François-Mathieu Poupeauwill travel to Ben Guerir (Morocco) to teach a course on "sociology of organizations" as part of the specialized Master's program in Advanced Public Action at Maris (UM6P University) from October 29 to November 2, 2018.
Robin Foot will participate in the Franco-Latin American symposium on labor and health from October 22 to November 2, 2018, in Havana, Cuba.
Robin Foot visited Duppigheil on October 16 and 17, 2018, to analyze tests on a pre-production tram.
Félix Adisson, Ludovic Halbert, Antoine Guironnet, and Marie Bigorgne participated in the Third Biennial Conference on Urban and Regional Sociology in Marseille from October 17 to 19, 2018.
Bruno Barroca was invited to 24 H Pujadas, l'info en questions – Floods in the Aude region, Monday, October 15, 2018, Replay
As part of the Labex Futurs Urbains "City and Energy" network, Sylvy Jaglin and Marika Rupeka are co-organizers of this fourth study day in the "Electrical Hybridizations and Diffuse Urbanization" cycle.
Find out more about the Transversal Group: City and Energy: http://www.futurs-urbains.fr/groupes-transversaux/les-groupes-transversaux-du-labex/groupe-transversal-ville-et-energie/
Nicolas Maisetti
Le retour des villes dissidentes (The Return of
Dissident Cities) Editions PUCA, 2018, 84 p.
Donald Trump's arrival in the White House in January 2017 and his first initiatives on migration and environmental policy sparked opposition in a number of US cities and states. The resulting conflicts are part of the implementation of US foreign policy.
Locally, this opposition has led to the reaffirmation of a "sanctuary movement" that is attempting to initiate dissident strategies. These strategies are based on a range of controversies that relate to three categories of political analysis: partisan competition (politics
), the effectiveness of public policies (policies
), and the values and principles (polity
) at stake.
The analysis of these dissident strategies presented in this book is complemented by an examination of the London mayor's reaction to Brexit. His diplomatic counteroffensive, aimed at affirming London's "openness" to the world, is directed both at investors and tourists on the economic level and at the spirit of tolerance of his constituents.
Find out more: http://www.urbanisme-puca.gouv.fr/le-retour-des-villes-dissidentes-a1469.html
Emanuele Giordano is a teaching assistant at the Paris School of Urban Planning for the 2018/19 academic year.
After defending his thesis on the evolution of public lighting policies in November 2017, last year he was a research engineer at the Mediterranean Institute for Risk, Environment, and Sustainable Development.
His research interests include the development of lighting policies, the institutionalization of the urban night as an object of public action, and the roles of students and young employees in the socio-demographic transformation of central neighborhoods. In particular, he is interested in the relationships between the development of nightlife and urban transformation processes.
He is a member of the ANR Smartnight project team, which is investigating the impacts of student nightlife in the cities of Montpellier, Reims, Grenoble, and Lyon.
Since 1995, Guillaume de Syon has been teaching history at Albright College (Reading, Pennsylvania, United States). He is spending his 2018-2019 sabbatical year in Paris, where he is one of the visiting researchers at LATTS.
Trained in contemporary history (PhD Boston University 1994), he specializes in contemporary German history and the history of science and technology.
In this field, he has published Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship 1900-1939 (Johns Hopkins 2002) and Science and Technology in Modern European Life (Greenwood, 2008). He also contributed to the publication of the eighth volume of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1998), which deals with the physicist's correspondence during the First World War.
His research focuses on aviation and technical culture as expressed in popular media such as postcards, comic strips, and the press.
His current project concerns the role of advertising in the expansion of air transport, which he analyzes as part of the broadening of certain popular knowledge of aviation. In his history of railways, German historian of mentalities Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes the phenomenon of "travel pathology." Mr. de Syon draws on this typology to explain that for many years, the notion of flying provoked a reaction of opposition based not only on a fear of heights, echoing the legend of Icarus, but also on a lack of understanding of the value of air transport and the mobility it offered.
This analysis project therefore seeks to clarify the intersection between the visual culture of commercial aviation, its technical progress as reflected therein, so-called marketing tools, and the political value of the enterprise. Whether selling a new commercial route or representing a country, aviation advertising ultimately becomes part of printed "Alltagsgeschichte" (everyday history).
A complete CV and selected publications can be downloaded at http://albright.academia.edu/GuillaumedeSyon.
Victor Maghin graduated in sociology from the University of Lille after completing a Master's degree in "Sociology and Anthropology of Urban Issues" at the same university. Prior to that, he studied sociology at the University of Bordeaux. As part of his Master's degree, he wrote a thesis last year on the adaptation of administrations to digital developments. His field of research was in Bordeaux. He worked on this issue at LATTS under the supervision of Gilles Jeannot as part of a more comprehensive study conducted by the "smart city" group.
The internationalization of cities is undergoing renewed intensity and forms in the context of contemporary globalization and its economic, cultural, and ecological challenges. Since 2016, the Techniques, Territories and Societies Laboratory (LATTS) and the Urban Planning, Construction and Architecture Plan (PUCA) have been conducting a program focusing on various aspects of this issue by examining urban situations in both the North and the South.
This conference will take place on October 15 and 16, 2018. It offers elected officials, researchers, and practitioners a forward-looking and action-oriented reflection on the challenges, processes, and strategies of the internationalization of urban economies, societies, and institutions.
Free admission, registration required
Program and registration: http://www.urbanisme-puca.gouv.fr/colloque-l-internationalisation-des-villes-au-a1256.html