science and society |

welcome to this website dedicated to your 2026 winter school resources

syllabus |

the course syllabus, including the programme of the week

date	presentation slides
monday 19	1 `\|` the gender of science
tuesday 20	2 `\|` a politics of things
wednesday 21	3 `\|` rethinking expertise
thursday 22	4 `\|` environmental social sciences

the lectures are taught in english; slides are uploaded every day

during the four afternoon sessions, you will work on some of the following thematic corpora; other resources could be shared by your seminar teacher

the domestication of what?	a political economy of grains	en
glyphosate controversies	the production of risk assessment expertise in europe	en
living with hiv-aids	politics of knowledge in an epidemic	en
mapping the world	cartography, power and society 1492–1945	en
star wars	revolutions in astronomy and politics in the 19th-century	en
les controverses du glyphosate	une enquête sur la production d’expertise des risques dans l’ue	fr
la guerre des étoiles	révolutions politiques et astronomiques au 19e siècle	fr
vivre avec le sida	des luttes menées sur le terrain des savoirs	fr

this year exam will take place on friday 23, from 8.30 to 11.30am

year	topic a (en)	topic b (fr)
2026 exam	is it accurate to describe obesity as an epidemic?	quel sens donner aux rétractations d’articles scientifiques ?
2025 exam	should we care about transgender athletes’ performance?	est-il pertinent de recenser où nos parents sont nés ?
2024 exam	is long covid a thing?	une retenue éthique d’eau est-elle possible ?
2023 exam	are women the fairer sex?	protéger 30% de la planète d’ici 2030
2022 exam	should we judge species on their origins?	rendre visible l’endométriose
2021 exam	sleeping with the enemy: bed bugs come back	que faire pour les “malades chroniques” de lyme ?
2020 exam	does episiotomy equate obstetrical violence?	l’invasion des algues sargasses aux antilles, une catastrophe naturelle ?