The 2017 FORCCAST Mapping Controversies Award will be awarded to Arthur Fourny, Thomas Andrade, Nicolas Alaux, Gabriel Ozouf and Alexandre Levesque (Mines ParisTech) for their group’s project: Is Anthropocene a Geological Era?, Sciences Po, amphithéâtre Erignac, 13 rue de l’Université,…
Les doctorants/tes de l’Institut Interdisciplinaire de l’Innovation (i3) présentent leurs travaux. Lire le programme →
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
My long-standing interest in innovation has been driven by a question of ‘how agency and novelty of ideas, concerns and technologies co-produce and stabilize their existence in dynamic sociotechnical agencements’. My perspectives have been STS and Science, Technology and Innovation.…
The Centre for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI) at Mines Paris – PSL, a member of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Innovation (i3, UMR CNRS 9217), is launching a call for applications for a 3-years PhD scholarship.
The PhD will be carried out at the CSI under the supervision of researchers from the center, and will be part of the STS (“Sciences, Technologies, Societies”) doctoral program of PSL University’s Doctoral School SDOSE (ED 543, “Sciences of Decision, Organizations, Society and Exchange”). The doctoral contract is a full-time employment contract.
Application deadline: May 20, 2024.
Read more [In French].
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”.
