Seminar of 23/05/2017 on The Politics of Epistemic Vulnerability in The Nuclear Age ( Chaire Sciences Po-CERI & USPC)

The construction of futures has become a common activity in the functioning and management of a vast number of the economy’s subsectors: agencies, both public and private, governmental and non-governmental, increasingly resort to the expertise of modellers and scenario makers to anticipate what aspects of the future they deem relevant to their activities will look like. However, anticipating is only one of the aims: even more important is the ability to build futures, possibly have the power to monopolize this ability, and ultimately acquire enough credibility to impose them. In the case study I propose in this paper – shale gas in Poland – the construction of futures is closely linked to the concepts of technoscientific promise and sociotechnical imaginary. In both cases I show that nationally centred narratives and the promise of larger energy autonomy, together with the ability of mastering modelling instruments, have acquired these visions of the future a performative power, enabling their proponents to mobilise people and means to their materialisation, and contextually leading to the dismissal of alternative solutions.

With :

Roberto Cantoni, Sciences Po-CERI

Discussant: Pierre-Benoit Joly, INRA-IFRIS

Academic coordinator : Benoît Pélopidas (Sciences Po-CERI)

Ce séminaire se déroulera en français et en anglais

Séminaire du 22/05/2017 en partenariat avec la Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et canadiennes (CREQC), UQAM

L'Avenir des nations : continuité et ruptures/ The Future of Nations : Continuity and Breaks

Nationalism, Religion and Conflict

With :

Jonathan Fox, Bar Ilan University

Religious and National Causes of Discrimination against Religious Minorities, 1990-2014

Pierre de Senarclens, Université de Lausanne

Freud and the emotional aspects of religion and nationalism

Responsables scientifiques: Alain Dieckhoff (Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS) et Alain-G.Gagnon (CREQC-UQAM)

Séminaire de recherche du 15/05/2017

En partenariat avec la Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et canadiennes (CREQC), UQAM

organisent un cycle de séminaires:

L'Avenir des nations : continuité et ruptures/ The Future of Nations : Continuity and Breaks

Nationalism as a Liberal Project: Constructed Myths, Contested Narratives and Systems of Meaning

With :

Uriel Abulof, Tel Aviv University & Princeton University

The Return of the National Tribe and the Cracks in the Liberal Social Contracts

Alain-G. Gagnon, Université du Québec, Montréal

Nationalism under Scrutiny : Failures of the Nation-States and Promises of Liberal Nationalism and Multinational Federalism

Responsables scientifiques: Alain Dieckhoff (Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS) et Alain-G.Gagnon (CREQC-UQAM)

Colloque du 5/05/2017 organisée en partenariat avec l'Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)

à l'occasion du 20ème anniversaire de trois études cruciales :

Panel 2: Advances on the governance of nuclear weapons in France

Thierry Balzacq, session chair, presents the panel: 00.00.01 – 00.02.50 (F)

- Benoit Pelopidas and Sébastien Philippe, On the Foundations of Nuclear Bonapartism: Gaullist networks, the French Atomic Energy Commission and the legacy of wartime clandestine action: 00.03.04 – 00.15.30 (F)

- Grey Anderson, French intellectuals and nuclear debate in the 1980s: 00.15.33 – 00.29.30 (E)

- Yannick Pincé, The French political debate on nuclear energy in the 1980s: 00.29.50 – 00.44.20 (F)

- Florent Pouponneau, The effects of the end of Cold War on French non-proliferation policies: 00.44.21 – 00.59.03 (F)

Discussion

- Dominique Mongin: 00.59.20 – 01.18.15 (F)

- Beatrice Heuser: 01.18.20 – 01.27.51 (F)

Q&A: 01.27.52 – 2.15.52

Panel 3: Security and safety: the temporal challenges

Benoît Pelopidas, session chair, presents the panel: 02.16.00 – 02.17.50

- Miyuki Tsuchyia: An analysis of catastrophes from a comparative perspective: 02.17.54 – 02.37.13

- Julie Blanck: Governing the long term: the role of ANDRA: 02.37.15 – 02.54.40 (F)

- Leny Patinaux: The administration of waste burying safety: 02.54.41 – 03.10.25 (F)

- Benoit Pelopidas: The memorialization of the Cuban Crisis in France: 03.10.35 – 03.32.18 (F)

- Sezin Topcu: Governance of the French nuclear contestation: 03.32.25 – 03.57.55 (F)

Discussion

- Karena Kalmbach: 03.58.00 – 04.09.25 (E)

Q&A: 04.09.31 – 04.29.39

Colloque du 05/05/2017 organisée en partenariat avec l'Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)

Introduction and presentation of the USPC Security Chair

- Alain Dieckhoff, Workshop presentation: 00.00.00 – 00.08.03 (F)

- Benoît Pelopidas, Chair presentation: 00.08.23 – 00.26.53 (F)

- William Walker, Reflections on the relevance of a security studies chair focusing on nuclear vulnerability: 00.27.00 – 00.34.03 (E)

- Benoît Pelopidas, Presentation of the Chair’s members, activities, and publications: 00.34.05 – 00.41.50 (F)

- Roberto Cantoni, Short summary of the paper « What’s in a Pipe ? »: 00.41.52 – 00.43.53 (F)

- BP, Continuation of the presentation of the Chair + Presentation of panels: 00.43.55 – 00.57.00 (F)

Panel 1: Transnationalize French nuclear experience

William Walker, session chair, presents the panel: 00.57.08 – 00.58.34 (E)

- Jayita Sarkar, New perspectives on French-Indian cooperation: 00.58.36 – 01.18.20 (E)

- Anna-Mart van Wyk, Links between France and South Africa: 01.18.54 – 01.46.20 (E)

- Anna Konieckzna, New sources on the links between France and South Africa: 01.46.30 – 02.00.50 (F)

Discussion

- Béatrice Heuser: 02.01.02 – 02.06.20 (E)

- Roberto Cantoni: 02.06.25 – 02.15.00 (E)

Q&A Panel 1: 02.15.30 – 02.40.44

Sortir l'Afrique de la servitude monétaire ? Les politiques financières face aux mobilisations sociales et aux défis du développement.

Débat du 03/05/2017 dans le cadre du Groupe de recherche Afrique : citoyenneté, violence et politique

en collaboration avec l'Association des Chercheurs de Politique africaine (ACPA) et la revue Politique africaine

avec

Kako Nubukpo, directeur de la francophonie économique et numérique à l'OIF, chercheur associé à Oxford, University College

et auteur, avec Bruno Tinel, Martial-Ze Belinga et Demba Moussa Dembélé, de Sortir l'Afrique de la servitude monétaire : A qui profite le franc CFA ?, aux éditions La dispute, 2016

Président de séance : Boris Samuel, chercheur associé, Sciences Po-CERI

Discutants :

Bruno Théret, Université Paris Dauphine

Benjamin Lemoine, Université Paris Dauphine

Richard Banégas, Sciences Po-CERI

Responsables scientifiques : Boris Samuel, Sandrine Perrot, Richard Banégas, Laurent Fourchard, Roland Marchal

Photo : Shutterstock

Séminaire du 10/04/2017

Le Centre de Recherches Internationales de Sciences Po (CERI),en partenariat avec la Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et canadiennes (CREQC), UQAM

organisent un cycle de séminaires:

L'Avenir des nations : continuité et ruptures/ The Future of Nations : Continuity and Breaks

Lundi 10 avril 017

Reactionary vs Emancipatory Nationalism

With:

Jule Goikoetxea, IGSC Oxford and University of the Basque Country, Bilbao

Emancipatory nationalism and democratization

Daniel Salée, School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, Montreal

Reactionary VS Emancipatory Nationalism: on Quebec Nationalism and False Dichotomies

Responsables scientifiques: Alain Dieckhoff (Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS) et Alain-G.Gagnon (CREQC-UQAM)

Séminaire de recherche du 27/03/2017

En partenariat avec la Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et canadiennes (CREQC), UQAM

organisent un cycle de séminaires:

L'Avenir des nations : continuité et ruptures/ The Future of Nations : Continuity and Breaks

Long Distance Nationalism

With:

Daniel Conversi, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao

Long distance nationalism in the 'post-truth' era: exclusions and expulsions as diasporic online strategies

Alain Dieckhoff, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS, Paris

The Jewish diaspora and Israel: belonging at distance?

Responsables scientifiques: Alain Dieckhoff (Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS) et Alain-G.Gagnon (CREQC-UQAM)

Sous la présidence d'Alain Dieckhoff, directeur, Sciences Po-CERI

avec

Jan-Werner Müller, professeur, Princeton University, auteur de Qu'est-ce que le populisme ? Définir enfin la menace*

Discutants :

Nonna Mayer, directrice de recherche émérite, Sciences Po-CEE, CNRS

Christophe Jaffrelot, directeur de recherche, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

* Editions Premier Parallèle, Paris, 2016

Responsable scientifique : Alain Dieckhoff, Sciences Po-CERI

Débat du 21/03/2017 à l'occasion de la publication prochaine, par Olivier Roy, de Jihad and Death. The Global Appeal of Islamic State*

Sous la présidence de Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

avec

Alain Dieckhoff, directeur, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

Olivier Roy, European University Institute, Florence

Laurent Bonnefoy, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

*coll. "Comparative Politics & International Studies", Hurst Publishers, avril 2017

Responsables scientifiques : Alain Dieckhoff, directeur, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS et Christophe Jaffrelot, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS, directeurs de la collection