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We are pleased to share the program for the symposium "City, Life, and Techniques: Urban Worlds Under Construction," which will be held at the Collège de France and the Institut des Civilisations on Thursday, November 13, and Friday, November 14. The program is available below and can also be found here.

The symposium will be preceded on Wednesday, November 12, by a lecture by Patrick Boucheron (Politique de la ville. Architecture du pouvoir, pouvoirs de l'architecture) at the Ecole des Mines starting at 5 p.m. Admission is free, but reservations are required. https://my.weezevent.com/colloque-international-villes-vie-et-technique-idees-pour-construire-les-mon

The symposium is the result of a collaboration at the intersection of geography, architectural history, and the anthropology of technology. Its aim is to contribute to contemporary multidisciplinary research on urban materiality, approaching it from the perspective of what we propose to call "expanded biopolitics."

This event will provide an opportunity to hear from colleagues who, from large-scale projects to ordinary cities, from zoos to controlled environments, from space colonization projects to cities of the Ancien Régime, via biodiversity management systems and maintenance practices, question the city as an equipped living environment. Through a series of works that will be discussed during these days, we will see how the city can be understood as a vast set of socio-technical arrangements that organize, govern, and support human and non-human lives.

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Please find attached an advertisement for a 12-month postdoctoral contract as part of the FinPlanet international research project. The role involves contributing to a quantitative research project aimed at mapping investment flows in tangible assets in France by financial market players, as well as their socio-ecological effects.

Reference: FinPlanet_3.2_RA
Location: Techniques, Territories, and Societies Laboratory (LATTS), Gustave Eiffel University, France
Contract: Full-time, 12-month fixed-term contract, renewable Start
date: 2026 Application
deadline: November 30, 2025

Contacts: Félix Adisson and Ludovic Halbert

Investment strategy, environmental issues, and spatial transformations

Reference: FinPlanet_3.4_Internship
Location: Techniques, Territories and Societies Laboratory (LATTS), Gustave Eiffel University, France
Contract: Full-time internship, 4 to 6 months, paid according to the current pay scale. Start
date: First semester of 2026 Application
deadline: December 15, 2025

Contacts: Félix Adisson and Ludovic Halbert

Elsa Vivant, Christine Fassert, and Rina Kojima are organizing the MORTEL project study day, which will take place on Thursday, November 6, 2025, in room B235 at LATTS and via videoconference.

Click here to register

Find the Zoom link for the study day: https://univ-eiffel.zoom.us/j/89483300260

Meeting ID: 894 8330 0260
Password: Mortel2025 

We look forward to seeing many of you there.

See the program below:

Find the job offer on the Choisir le service public website or on LinkedIn.

Your responsibilities in a nutshell

The administrative and financial management assistant works within the administrative team (7 people) and reports to the Secretary General.

He/she provides administrative and logistical support to the fifteen or so scientific staff of LATTS hosted by the UGE. He/she carries out administrative and financial management tasks in accordance with the techniques, rules, and procedures applicable to the functional areas of the institution. He/she is based at the laboratory's two sites.

Main tasks:
• Examine files to verify their legal, administrative, and financial compliance

• Carry out commitment, settlement, and payment operations

• Collect and check the supporting documents required for management operations

• File and archive documents and supporting documents for financial and accounting operations

accounting

• Update dashboards (budget management, contract monitoring, etc.)

• Prepare invoicing requests

• Manage and inventory IT equipment

• Process files and submit recruitment requests (fixed-term contracts, interns)

• Manage the material and logistical organization of events (conferences, meetings, seminars, symposiums, etc.)

• Provide logistical support (premises, equipment, supplies, etc.) for the student union

• Welcoming internal and external contacts

• Select and disseminate information internally and externally

• Respond to internal and external requests for information

Position available in Champs sur Marne (77)

Required profile

Knowledge:

• How public administrations operate
• Administrative and financial policies, systems, and procedures
• Proficiency in office software

Skills:

• Teamwork
• Applying procedures and rules
• Demonstrate teaching skills

Interpersonal skills:

• Organizational skills
• Ability to adapt
• Autonomy

About the position

Position status: Vacant from January 5, 2026

Reference occupation: Financial management assistant

The Techniques, Territories, and Societies Laboratory (LATTS, UMR 8134, CNRS, École des Ponts, Gustave Eiffel University) invites candidates for the CNRS competition (sections 39, 42, 43, CID 52, and 53) who wish to obtain its support to contact the laboratory management:

• Elsa Vivantelsa.vivant@univ-eiffel.fr
• Jonathan Rutherfordjonathan.rutherford@enpc.fr

Please send us a document presenting the CNRS project, along with a brief CV and a letter explaining your reasons for requesting support, by Friday, November 21, 2025, at the latest.

Initially, applications will be reviewed by the laboratory council in early December in order to issue a letter confirming their suitability for the LATTS scientific project. Subsequently, for those who are eligible and wish to be assigned to LATTS, support will be offered in preparation for the interview, as well as an opportunity to meet with members of the laboratory.

For more information on the laboratory's research areas, please visit the "Laboratory" page on our website: https://latts.fr/.

Good luck to everyone!

The LATTS Management Team

Application deadline: August 15, 2025

Download the offer: Internship offer

Second International Workshop of the Planetary Financialization Research Project

February 5, 6, and 7, 2025.

Interdisciplinary workshop on planetary financialization, co-organized by Ludovic Halbert, researcher at the CNRS attached to the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS, Gustave Eiffel University), Lucia Shimbo, professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of São Paulo and 2024-2025 resident researcher at the IEA in Paris, and Ivana Socoloff, CONICET researcher affiliated with the Instituto de América Latina y el Caribe (IEALC, University of Buenos Aires).

The concept of "global financialization," inspired by the 2010s debate on "global urbanization,
" highlights the key role of capitalist accumulation in the transformation of spaces, communities, and environments on a global scale, from agricultural land, forests, and mining sites to the urban areas they support.

The hypothesis of global financialization offers a conceptual platform for transcending current scientific fragmentation and fostering interdisciplinary dialogue. With this in mind, the International Workshops
seek to engage critically with this concept. The goal is to work toward a refined definition of this notion and to anchor it in multiple theoretical traditions (Marxist, feminist, political ecology, etc.) by developing appropriate methodologies to study its possibilities and limitations in a context of systemic social, environmental, and political crises.

The project brings together specialists eager to share their knowledge of the existing literature and to create a first comprehensive mapping of global financialization, its geographical, social, and ecological variations, its actors, instruments, and policies in the North and South.

This series of international scientific events will culminate in the publication of the book Financialization and Space. Following the first workshop in May 2024, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this second workshop will focus on the presentation of the complete chapters proposed for the book, as well as its structure, with workshop discussions.

Event closed to the public.

“Artificial Intelligence and Medicine” – Issue coordinated by Gérald Gaglio and Alexandre Mathieu-Fritz.

SUMMARY OF THE DOSSIER:

Introduction

AI, medicine, and social sciences – A perspective. By Gérald Gaglio and Alexandre Mathieu-Fritz

Artificial intelligence and medicine:

Intertwining and “professionalization” of socio-technical promises. The case of AI in radiology. By Lise Arena, Gérald Gaglio, and Jean-Sébastien Vayre

Beyond explainability. Study of the design of intelligible artificial intelligence in pathological anatomy and cytology. By Océane Fiant, Camille Franchet, and Robin Schwob

The dermatologist, melanoma, and artificial intelligence. The (slow) development of uses and transformations in clinical reflexivity. By Alexandre Mathieu-Fritz and Dilara Trupia

The coding of medical information put to the test by AI. Performance and uncertainty of coding in hospitals. By Loubna Echajari, Hugo Jeanningros, and Myriam Lewkowicz

The production of mortality data. The improvement of coding procedures supported by deep learning. By Isabella Feroni

The black box and the doctor. Investigation into the legal issue of the explainability of medical AI. By Sonia Desmoulin

Reading notes:

Ulises A. MEJIAS and Nick COULDRY, Data Grab. The New Colonialism of Big Tech (and How to Fight Back), London, WH Allen, 2024, 303 p. By Sébastien Broca

Melchior SIMIONI and Philippe STEINER, The Matching Society, Paris, Sciences Po Les Presses, 2024, 172 p. By Tristan Dominguez

The session will take place in B235 (Bienvenüe Building) and will be broadcast via videoconferencing.
Session on Photographing Greater Paris

By: Nathalie Roseau

The Sea, the Windmill, and the Citizen

By: Arnaud Passalacqua

Discussant: Claire le Renard