Colloquium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the CSI
30 November – 1st December, 2017

The Center for the Sociology of Innovation is 50 years old!

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the CSI organized a two-day colloquium on November 30th and December 1st. Since its foundation in 1967, the CSI has played a major role in the development of the field of Science and Technology Studies. The CSI has contributed to the analysis of innovation processes, the place of science and technology in society, the dynamics of the economy. This celebration of the CSI’s 50th anniversary was an opportunity to […]

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The 2017 Forccast Controversy Mapping Awards Ceremony took place on June 30 at Sciences Po. This was a special occasion as the event capped off an all-day symposium organized for the hand-over of Bruno Latour to Dominique Cardon at the head of Sciences Po’s Médialab. A prize was awarded to the best work realized in 2017 within the framework of three different courses that, as Nicolas Benvegnu, executive director of the Forccast program, recalled, were successively created and taught by Bruno Latour. The earliest course […]

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The IRISSO-CSI Study Day Entering the Offices of Bureaucracy: Ethnographic Perspectives was held on June 12, 2017 at Paris Dauphine University. Organized jointly for IRISSO and CSI by Quentin Dufour and Marie Alauzen, it aimed to publicize and discuss the…

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From 7 to 20 February 2016, the twelve students minoring in Public Affairs and Innovation (PAI) went to San Francisco as part of a study trip to participate in a collective investigation. In the frame of the CitEx project (City Experiment with urban mobility practices), involving a partnership with the Institute for Sustainable mobility (Renault-Nissan Alliance), the investigation explored the linkages between infrastructures, urban innovation…

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Jérôme Denis arrived at the CSI in May. Part of his investigations concerns the – often-invisible – work that is being done at an earlier stage of the circulation and dissemination of data, in various areas (administrations, banks, city services…). Over the last few years, along with David Pontille, he has also developed a research interest around maintenance and repair activities.

He co-runs, with David Pontille and Didier Torny, Scriptopolis, a blog dedicated to the ordinary writing practices

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Interview with Vincent-Arnaud Chappe. The CSI research team welcomes Vincent-Arnaud Chappe, recruited as a researcher to the CNRS. His current research concerns the statistical equipment of the nondiscrimination and equality policies within firms. Vincent-Arnaud Chappe is the co-chairman of the…

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At the Prize ceremony organized at the newspaper’s premises on November 18th, 2015, Pierre-André Juven was awarded the 2015 Le Monde Prize for University Research by Edgar Morin, Chairman of the Humanities and Social sciences jury, for his PhD thesis…

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Liliana Doganova and Brice Laurent have created a minor in “Public Affairs and Innovation” (API) as part of the engineering training at Mines-ParisTech, which meets both the current challenges of innovation and an increasing demand for engineers with an educational…

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The final symposium of ADAM – Distributed Architecture and Multimedia Applications, which took place on October 2nd and 3rd, 2014, at the École des Mines, was designed to invite researchers in information and communication sciences, in economics, law, network engineering…

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The 3rd Interdisciplinary Market Studies Workshop was held on June 5- 6, 2014 in a beautiful former convent in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Southern France. The program designed by the organizers, Kimberly Chong (University of London), Susi Geiger (University College Dublin), Hans Kjellberg…

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