April 11,2025. Seminar ‘Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about’. For this second session entitled ‘Maintaining in common: co-ownership beyond the infraordinary’, we propose to investigate together the field of housing maintenance by focusing on co-ownership and its actors.
April 4, 2025. Shifting soil. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Anastasyia Halauniova (Sciences Po, CSO) and Laure Manach (CAK). This session will consider soils as the shifting support of human activities, and as currently alterned by global warming. From the thawing of permafrost to the fate of carbon stored in soils, how are the transformations of soils retraced and anticipated? How are they taken up in both territorial and atmospheric politics?
March 28, 2025. The architectural agency SCAU and Jérôme Denis organize a new seminar entitled “Maintaining. Architecture and maintenance, what we care about”. For this first session of the seminar, “Material fragility and maintenance under constraints: building to the test of reality”, the SCAU will have a look back at some of its projects.
March 20, 2025. The seminar “Digital Environmental Policies” welcomes Marie Garin, who will talk about he mathematics thesis she completed at the Borelli Center (UMR 9010) and defended in 2024, “De l’apprentissage fédéré vers une théorie critique de l’apprentissage hétéromatique” (From federated learning to a critical theory of heteromatic learning), and the bridges she built with the social sciences in the course of this work.
March 20, 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Christelle Gramaglia (INRAE, University of Montpellier) to discuss her book “Habiter la pollution industrielle. Expériences et métrologies citoyennes de la contamination” [Living with industrial pollution. Experiences and citizen metrology of contamination]. Introduction to the discussion by Solène Sarnowski and Isaac Bariller.
March 7, 2025. Economic knowledge and growth. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Vicky Kluzik (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Arnaud Orain(Centre de recherches historiques – CRH-UMR CNRS 8558, EHESS). Has economic science always naturalized the goal of growth as economic policy? In this session, our guests will focus on the history of economics to show how alternative economic thinkers and knowledge have been concerned at different times with the biophysical limits of our planet, against the idea of the possibility of infinite abstract growth. We will collectively discuss the extent to which this knowledge aligned with other conceptions of economic expertise and its relationship to democracy, as well as the reasons why it has been forgotten or excluded from the mainstream economic discipline.
February 7, 2025. Lands, mines, futures. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Tobias Olofsson (Lund University) and Gisa Weszkalnys (LSE). In this session we will explore the anticipation techniques used by a variety of actors (industry and government in particular) to create desirable futures for the development of new mines around the world (in Europe and Africa). This session is organised in partnership with the members of the ANTICIP du PEPR sous-sol bien commun project.
January 22, 2025. The CSI welcomes Canay Ozden-Schilling (National University of Singapore) for a seminar on her current work on ‘Ports and global logistics’.
January 14, 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Fanny Gribenski (NYU, Arts & Science) to discuss her book “Tuning the World. The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955”. Introduction to the discussion by Louison Magro and Hafid Ait Sidi Hammou.
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.
