December 2, 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 Abdoulaye Diaw “The construction of the contemporary bulk market in France. From customer attraction strategies to environmental issues”. 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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November 25, 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Léo Magnin (LISIS) to discuss his book “La vie sociale des haies. Enquête sur l’écologisation des mœurs”, La Découverte, 2024. Introduction to the discussion (tbcà.

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November 18, 2025. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3, UMR CNRS 9217, Mines Paris-PSL) has the pleasure of inviting you to attend the HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in STS (Sciences, Technologies, Societies) defense of Bruno Turnheim (LISIS/INRAE, University of Manchester). Original dissertation title: Things falling apart: Handling destabilisation and its patterns.

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November 17, 2025. The seminar organized by CSI and LISIS welcomes Ulrike Felt (Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna) to discuss her book “Academic Times: Contesting the Chronopolitics of Research”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. Discussants are Lucas Brunet (LISIS) and Didier Torny (CSI).

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November 14, 2025. The workshop aims to provide a welcoming space for young researchers of all disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in the study of science and technology in France. The workshop offers a forum for discussion based on group readings, fundamental concept discussions, and STS writing practices.
Atelier #3: This session, organized in the form of an “Arpentage / Exploration”, will be devoted to “Politiques de la nature. Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie”, Bruno Latour, La Découverte, 1999.

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November 14, 2025. Seminar ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’: ‘Building and maintaining in the bioclimatic era – Feedback’ with Nolwenn Bordron, architect at the Department of Public Constructions and Architecture (DCPA) of the City of Paris.

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October 23, 2025. The workshop aims to provide a welcoming space for young researchers of all disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in the study of science and technology in France. The workshop offers a forum for discussion based on group readings, fundamental concept discussions, and STS writing practices.
Atelier #2: This session, organized in the form of an “Arpentage / Exploration”, will be devoted to Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse. Feminism and Technoscience, Donna J. Haraway
Routledge, 2018.

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October 21, 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Jeanne Ételain (École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier) to discuss her book “Zones. Terre, sexes et science-fiction”, Flammarion, coll.  Terra Incognita, 2025. Introduction to the discussion (tbc).

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October 10, 2025. Seminar ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’ : Attachments and heritage: figures from the ACMH. When it comes to heritage, the chief architect is like a caretaker at the bedside of a living, changing, aging structure. What determines value? Who will maintain it? Confronted with the obsolescence of materials and the accumulation of layers of time, conservation must contend with the living. Maintaining heritage invites us to come to terms with the intertwining of our fragilities.

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October 3, 2025. The workshop aims to provide a welcoming space for young researchers of all disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in the study of science and technology in France. The workshop offers a forum for discussion based on group readings, fundamental concept discussions, and STS writing practices. The first session of the seminar, organized in the form of an “Arpentage / Exploration”, will be devoted to a few selected chapters from the collective book “digitalSTS : A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies”, Janet Vertesi & David Ribes (Eds.).

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