June 21, 2024. Further to the special issue “fragilités matérielles” [material fragilities], published in the Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances (vol.17, n°4, 2023), this one-day scientific event features a discussion of the articles in the presence of their authors. Agency of objects, transformations of materials, multispecies relationships, material cultures, legal proof, industrial stakes, environmental concerns – the cross-disciplinary discussions will seek to delve deeper into what the foregrounding of material fragility makes salient and opens up as lines of problematization.

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June 12, 2024. Doctoral training is at the heart of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation i3. The theses prepared within i3 renew the analysis and the accompaniment of technical and social innovation

The organization of an Annual Doctoral Day aims to publicize the doctoral research currently carried out at i3, to initiate a multidisciplinary
exchange around research topics common to the i3 laboratories, and to provide supporting feedback to the PhD candidates.

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May 28, 2024. TTI.5 Environmental Controversy Award – 2nd Edition. The Transition Institute 1.5 holds its second edition of the TTI.5 Award for best study of an environmental controversy. The prize is awarded to the best case study of a controversy dealing with an environmental issue, 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 coordinated by Madeleine Akrich, sociologist and Research Director at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI).

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May 28 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Claire Flécher (IETL, Centre Max Weber, Université Lumière Lyon-2) to discuss her book “A bord des géants des mers. Ethnographie embarquée de la logistique globalisée”, Editions La Découverte, 2023. Introduction to the discussion by Guillaume Louvet.

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May 17, 2024. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Ian Gray (Columbia University’s Climate School) and Leigh Johnson (College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon). How do the impacts of climat change transform the economy? Co-organised with Sara Angeli Aguiton (Centre Alexandre Koyré – CAK), this session will investigate the forms of knowledge, labour, and human-nature relations that emerge in the face of the imperative of adaptation to climate change.

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May 2, 2024. The CSI welcomes Kelly Bronson (University of Ottawa) as the guest speaker in a seminar organised as part of her stay at the center. Her presentation is titled “Immaculate conception of data: agribusiness, activists and their shared politics of the future”.

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April 30, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Charlotte Brives, CNRS Research Fellow, Centre Émile Durkheim, Bordeaux II University, to discuss her book “Face à l’antibiorésistance. Une écologie politique des microbes”. Introduction to the discussion by Allyson Pallisser.

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March 29, 2024. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Klaudia Prodani (Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente, The Netherlands) and Mathilde Salin (CIRED, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France). In recent years, attempts to take biodiversity into account in economic and financial calculations have intensified. We will explore the issues, challenges and limits of this economic and financial translation of biodiversity, through a combination of practical approaches and critical analysis of models.

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March 26,  2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Lucie Gerber, historian of science, CNRS research fellow (SAGE, University of Strasbourg) and associate researcher at the University of Lausanne (FADO, Institut des humanités en médecine) to discuss her book “Le laboratoire des esprits animaux. Modéliser le trouble mental à l’ère de la psychopharmacologie”.

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