardy and Laurène Le Cozanet (Eds)

Putting the world into numbers is profoundly political. This multidisciplinary collective book sheds light on a crucial yet little-explored aspect of these operations: their audiences.

Presses des mines

June 18-19, 2025. Focusing on the encounter between the knowledge that populates knowledge activities in the environmental arena and the work of the sensitive that runs through them, the “Making (ourselves) sensitive with the ecological knowledge of modernity” study days will explore the intersection of ecological knowledge and sensitivity. The study days aim to bring together perceptions, affects, and aesthetics in an analysis of ways of becoming sensitive by manipulating instruments traditionally associated with scientific objectivity.

June 13, 2025. This event addresses researchers and practitioners exploring promises, practices and tensions between digital technologies and ecology. It will provide an opportunity to present work from two recently published special issues – Écologiser par le numérique? (Réseaux no. 144) and Matérialités environnementales du numérique (Reset no. 15). The morning session will open with a lecture given by Laurence Allard (MCF, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle), and the afternoon session will close with a roundtable discussing multidisciplinary perspectives.

June 12, 2025. Seminar ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’. Insurance and Maintenance: from vanishing line to breaking point. The focus of this third session is on the expert and the insurer. The session will provide an opportunity for the crossing of narratives and for a shifting of the gaze of practitioners as well as researchers. Guest speakers: Ludovic Patouret, expert engineer / cabinet GECAMEX (technical and financial construction litigation) and Michel Klein, Deputy General Manager, Mutuelle des Architectes Français assurances (MAF).

June 3, 2025. For its 3rd edition, and as part of the course entitled “Description de controverses” [Description of controversies] coordinated by Madeleine Akrich (CSI-i3, Mines Paris-PSL), the TTI.5 Environmental Controversy Award rewarded the best study of an environmental controversy carried out by students in the Civil Engineering Program at Mines Paris-PSL.

27 May 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Nelo Magalhaes (CRH-EHESS) to discuss his book “Accumuler du béton, tracer des routes Une histoire environnementale des grandes infrastructures”. Introduction to the discussion by Guilhaum Panas and Guillaume Louvet.

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Author: Florence Paterson

Michel Callon (1945-2025)

Pierre Robicquet

Attachements et fragilités

Clément Foutrel

Les publics de la mise en nombre

Making (ourselves) sensitive with the ecological knowledge of modernity

Conference: ‘Digital Technology and Ecology through the Prism of Social Science’

Insurance and Maintenance: from vanishing line to breaking point

TTI.5 Award for the Best Case Study of an Environmental Controversy from the course ‘Description of controversies’

Nelo Magalhaes (CRH-EHESS)