Category: Agenda

The politics of renewable resources. A. Fontaine and C. Rivière

Octobre 27, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” will welcome
Antoine Fontaine, CNRS Researcher at UMR Environnement, Ville, Société, and Camille Rivière, researcher at Crigen and associate researcher at CEMS. This session entitled “The politics of renewable resources” will explore the entanglement of public policies and financing in the constitution and development of new resources for the energy transition at the territorial scale.

“Une journée avec Bruno Latour”

On October 23, 2023, the Center for the Sociology of Innovation held a day-long tribute to Bruno Latour.

Bruno Latour has left a considerable intellectual legacy, many milestones of which he set during his twenty-five years at the CSI, where he was, in turn and in his own way, an anthropologist of science and technology, a political theologian and an investigative philosopher. During this event, members of the CSI, Bruno Latour’s companions along the way and researchers whom he has inspired or baffled will continue their conversation with his work.

Doctoral thesis defense of Roman Solé-Pomies

September 19, 2023. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL) is pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Roman Solé-Pomies “Faire durer la chaussée. Le souci des voiries communales en France métropolitaine après la décentralisation / Making Pavements Last: The Care of Municipal Road Infrastructures in Decentralized Mainland France”. 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”.

Minor in PAI

On 5, 22 et 26 September 2023, students enrolled in the minor in Public Affairs and Innovation (PAI) will defend their end-of-studies projects. Under the supervision of CSI researchers, students build on the operational or research work they have carried out during their final internships to analyze a public affairs issue relating to the political dimensions of technical activities.

Roland Canu (Université de Toulouse)

Thursday June 29, 2023. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3, UMR CNRS 9217, Mines Paris-PSL) and the Research Center o Work, Organization, Power (CERTOP, UMR CNRS 5044) are pleased to invite you to the defense of the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches of Mines Paris-PSL, specializing in Science, Technology and Society of Roland Canu, Associate Professor at the University of Toulouse, “La publicité sans le savoir. Une histoire des résidus techniques publicitaires “1850-1950)”, garant : Alexandre Mallard [Advertising without knowing it. A history of technical advertising residues (1850-1950)].

Doctoral thesis defense of Clément Gasull

Monday June 19, 2023. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3 CNRS UMR 9217, Mines Paris – PSL) and the SENSE department of Orange Labs are pleased to invite you to the thesis defense of Clément Gasull “Ni lois, ni centres : gouverner par les transactions avec les blockchains” / Neither Law Nor Centers: Governing by Transactions with Blockchains. 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”.

Anne-Laure Ligozat and Aina Rasoldier

This session, initially scheduled for June 15, 2023, has been postponed to autumn 2023.
Anne-Laure Ligozat, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN), ENSIEE, and Aina Rasoldier, INRIA, are the guests of the next session of the Seminar on Digital Environmental Policies organized by the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI Mines Paris – PSL) and the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). The session is entited “What is known of the potential contribution of digital technologies to support the ecological transition?”

Thom Van Dooren

Tuesday, June 13, 2023. The CSI Guests Seminar will welcome Thom Van Dooren University of Sydney, University of Oslo to discuss his book The Wake of Crows Living and Dying in Shared Worlds Introduction to the discussion: Roman Solé-Pomies.