The seminar
The seminar is organised around presentations of work carried out by researchers who are members of LATTS or other institutions.
Practical information
The works/books presented and discussed fall within the two general themes chosen for the seminar: “technology and politics” and “current events in urban studies“.
The organising team consists of:
Sessions are generally held on Mondays from 2:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. in hybrid mode (at the LATTS premises and via videoconference).
Monday, 11 May 2026 (2 p.m.)
Session on Liliana Doganova’s book, Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology, Presses des Mines, 2024.
Monday, 20 April 2026 (2 p.m.)
Session based on Gaspard Lion’s book, Vivre au camping. Un mal-logement des classes populaires (Living at the campsite: poor housing for the working classes). Seuil, 2024.
Thursday, 19 March 2026 (2 p.m.)
Session on Maxime Polleri’s book, Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Revitalisation in Post-Fukushima Japan, New York University Press, 2026.
Programme for the Radioactive Governance General Seminar session
Monday, 23 February 2026 (2 p.m.)
Session based on Nelo Magalhães’ book, Accumulating Concrete, Building Roads: An Environmental History of Major Infrastructure Projects, La Fabrique Éditions, 2024.
Programme for the General Seminar session Accumulating Concrete, Building Roads
Monday, 19 January 2026 (2 p.m.)
Session on the book Sociologie des Gilets jaunes. Reproduction et luttes sociales (Sociology of the Yellow Vests: Reproduction and Social Struggles), Le Bord de l’eau, 2024. Edited by Antoine Bernard de Raymond and Sylvain Bordiec.
Programme for the General Seminar session on the Sociology of the Yellow Vests
Monday, 15 December 2025 (2 p.m.)
Session on the book Sociologie des circuits financiers. Les infrastructures de l’argent et leurs politiques (Sociology of Financial Circuits: The Infrastructure of Money and Its Policies), Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2025. Edited by Eve Chiapello and Alexandre Violle.
Programme for the General Seminar session on the Sociology of Financial Circuits
Monday, 24 November 2025 (2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.)
Session based on the book Nos lieux communs. Une géographie du monde contemporain (Our Common Ground: A Geography of the Contemporary World), Fayard, 2024. Edited by Michel Bussi, Martine Drozdz and Fabrice Argounès.
Programme for the General Seminar session Nos lieux communs
Monday, 19 May 2025
Nathalie Roseau and her colleagues
Session on Photographing Greater Paris
Monday, 28 April 2025
Arnaud Passalacqua
Session on The Sea, the Wind Turbine and the Citizen
Monday, 31 March 2025
Margot Pellegrino
Session focusing on a book she will publish in December
Monday, 10 February 2025
Paul Landauer
Session focusing on a forthcoming book
Monday, 20 January 2025
Anne Clerval
Session on Les Naufragés du Grand Paris Express (The Castaways of the Grand Paris Express)
Monday, 16 December 2024
Nathan Marom
Monday, 28 October 2024
François-Mathieu Poupeau
Session on The State in Search of an Energy and Climate Strategy
Monday, 15 October 2024
Olivier Coutard and Daniel Florentin
Session on Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities
Monday, 10 June 2024
Antoine Guironnet and Ludovic Halbert
The Urban Empire of Finance: Power and Inequality in Asset Management Capitalism.
Editions Amsterdam, 2023, 320 p. Group
discussion
Programme for the session on 10 June 2024
Monday, 29 April 2024
Corinne Delmas
Session on the theoretical framework of her research work. Group
discussion by sociology doctoral students from the laboratory
Programme for the session on 29 April 2024
Monday, 11 March 2024
Eric Verdeil (Sciences Po), Sylvy Jaglin, Alix Chaplain (Sciences Po), Bérénice Girard (EHESS)
Session focusing on a special issue of the Journal of Urban Technology devoted to electric hybridisation in cities in the Global South.
Discussant: Roberta Pistoni
Programme for the session on 11 March 2024
Monday, 26 February 2024
Gilles Jeannot and Simon Cottin-Marx Digital
Privatisation, Raison d’agir, 2022
Discussant: Antoine Courmont
Programme for the session on 26 February 2024
Monday, 22 January 2024
Sabrina Bresson (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
The disappointments of citizen participation, Presse Universitaire François-Rabelais, 2022
With the participation of Hélène Hatzfeld (LAVUE)
Discussants: Mariana Cyrino and Pauline Gali.
Programme for the session on 22 January 2024
Monday, 18 December 2023
Kostas Chatzis
Forecasting travel in urban America. The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modelling World, MIT Press, 2023
Discussant: Matthias Heinrich.
Programme for the session on 18 December 2023
Monday, 27 November 2023
Jérôme Denis (MinesParis-PSL)
David Pontille (CNRS)
Caring for Things: Maintenance Policies La Découverte, 2023
Programme for the session on 27 November 2023
Monday, 15 May 2023
Carlotta Darò (ENSA Paris-Malaquais)
Aesthetics and Telecommunications. Landscape of Lines, Metis Presses, 2022
Discussant: Antoine Picon
Programme for the session on 15 May 2023
Monday, 17 April 2023
Andrew Harris: Review of his research stay as a visiting scholar at LATTS.
Discussant: group discussion.
Programme for the session on 17 April 2023
Monday, 6 March 2023
Nathalie Roseau
The Future of Metropolises: Time and Infrastructure, MetisPresses, 2022
Discussant: Jonathan Rutherford
Programme for the session on 6 March 2023
Monday, 13 February 2023
Armelle Choplin
Matière grise de l’urbain. La vie du ciment en Afrique (Urban Grey Matter: The Life of Cement in Africa), MetisPresses, 2020
Discussant: Claire Simonneau
Programme for the session on 13 February 2023
Monday, 16 January 2023
Fanny Lopez (Eavt Paris Est at UGE)
L’ordre électrique, MétisPresses, 2019
Discussants: Sylvy Jaglin, Margot Pellegrino, Eric Verdeil
Programme for the session on 16 January 2023
Friday, 9 December 2022
Isadora Cruxên (Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London)
Finance and Water Politics in Brazil
Discussants: Félix Adisson and Daniel Sanfelici
Programme for the session on 9 December 2022
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Stève Bernardin (lecturer and researcher at UGE, LATTS) Private
Crusades and Public Problems: The Sociological Legacy of Joseph Gusfield, PUR, 2022 (collective work)
Discussant: Youenn Gourain
Programme for the session on 16 November 2022
Monday, 17 October 2022
Giacomo Parrinello (lecturer and researcher at Sciences Po)
The Water Engine: The Rise and Fall of Water-Intensive Growth in the Po River Basin, 1800-2003
Discussants: Olivier Coutard, Daniel Florentin and Nathalie Roseau.
Programme for the session on 17 October 2022
Monday, 20 June 2022
Jonathan Rutherford Reflections on the Study of Urban Infrastructure Discussant: Nathalie Roseau
Programme for the session on Monday, 20 June 2022
Monday, 23 May 2022
Timothy Moss
Seminar on the theme: Urban infrastructures mediating the Cold War divide: West and East Berlin, 1948–1989 Discussant: Denis Bocquet Programme for the session on Monday, 23 May 2022
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Elsa Vivant and Christian Lefèvre
Seminar on the theme: Fictionising the city. A look back at two writing experiences
Programme for the session on Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Monday, 17 January 2022
Jean-Marc Offner. Seminar based on the book:
Anachronismes urbains (Urban Anachronisms), Jean-Marc Offner, Les Presses de Sciences Po, 2020.
Programme for the session on Monday, 17 January 2022
Monday, 6 December 2021
Phil Ashton, University of Chicago, visiting professor at LATTS (I-Site).
How many bankers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Chicago’s public building retrofits and the political geographies of assetisation.
Programme for the session on 6 December 2021
Monday, 22 November 2021
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher. Seminar on the book:
Les Révoltes du ciel. Une histoire du changement climatique XVe-XXe siècle (The Revolutions of the Sky: A History of Climate Change in the 15th-20th Centuries), Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher, 2020
Programme for the session on Monday, 22 November 2021
Monday, 14 June 2021
Geneviève Zembri, Seminar on the book:
Uncertainty and Risk in Planning and Urban Development. Between control and instrumentalisation of project risks, Geneviève Zembri-Mary, ISTE Editions, 2020, 314 p.
Discussant: Inès Ramirez-Cobo
Programme for the session on 14 June 2021
Monday, 17 May 2021
Marion Ernwein (lecturer in environmental geography at the Open University and associate researcher at the University of Oxford), Seminar on the book:
Les natures de la ville néolibérale : Une écologie politique du végétal urbain (The Natures of the Neoliberal City: A Political Ecology of Urban Plants), Marion Ernwein, UGA Editions, 2019, 240 p.
Discussant: Jonathan Rutherford
Programme for the session on 17 May 2021
Monday, 22 March 2021
Romain Garcier (École normale supérieure de Lyon, Environment, City, Society Laboratory (EVS, UMR 5600)), Seminar on the theme “The metabolism of societies. Genealogy, uses and pitfalls.”
Programme for the session on 22 March 2021
Monday, 8 February 2021
François Jarrige (MC, University of Burgundy/Member of the IUF), Seminar on the theme “Machines and the First Socialists” and presentation/discussion of the book: Taming Prometheus: Technologies and Socialism in the Romantic Age (1820-1870), François Jarrige, Puf, 2016, 288 p.
Discussant: Antoine Picon
Programme for the session on 8 February 2021
Monday, 18 January 2021
Gilles Pinson (P, University of Bordeaux), Seminar on the book:
La ville néolibérale (The Neoliberal City), Gilles Pinson, Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2020, 160 p.
Discussant: Nicolas Maisetti
Programme for the session on 18 January 2021
Monday, 14 December 2020
Seminar on overview publications:
Sociology of Consumption, Hélène Ducourant (MCF, UGE), Ana Perrin-Heredia (CR, CNRS), Armand Colin, 2019, 224 p.
Analysing Multi-Level Governance, François-Mathieu Poupeau (PR, CNRS), Pug, 2017, 262 p.
The New Sociologies of Work, Introduction to the Sociology of Activity, Pascal Ughetto (PR, UGE), Editions De Boeck Supérieur, 2018, 160 p.
Programme for the session on 14 December 2020
Monday, 23 November 2020
Julien Migozzi (EC, ENS ULM / associate researcher, PACTE), Seminar on his doctoral work:
A city for sale. Digitisation and financialisation of the housing market in Cape Town: stratification and segregation of the emerging metropolis.
Discussant: Alexandre Coulondre
Programme for the session on 23 November 2020
Session of 12 October 2020
Dominique Lorrain (associate researcher, LATTS), Seminar on the return of the book:
Urban Planning 1.0. Investigation of a municipality in Greater Paris, Dominique Lorrain, Raisons d’agir, 2018, 368 p.
Programme for the session of 12 October 2020