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”.
April 30, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Charlotte Brives, CNRS Research Fellow, Centre Émile Durkheim, Bordeaux II University, to discuss her book “Face à l’antibiorésistance. Une écologie politique des microbes”. Introduction to the discussion by Allyson Pallisser.
March 29, 2024. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Klaudia Prodani (Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente, The Netherlands) and Mathilde Salin (CIRED, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France). In recent years, attempts to take biodiversity into account in economic and financial calculations have intensified. We will explore the issues, challenges and limits of this economic and financial translation of biodiversity, through a combination of practical approaches and critical analysis of models.
March 26, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Lucie Gerber, historian of science, CNRS research fellow (SAGE, University of Strasbourg) and associate researcher at the University of Lausanne (FADO, Institut des humanités en médecine) to discuss her book “Le laboratoire des esprits animaux. Modéliser le trouble mental à l’ère de la psychopharmacologie”.
22 mars 2024. Soutenances “Analyse de controverses environnementales” du MS IGE. L’ISIGE (Institut Supérieur d’Ingénierie et Gestion de l’Environnement) et le CSI (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation) proposent aux étudiants du MS EEDD parcours Ingénierie et Gestion de l’Environnement, un exercice pédagogique original centré autour de l’analyse de controverses « sur le terrain ». Les étudiants présentent les résultats de leurs travaux menés depuis octobre avec l’appui des chercheurs du CSI.
21-22 March, 2024. Although building renovation policy is widely recognized as an important factor in the fight against climate change, the modalities of its deployment divide the actors involved, give rise to new entities, and provoke unexpected effects and controversy, both in the design of the instruments and in their implementation.
Technical and commercial innovation continue to play an important role in this field, though other challenges have become more pressing, notably: the overall effectiveness of energy renovation initiatives (implementation of “complete renovations” as opposed to “single-action work”), the need to enhance the skills and coordination of the multitude of small craft businesses involved in these projects, and the ability to support households in defining and managing complex services. The renovation sector is not a single market, it rather provides, as a result of the way in which renovation policies are deployed, a ground for multiple market arrangements.
The objective of these study days is to address these issues through the lens of market recomposition. The aim is to encourage encounters and exchanges between social science research currently being carried out on the topic of renovation from a variety of approaches: through the market, organizations, work, public policies, space, consumption, etc.
March 1, 2024. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Magdalena Kuchler, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Bård Lahn, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), University of Oslo, and Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway. This session explores the entanglements of forecasting, planning, and economic calculation around underground resources, whether exploited or yet-to-be exploited. This session is organized in collaboration with the Programme Ciblé “Anticip” of the PEPR Sous-sol Bien Commun (Underground Common Good).
January 23, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Michèle Dupré, labour sociologist, researcher at the Max Weber – UMR 283, and Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Research Director at the French national institute for industrial environment and risks | INERIS · Accidental Risk Division Department, to discuss their book
“Des usines, des matières et des hommes. De la sécurité industrielle dans la chimie”.
January 19, 2024. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Kamilla Karhunmaa (University of Helsinki and SPIRAL, University of Liège) et Céline Granjou (LESSEM-INRAE, Grenoble-Alpes University). This session explores the ways in which carbon offsetting mobilizes arguments and expertise from soil science, economics and other fields to produce new entities and recast the way existing objects such as soils tend to be understood.
January 19, 2024. The extraction, importation, and transformation of raw materials play a crucial role in the low-carbon transition. The responsible management of raw materials becomes a crucial issue to ensure an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable transition. Three specialists discuss these topics: Damien Goetz (Centre Géosciences Mines Paris – PSL), Brice Laurent (CSI Mines Paris – PSL, ANSES) and Farah Benramdane (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne).
