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Doctoral thesis defense of Roman Solé-Pomies

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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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Minor in PAI

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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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Quand la mine déborde. Enquêtes sur la fabrique des territoires extractifs

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Juliette Cerceau and Brice Laurent (Eds.)

At a time of energy and digital “transitions” and health and geopolitical crises, access to mineral raw materials is becoming a crucial issue forcing us to question mining activity.

The contributors to the book are Nassima Abdelghafour, Sylvia Becerra, Tessa Bonincontro, Juliette Cerceau, Liliana Doganova, Noémie Fayol, Yona Jébrak, Brice Laurent, Claude LeGouill, Pierre-Yves Le Meur, Florian Tena-Chollet and Roberta Rubino.

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TTI.5 Award for best study of an environmental controversy

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The Transition Institute 1.5 launched its first edition of the TTI.5 Award for best study of an environmental controversy on May 31st, 2023.

The prize is awarded to the best case study 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.

The winning group formed by Sylvain Caillaud, Arsène Ferrière, Grégoire Michel, Léopold Moeneclaey, Aymeric Plessier, Joseph Redaud, Victoire Rossignol and Maud Roux-Salembien was rewarded for its study entitled « Betteraves, oiseaux et néonicotinoïdes. To bee or not to beet?  »  [Beets, birds and neonicotinoids].

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Roland Canu (Université de Toulouse)

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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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Doctoral thesis defense of Clément Gasull

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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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Anne-Laure Ligozat and Aina Rasoldier

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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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Valorisation at CNRS through the prism of sociology of sciences 

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Victoria Brun

Valorisation has been an official mission of CNRS since 1982. Although research practices at the interface with the socio-economic world are nothing new, they have been facilitated since the 1990’s by a proliferation of new public policy instruments. To help them navigate this complex ecosystem, in 2017 the heads of the valorisation departments of the CNRS Institutes asked for reflective feedback on their activities, through a doctoral research. Victoria Brun began this investigation in October 2019, drawing on her expertise in sociology of science and mixed methods acquired during her postgraduate studies. This article presents several of the methodological issues of the inquiry she conducted.

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