Les conférences de ce cycle interdisciplinaire auront lieu alternativement à New York et à Paris et se dérouleront tout au long de l'année académique 2016-2017 ; les captations audiovisuelles seront disponibles en direct et en différé sur la chaîne de l'École polytechnique.
 

Organisateurs : Frédéric Brechenmacher (Professeur d'histoire des sciences, LinX, École polytechnique) & Pamela H. Smith (Seth Low Professor of History, Center for Science and Society - Columbia University)

PROGRAMME :

> 13 septembre 2016, 18h00 - 20h00 (heure de New York) -"Science, Technology and the Logics of Preventive War"

Keynote speaker

Thomas Lindemann, Professor of Political Science, LinX,  École Polytechnique

Round table

• Carol Cohn,  Founding Director of the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
• Yasmine Ergas, Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy, Columbia University
• Tim Halpin-Healy, Professor of Physics, Barnard College - Columbia University
• Robert Jervis, Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University

> 14 novembre 2016, 18h30 - 20h30 (heure de Paris ) -"Racism and Public Health"

Keynote speaker

Samuel Kelton Roberts, Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Roundtable

•  Soraya Boudia,  Professor of Sociology, Center for Research in Medicine, Science, Health, Mental health, and Society, Université Paris-Descartes,
•  Renaud Crespin, Research associate Professor in Political Science at CNRS, Center for the Sociology of Organizations / Sciences-Po
• Bruno Falissard, Professor of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine - Université Paris-Sud,  Member of the National Academy of Medicine

> 15 décembre 2016, 17h00 - 19h (heure de New York ) -  "Climate Change and the Anthropocene"

Keynote speaker

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Researcher at CNRS - Centre Koyé : "The anthropocenic sublime : a critique"

Roundtable

• Adam Sobel, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
• Frankie Pavia,  Ph.D. student at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
• Deborah Coen, Professor of History, Barnard College - Columbia University

> 21 avril 2017, 18h30 - 20h30 (heure de Paris ) -  "Big Data and Society"

Keynote speaker

Matthew L. Jones, James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University

Roundtable to be announced