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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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...
Meeting “Epistemological and practical issues of integrative approaches in environmental health” – Lyon February 4-5, 2021
Comité d’organisation / Organizing committee Elodie Giroux, Yohan Fayet, Thibaut...
WORKSHOP « L’environnement : des sciences naturelles aux sciences humaines et sociales »
Workshop organized by Francesca Merlin (IHPST), Gaëlle Pontarotti (IHPST) and Antoine C. Dussault (CIRST Montréal) 5-6 November 2020 Online via Zoom Language: French PROGRAMME 05 novembre 2020 Participer à la réunion Zoom :...
Welcome to Gaëlle Pontarotti, our new postdoc!
We are pleased to welcome Gaëlle Pontarotti, who will be hired on September 1st 2020 as postdoc in the context of the EnviroBioSoc project. She will work on « The concept(s) of environment as determinant of health and disease in life and social studies » & «...