Futurepol seminars

Monday 16th June 2014 - 12:30-14:30

The discovering of social "complexity"

With Ariane Leendertz (MPIfG Cologne).

Monday 19th May 2014 - 14:00-17:00

Decision science, neoliberalism and rational order


With

• Sonja Amadae (Ohio State University and Harvard University)
• Nicolas Guilhot (CNRS, CIRHUS, New York University).

Discussion:

• Dominique Pestre (EHESS, Centre Koyré)

Monday, 2nd December 2013

Global Futures and Policy Making

With

• Diana Mangalagiu
• Angela Wilkinson

Monday, 23rd September 2013

Late Socialist Governance and Post-Socialist Future

With

• Michal Kopecek (Acadmy of Science, Prague): "The Art of Governance in Late Socialism: Authoritarian Rule, Expert Knowledge, Exit Strategies in Czechoslovakia and East Central Europe"
• Michal Pullmann (Charles University): "Shaping the Socialist Future: Labor, Social Harmony and Leadership in Late Communist Czechosolovakia"
• Discussion: Johanna Bockman (Georges Mason University) 

Monday, 18th March 2013

The Emergence of 'Relevant Knowledge' in Environmental Predictions and Global Change

With

• Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
• Paul Warde (University of East Anglia)
• discussion: Paul Edwards (University of Michigan, visiting professor at Sciences Po)

Tuesday, 12th February 2013

Nuclear Futures

With

• Soraya Boudia (Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée)
• Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan)
• Discussion: Luis Aparicio (ANDRA)

Monday, 12th February 2013

A Modern Way of Knowing: The Turn to the Future in Economics 

With

  • Mary Poovey (New York University)
  • Discussion: Martin Giraudeau (London School of Economics)

Tuesday, 27th November 2012

Futures by proxy: The making of robust knowledge in U.S. think tanks 

With

• Christina Garsten (Stockholm University/Department of Social Anthropology)
• discussion: Marion Fourcade (Sciences Po/UC Berkeley)

Tuesday, 23rd October 2012

Fictional expectations and future generations: Futures in economic sociology

With

• Jens Beckert (MPIfG/IAE Paris)
• Benjamin Lemoine (Sciences Po/CSO)
• discussion: Patrick Le Galès (Sciences Po/Cee, Cnrs) 

Tuesday, 25th September 2012

Presentation of the book L'Apocalypse joyeuse: une histoire du risque technologique (Seuil, 2012) 

With Jean-Baptiste FRESSOZ (Imperial College London/Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) 

Tuesday, 18th Septembre 2012

Prospective in France : origins, usages and transformations

With

• Jenny ANDERSSON (Sciences Po/CEE, CNRS)
• Nicolas RIO (IEP de Lyon/Triangle – Acadie)
• Chloë VIDAL(ENS Lyon/EVS&IRPhiL – Regional council Rhône-Alpes)
• discussion: Philippe BEZES (Paris 1/CERSA, CNRS) 

Wednesday, 13th June 2012

The sociology of the future in a globally connected and interdependent world: A new agenda for social sciences?

With Barbara Adam (Cardiff University/ Cardiff School of Social Sciences)

Thursday, 7th June 2012

A political history of techno-scientific governance: The shaping of transnational networks of cold war elites

With
• Leena RISKA-CAMPBELL (University of Helsinki)
• Egle RINDZEVICIUTE (Sciences Po/CEE)
• discussion: Marie-Laure DJELIC (ESSEC Business School) 

Tuesday, 3rd May 2012

Futurepol launching conference 

With
• Jenny ANDERSSON (Sciences Po,CEE, CNRS)
• Nicolas DELALANDE (Sciences Po, Centre d’histoire)
• Pierre LASCOUMES (Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS)
• Bruno LATOUR (Sciences Po, CSO)
• Marie-Claire LAVABRE (ISP Nanterre Paris 10/chercheuse associée au CEE)
• Egle RINDZEVICIUTE (Sciences Po/CEE)
• Stefan VARGOLICI (Sciences Po/CEE)
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