January 19, 2024. The extraction, importation, and transformation of raw materials play a crucial role in the low-carbon transition. The responsible management of raw materials becomes a crucial issue to ensure an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable transition. Three specialists discuss these topics: Damien Goetz (Centre Géosciences Mines Paris – PSL), Brice Laurent (CSI Mines Paris – PSL, ANSES) and Farah Benramdane (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne).
December 18, 2023. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3, UMR CNRS 9217, Mines Paris-PSL) has the pleasure of inviting you to attend the HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in STS (Sciences, Technologies, Societies) defense of Thomas Beauvisage, sociologist of digital technology, Senior Researcher at Orange’s department Sociology and Economics of Networks and Services (SENSE). Original dissertation title: “Sociologie du cookie publicitaire” [Sociology of advertising cookie].
December 12, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Kristin Asdal (TIK Centre for Technology, University of Oslo) and Tone Huse (UiT The Arctic University of Norway). This session will be an opportunity to discuss their just-published book “Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean”. The discussion will be introduced by Clément Foutrel, (CSI) and Baptiste Parent (CIRED).
December 6, 2023. A year ago, the CEA, University of Caen/MRSH, Mines Paris-PSL, Dôme de Caen and IRTS Normandie-Caen launched aan exploratory SHS observatory project on energy crises adptation practices (PROMETHEE). This half-day conference aims to present the first findings of the project.
December 1st, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Alexander Dobeson (Copenhagen Business School) and Lise Cornilleau (UVSQ). This session will explore dynamics of land appropriation, valuation and capitalization.
November 21, 2023. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Kregg Hetherington, Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Ethnography, to discuss his book “The Government of Beans. Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops”. Introduction to the discussion by Guilhaum Panas.
November 10, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Charlotte Glinel ,PhD candidate at SciencePo’s Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO), and Nelly Parès, researcher at the Museum National de l’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN). This session entitled “Forest valorization” will explore the intertwining of valuation processes, forest management technologies and public policies in the valuation and management of forests in France.
Octobre 27, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” will welcome
Antoine Fontaine, CNRS Researcher at UMR Environnement, Ville, Société, and Camille Rivière, researcher at Crigen and associate researcher at CEMS. This session entitled “The politics of renewable resources” will explore the entanglement of public policies and financing in the constitution and development of new resources for the energy transition at the territorial scale.
On October 23, 2023, the Center for the Sociology of Innovation held a day-long tribute to Bruno Latour.
Bruno Latour has left a considerable intellectual legacy, many milestones of which he set during his twenty-five years at the CSI, where he was, in turn and in his own way, an anthropologist of science and technology, a political theologian and an investigative philosopher. During this event, members of the CSI, Bruno Latour’s companions along the way and researchers whom he has inspired or baffled will continue their conversation with his work.
Study day: “Low-tech, maintenance, limits: how to rethink digital technology and its environmental impact” Wednesday Septembre 20, 2023 at Mines Paris – PSL, 60 boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris room V 106 B Organisation Free registration, subject to availability. Please register here.…
