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).

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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”.

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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.

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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).

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December 18, 2023. 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 Thomas Beauvisage, sociologist of digital technology, Senior Researcher at Orange’s department Sociology and Economics of Networks and Services (SENSE). Original dissertation title: “Sociologie du cookie publicitaire” [Sociology of advertising cookie].

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December 12, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Kristin Asdal (TIK Centre for Technology, University of Oslo) and Tone Huse (UiT The Arctic University of Norway). This session will be an opportunity to discuss their just-published book “Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean”. The discussion will be introduced by Clément Foutrel, (CSI) and Baptiste Parent (CIRED).

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December 6, 2023. A year ago, the CEA, University of Caen/MRSH, Mines Paris-PSL, Dôme de Caen and IRTS Normandie-Caen launched aan exploratory SHS observatory project on energy crises adptation practices (PROMETHEE). This half-day conference aims to present the first findings of the project.

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December 1st, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Alexander Dobeson (Copenhagen Business School) and Lise Cornilleau (UVSQ). This session will explore dynamics of land appropriation, valuation and capitalization.

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November 21, 2023. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Kregg Hetherington, Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Ethnography, to discuss his book “The Government of Beans. Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops”. Introduction to the discussion by Guilhaum Panas.

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November 10, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Charlotte Glinel ,PhD candidate at SciencePo’s Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO), and Nelly Parès, researcher at the Museum National de l’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN). This session entitled “Forest valorization” will explore the intertwining of valuation processes, forest management technologies and public policies in the valuation and management of forests in France.

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