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”.

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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.

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Friday, August 25, 2023
Dialogue between sociologist Jérôme Denis and philosopher Jeanne Guien.
12th Festival La Manufacture d’Idées

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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)].

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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”.

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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?”

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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.

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Monday June 5, 2023. ” Doing ‘with’ to repair the world? The challenges of repair cultures”, study day of the “Living in Transition” workshop coordinated by Laurence Allard, Clément Marquet and Jérôme Boissonade. Making things last or repairing them are not “hypergoods” in themselves. After a period marked by “sustainable development”, how can we question both the possibilities and the limits of maintenance and repair brought about by ecological transition policies?

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Wednesday, May 31st, 2023. The study day “Teaching the environmental conséquences of digital technology” is organized in the framework of the Digital Environmental Policies working group of the GDR Internet, AI and Society, by Sylvain Bouveret (lecturer-researcher in computer science at Ensimag in Grenoble), Annabelle Collin (lecturer-researcher in mathematics at Enseirb-Matmeca in Bordeaux), Clément Marquet (lecturer-researcher in sociology at Mines Paris-PSL), Alexandre Monnin (lecturer-researcher at ESC Clermont) and Sophie Quinton (researcher in computer science at INRIA Grenoble).
How can we teach about the environmental consequences of digital technology? Rather than a technical reflection on the eco-design of digital services, this study day proposes to discuss the challenges encountered when addressing with students the more global issues raised by the place of digital technologies in the climate and environmental crises.

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May 31st, 2023. The Transition Institute 1.5 launches its first edition of the TTI.5 Environmental Controversy Award. The prize will be awarded to the best case study of a controversy dealing with an environmental topic, selected among the papers written by students of the civil engineering program of Mines Paris–PSL. These controversy studies are carried out as part of the course Description of Controversies supervised by Madeleine Akrich, sociologist and Research Director at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI).

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