Mélanges offerts à Antoine Hennion
A Festschrift for Antoine Hennion edited by Loïc Riom, Sophie Tabouret, Anne-Sophie Haeringer, Jérôme Denis and Morgan Meyer.
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EASST- 4S 2024 Amsterdam: Making and Doing Transformations
The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) is hosted by the Athena – Research and Education Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam).
Several Open Panels are co-organized by CSI members. Learn more.
Journée scientifique autour du dossier “fragilités matérielles”
June 21, 2024. Further to the special issue “fragilités matérielles” [material fragilities], published in the Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances (vol.17, n°4, 2023), this one-day scientific event features a discussion of the articles in the presence of their authors. Agency of objects, transformations of materials, multispecies relationships, material cultures, legal proof, industrial stakes, environmental concerns – the cross-disciplinary discussions will seek to delve deeper into what the foregrounding of material fragility makes salient and opens up as lines of problematization.
Workshop “Forms of Economic Modeling and Public Action in the Era of Climate Change”
June 20, 2024. The Workshop is organized by Sara Aguiton (CNRS, CAK), Ian Gray (Columbia Climate School) and Alexandre Violle (CSI-i3, Mines Paris – PSL). It will bring together academics and stakeholders in modeling and public action to reflect on how modeling and scenario development shape, accompany or prescribe different forms of public action.
Doctoriales i3 2024
June 12, 2024. Doctoral training is at the heart of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation i3. The theses prepared within i3 renew the analysis and the accompaniment of technical and social innovation
The organization of an Annual Doctoral Day aims to publicize the doctoral research currently carried out at i3, to initiate a multidisciplinary
exchange around research topics common to the i3 laboratories, and to provide supporting feedback to the PhD candidates.
Claire Flécher (IETL, Centre Max Weber, Université Lumière Lyon-2)
May 28 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Claire Flécher (IETL, Centre Max Weber, Université Lumière Lyon-2) to discuss her book “A bord des géants des mers. Ethnographie embarquée de la logistique globalisée”, Editions La Découverte, 2023. Introduction to the discussion by Guillaume Louvet.
Kelly Bronson (University of Ottawa)
May 2, 2024. The CSI welcomes Kelly Bronson (University of Ottawa) as the guest speaker in a seminar organised as part of her stay at the center. Her presentation is titled “Immaculate conception of data: agribusiness, activists and their shared politics of the future”.
ESTS, “Maintenance & Its Knowledges” thematic collection, guest edited by Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin and David Pontille
Guest edited by Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin and David Pontille, the thematic collection “Maintenance & Its Knowledges”, published in April 2024 in ESTS – Engaging Science, Technology & Society, highlights the epistemic virtues of maintenance by examining a still underestimated and unexplored dimension: the forms of knowledge associated with maintenance activities. […]
Sortir du monde fossile. Les mutations d’une multinationale de l’énergie
A book by Jean Daniélou pubished by Presses des Mines.
Having built a world based on the exploitation and consumption of fossil fuels in the 20th century, multinational energy companies are now facing the need to abandon this path. Both exceptional and paradoxical, this moment in capitalism is characterized by a profound transformation of these companies.
TTI.5 Environmental Controversy Award – 2nd Edition
For the second consecutive year, the Transition Institute 1.5 has awarded the TTI.5 Award for best study of an environmental controversy. The prize is awarded to the best case study of a controversy dealing with an environmental issue selected among the papers written by students of the civil engineering program of Mines Paris–PSL. The articles are written as part of the course Description of Controversies coordinated by Madeleine Akrich, sociologist and Research Director at the CSI.
The winning group is the author of a study entitled “Living with wolves? Is a cohabitation possible?”