As a mode of action stemming from scientific practice, experimentation is spreading today in a variety of situations: industrial innovation, the universe of regulation, urban policies, crisis management, etc. In all these areas, it contributes to the renewal of the…
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Seminar Code Quantorg – Practices and Uses of Quantification within Organizations Archives (2017-2018)
Vincent-Arnaud Chappe (CSI-i3, CNRS, Mines ParisTech) Marion Gilles (ANACT, Centre Max Weber) Jean-Marie Pillon (IRISSO, Université Paris Dauphine) The aim if the seminar is to open a forum for reflection on the multiplicity of quantified objects currently proliferating in private,…
Seminar Attachments – Pragmatism and Social Sciences archives (2008-2017)
Le séminaire « Attachements » s’est tenu au CSI sous la direction d’Antoine Hennion[1], prenant en 2008 la suite du séminaire « Aimer la musique » (1997-2008). Conduit avec J.-M. Fauquet, G. Teil, puis J.-L. Tornatore, en collaboration avec l’ÉNS,…
Description of controversies
The “Description of controversies” course is aimed at third year students in the Civil Engineering programme at the École des Mines. Its aim is to introduce students to the uncertain world of scientific and technical research. The objective is to learn how to map topics that are the subject of in-depth technical expertise and at the same time have become cases, often entangled ones, involving legal, moral, economic and social issues.
Sociopolitical and Environmental Issues
This course is aimed at first-year students in the Civil Engineering program at École des Mines. Designed as an introduction to the social sciences, the course aims to equip students with a basic knowledge of analytical and methodological approaches to understanding the major issues facing society today.
The Chibanis of the SNCF: an exemplary mobilization

Vincent-Arnaud Chappe et Narguesse Keyhani
Wednesday, January 31, 12:30 pm: we queue in front of the Palais de Justice (Law Courts) on the Ile de la Cité, in Paris, hoping to hear the deliberation of the hearing held, eight months ago on appeal, in the lawsuit opposing 848 railway workers, most of them of Moroccan origin, to the SNCF (French National Railway Company). They are waiting for the confirmation of the verdict of the labor courts which, two years before, recognized, the discrimination exercised by the railway company on the grounds of their nationality and origin. Like dozens of railway workers, we have not managed to enter the Palais de […]
Rethinking political with STS lens

Colloquium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the CSI
30 November – 1st December, 2017
The Center for the Sociology of Innovation is 50 years old!
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the CSI organized a two-day colloquium on November 30th and December 1st. Since its foundation in 1967, the CSI has played a major role in the development of the field of Science and Technology Studies. The CSI has contributed to the analysis of innovation processes, the place of science and technology in society, the dynamics of the economy. This celebration of the CSI’s 50th anniversary was an opportunity to […]
Maintaining / supporting
50 years sessions
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