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\u2019s 50th anniversary is an opportunity to present and debate the research problems the CSI is currently dealing with. Together with external personalities, the researchers and the PhD students of the CSI invite you to explore 6 contemporary problems through the lens of STS.<\/p>\n
1. Acting at the borders<\/strong><\/p>\n With the participation of Fabrice Weissman and Michael Neuman (M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res), S\u00e9bastien Thi\u00e9ry (Association PEROU), Marielle Mac\u00e9 (CRAL), Nassima Abdelghafour, F\u00e9lix Boil\u00e8ve, Evan Fisher, Antoine Hennion and Vololona Rabeharisoa (CSI)<\/em><\/p>\n How to sharpen our eyes on the so-called global problems: poverty, migration, conflicts, development, humanitarian emergency? Many analysts point to the recurring failure of policies to deal with these problems. But little attention has been given to politics, understood as action taken in situation with the actors concerned. In this session, representatives of M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res and of PEROU will thus demonstrate ways to rethink political based on actions taken in the areas in which they operate.<\/p>\n 2. Turning the city into a laboratory ?<\/strong><\/p>\n With the participation of Olivier Coutard (LATTS), Patrick Le Gal\u00e8s (CEE), Margo Boenig (Harvard University), Claudio Coletta (Maynooth University), J\u00e9r\u00f4me Denis, Brice Laurent, David Pontille and F\u00e9lix Talvard (CSI)<\/em><\/p>\n Whereas environmental issues become more pressing, what role are cities necessarily going to play in the energy transition? While pioneer researchers in Chicago have understood the city as our natural environment, several actors are busy today to make the city a permanent laboratory likely to reveal relevant or even optimal alternatives for the future. In order to extend the investigation, two main lines of inquiry will be favoured in this session: the city as an infrastructure and as an experimental site.<\/p>\n ecording and photos of the session<\/a><\/p>\n 3. Making things and people count: mobilizing with and through data<\/strong><\/p>\n With the participation of Yannick Barthe (LIER), Christian Baudelot (Renaloo), Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier (CSO), St\u00e9phane Gigandet (Open Food Facts), Florence Chappert (ANACT), Emmanuelle Marchal (CSO), Madeleine Akrich and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Denis (CSI)<\/em><\/p>\n The multiplication of alternative of production- and of data use initiatives, by actors who, until now, did not have this possibility, invites to relaunch the investigation on a with the STS consubstantial object. How do we deal with these data \u201cfrom below\u201d? Under what conditions do we make them exist? What policies do they equip? This session will take the form of three conversations between data producers who will present the main lines of their action, and researchers who will question what the emergence of these unpublished data can change to the areas of research in which they occur.<\/p>\n ecording and photos of the session<\/a><\/p>\n 4. Clearing a way for law<\/strong><\/p>\n With the participation of J\u00e9r\u00f4me P\u00e9lisse (CSO), Jean-Marc Weller (LISIS), Vincent-Arnaud Chappe, Florence Paterson and Vololona Rabeharisoa (CSI)<\/em><\/p>\n How does the law make its way into our societies and participate in the constitution of our collectives? With a sharp glance at STS approaches, this session aims to question the materiality of law, its organization and its effects on reality. It is a question of bringing, from various objects and terrains, a renewed look to the service of an empirical approach of the \u201cright in action\u201d, apprehended in its plurality and indeterminacy.<\/p>\n ecording and photos of the session<\/a><\/p>\n 5. What to do with capitalism?!\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n With the participation of Pascale Trompette ( Pacte), Fran\u00e7ois Vatin (IDHES), Michel Callon, Nassima Abdelghafour, Marie Alauzen, F\u00e9lix Boil\u00e8ve, Liliana Doganova, Fabian Muniesa and Alexandre Violle (CSI)<\/em><\/p>\n How to envisage the investigation when it projects us towards the proper objects of a capitalistic configuration of the world? From which angle to approach the economic categories with which this world expresses itself? Based on questions raised in ongoing CSI doctoral research, Fran\u00e7ois Vatin, Pascale Trompette and Michel Callon will try to address these issues in relation to key issues of our time (poverty, inequalities, and also transformations of power, of sovereignty, of global reports, reorientations of the sense of common good and of public service, increasing influence of the financial point of view, extensions of the problem of the risk).<\/p>\n