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Claude Houdayer

The EHESS seminar « Health and Big Data » will welcome Claude Houdayer Institut Curie La base de données en oncogénétique de l’Institut Curie The Curie Institute’s oncogenetics database       Date: March 15, 2017 The seminar « Health and Big Data »…

Julien Merlin

Julien Merlin will defend his thesis L’épreuve de la mine : autochtonie et environnement en Nouvelle-Calédonie Indigenous people and environment in the New Caledonian mining sector   on Monday March 5, 2018 at 14.00 MINES ParisTech, 60 boulevard Saint-Michel 75006…

Anaïs Henneguelle

The seminar « Seminar Code Quantorg – Practices and Uses of Quantification within Organizations » will welcome Anaïs Henneguelle ISP – Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique (UMR7220), ENS Paris-Saclay Quantifying recidivists Penitentiary statistics as mirror of individual crime  …

Irène Bastard

i3 seminar « Methods for the analysis of online participation » will welcome Irène Bastard « Facebook, what’s there to do? » Reconciling technical tracks and recounted narratives   The session We are pleased to welcome Irène Bastard, project manager…

Genetic Databases and Witnesses

Genetic Databases and Witnesses Genealogy, Social issues, Circulation Public Conference   March 28, 2018, 17:30 – 19:30 Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris Hôtel de Lauzon, 17 quai d’Anjou 75004 Paris   organized by: Pascal Beauvais, Université Paris Nanterre, Florence Bellivier,…

The Chibanis of the SNCF: an exemplary mobilization

Vincent-Arnaud Chappe et Narguesse Keyhani

Wednesday, January 31, 12:30 pm: we queue in front of the Palais de Justice (Law Courts) on the Ile de la Cité, in Paris, hoping to hear the deliberation of the hearing held, eight months ago on appeal, in the lawsuit opposing 848 railway workers, most of them of Moroccan origin, to the SNCF (French National Railway Company). They are waiting for the confirmation of the verdict of the labor courts which, two years before, recognized, the discrimination exercised by the railway company on the grounds of their nationality and origin. Like dozens of railway workers, we have not managed to enter the Palais de […]

Pierre-André Juven

The Seminar Code Quantorg –  Practices and Uses of Quantification within Organizations will welcome Pierre-André Juven CERMES3, INSERM The thorny quantification of public service: calculating and defining the costs of stays in the public hospital       Date: February…

Didier Debaise

The research seminar « Maintaining / supporting: fragility as a mode of existence » will welcome Didier Debaise Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, member of the GECo (Groupe d’Études constructivistes). Didier has worked on Tarde, James, and especially…

L’emprise des marchés, a book by Michel Callon

The grip of markets. Understanding how they function in order to change them

While partisans and despisers of the market economy confront each other with a rare violence, a prior question arises: what is a market?
Michel Callon shows that the organization of market activities is not limited to the mere confrontation between offers and demands. How is a “thing” transformed, after immense […]

Rethinking political with STS lens

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 […]