Disasters and Risks
This seminar, run at CERI by Sandrine Revet and Cassandre Rey-Thibault (CEE), contributes to the ‘Violence and management of danger’ laboratory 's research stream . Since 2009, the Catastrophes and Risks seminar has brought together researchers from different disciplines to discuss issues raised by disasters and risk situations. It aims to lay the foundations for this dialogue by taking the study of disasters out of their specificities (‘natural’ and ‘technological’ disasters, health crises, nuclear disasters, etc.). The seminar places empirical research on ‘at-risk’ situations or disasters at the heart of the discussion.
In 2025, the seminar will explore a variety of disasters and risk situations, looking at how they are governed and understood by different types of stakeholder. The seminar will raise methodological questions, and also look at these situations as moments of possible recomposition - both as factors and contributors to the disaster, and as levers of post-disaster transformation. It will involve a wide range of disciplines, including history, sociology, anthropology, geography and law.
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2025
Jeudi, 23 janvier 2025, 16-18h
Diego Arango López. professeur du Département de Pédagogie d'Histoire, Géographie et Sciences Sociales de l'Université Catholique de Maule, à Talca, Chili
“Histoire du risque d’incendie à Valparaiso, Chili. 1834-1906”
Salle G009, 28 rue des Saint-Pères
Vendredi 14 mars 2025, 16h-18h
Brice Molo (Afriques - Noria et CERMES 3)
“Le désastre comme passeport. L'État et la construction d'un exceptionnalisme victimaire et environnemental au Cameroun, 1980-2000”
Salle G009, 28 rue des Saint-Pères
Jeudi 27 mars, 16h-18h
Mathilde Hermelin-Burnol, EVS, Université de St Etienne,
“Prévenir le risque d’exposition des riverains aux pesticides ou se prévenir des riverains ? Apports d’une approche géographique”
Vendredi 11 avril, 16h-18h
Juliette Woitchik, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles (affiliée au CESIR).
“Ethnographie sensible d'une catastrophe minière : le fleuve Rio Doce et ses entités, à Regência, Brésil”
Vendredi 16 mai 2025, 16h-18h
Valérie Arnhold, OCE Research Center, EMLYON Business School
“Des crises (in)comparables ? Organisations et expertise face aux accidents nucléaires « majeurs » (1979-2019)”
Jeudi 26 juin 2025, 16h-18h
Reiko Hasegawa, CSO, Sciences Po
“Les déplacés et les personnes piégées à Fukushima: "Le droit au déplacement" pour la protection des populations en cas de catastrophes environnementales”
The following themes have been considered: Disasters, risks and social sciences (2009-2011, with Julien Langumier); Simulations (2011-2012, with Marc Elie et Frédéric Keck).
In 2012-2013, three workshops have been organized : Haïti : after the disaster ; Sciences and disasters ; Disasters and religion.
Between 2012 and 2014, the group worked with Sophie Houdart and Vanessa Manceron from LESC (Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparée, University of Nanterre) to host the seminar on The Measure of Danger.
In 2015, together with Alain Musset (Centre de recherches historiques, EHESS) and Virginia Garcia Acosta from CIESAS in Mexico considered the issue of “Crossing dialogues and discourses: disasters and interdisciplinarity.”
In 2016-2017, with Vanessa Manceron, the seminar worked on the issue of “What Law had made to nature. Disasters, risks, environment and justice.”
The research group is currently part of the ANR RAVEX project.
