The environment and human health across life and social sciences
How the environment, as inducer of health and disease states, is conceived and operationalized in life and social sciences?
Which attitude should we adopt toward the multiplicity of concepts and metrics of the environment across all these sciences?
Is such a plurality temporal and solvable, and how, or is it permanent and ineliminable?
And what does this imply for the research approach adopted in the life and in the social sciences?
The EnviroBioSoc project is structured in three tasks
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Marco Pavanini’s internship
We are please to welcome Marco Pavanini for a six-month internship in the context of the EnviroBioSoc project.
EnviroBioSoc Seminar 2022-23
PROGRAM (Automn-Winter 2022-23) The seminar will take place in Paris (IHPST, Conference Room, 2nd Floor, 13 rue du Four, 75006) and in Lyon (TBA). Each session will be both in-person and online (Zoom). Paris, October 17th, 2022, 2:30pm: Stefano CANALI...
Welcome to Thomas Bonnin, our second postdoc!
We are pleased to welcome Thomas Bonnin, who has just been hired as postdoc in the context of the EnviroBioSoc project (September 2022-June 2023).
Thematic Issue – Biological Theory
Conceptualizing the Environment in Natural Sciences Conceptualizing the Environment in Natural Sciences: Guest Editorial Gaëlle Pontarotti, Antoine C. Dussault & Francesca Merlin The Rise of the “Environment”: Lamarckian Environmentalism Between Life...
Call for applications: PhD research contrat (1 year) – EnviroBioSoc Project (envirobiosoc.cnrs.fr)
General informations Workplace : IHPST, UMR 8590, CNRS & Université Paris 1 (Paris, France)Type of Contract : PostdocContract Period : 12 monthsExpected date of employment : 1 June 2022Proportion of work : Full timeRemuneration : Between 2700 and 3000 € gross per...
ENVIROBIOSOC Seminar 2022
PROGRAM (Winter-Spring 2022) Each session will be both in-person (if possible with respect to the sanitary situation) and online (Zoom). January 3rd, 2022 : (closed session) planning meeting January 27th, 2022 (10am) : Maurizio MELONI (Deakin University) ...
ENVIROBIOSOC Symposium at SPS 2021 Meeting
ENVIROBIOSOC Symposium "The environment in the body in the postgenomic era: new narratives? The case of exposome, osteoporosis, and race", organized by Francesca MERLIN -Elodie GIROUX & Francesca MERLIN "Deterministic narratives in exposomics: towards a reversed...
Workshop “Postgenomic Determinisms” – March 25-26, 2021 – online
POSTGENOMIC DETERMINISMS: Enviromental Narratives after the Century of the Gene March 25-26, 2021 (online) https://rotoworkshop2021.wixsite.com/pgdeterminisms Join us at this workshop focusing on the new postgenomic trend towards environmental determinism. It aims to...
Working group “Social environment, biological incorporation” – 2nd session
Friday, December 11st 2020, at 9am Second virtual session of the groupe devoted to the notion of "biological embedding" as it has been discussed and used by Clyde Hertzman See, for instance, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23045673/. Presentation by Séverine Louvel....
Working group “Social environment, biological incorporation” – 1st session
Friday, October 16th, 2020 at 9am First virtual session of the groupe devoted to the discussion of Mathieu Arminjon's work on the history of the allostatic model. References: Arminjon, M. (2014). Allostasie: cérébralité, physiologie et normativité sociale. Bulletin...
