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.
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.
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.
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.
Study day: “Low-tech, maintenance, limits: how to rethink digital technology and its environmental impact” Wednesday Septembre 20, 2023 at Mines Paris – PSL, 60 boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris room V 106 B Organisation Free registration, subject to availability. Please register here.…
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”.
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.
Friday, August 25, 2023
Dialogue between sociologist Jérôme Denis and philosopher Jeanne Guien.
12th Festival La Manufacture d’Idées
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)].
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”.
