science and society | reims 2026
welcome to this website dedicated to your 2026 winter school resources
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 ? |