New publication
- Assembling the planet
ANDERSSON Jenny and DUHAUTOIS Sibylle (2016), "Futures of Mankind: the emergence of the global future".
Publication
- Nouvelle publication
Jenny Andersson and Egle Rinzeviciute. The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future.
This book reconsiders the power of the idea of the future. Bringing together perspectives from cultural history, environmental history, political history and the history of science, it investigates how the future became a specific field of action in liberal democratic, state socialist and post-colonial regimes after the Second World War.
Histories of prediction
- Predictions (photo: Christian Schnettelker)
Interdisciplinary workshop, bringing together historians and historians of science, STS scholars, sociologists and antropologists, around the theme of the history and uses of prediction in a range of fields.
The workshop is the final conference of the Futurepol project.
The workshop took place at Sciences Po, on Friday and Saturday April 15 and 16, 2016.
Prediction as a Source of Social Power
Writing the history of the "neoliberal turn"
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Workshop Writing the history of the "neoliberal turn"
Knowledges, practices and expertises (1960s-1980s)
17th October, 2014
Workshop organized by par Jenny Andersson and Nicolas Delalande (Centre d’études européennes / Futurepol et Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po)
Publication - Governing the Future
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Jenny Andersson has published together with Anne-Greet Keizer in History and Technology an article comparing the Swedish and Dutch experiences regarding the setting of institutions dedicated to the long term.
Citation: Jenny Andersson, Anne-Greet Keizer, Governing the future: science, policy and public participation in the construction of the long term in the Netherlands and Sweden, History and Technology, 2014, Vol. 30, iss. 1-2, p. 104-122.
The Futurepol team
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Futurepol: new recruitments and new research.
New members have recently joined the Futurepol project at Sciences Po.
Sibylle Duhautois has been recruited as a research assistant to explore the UNESCO archives and contribute to the analysis of the role of this multilateral institution in the global governance of futurology and prediction.
Activities
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Varsovie - 12-13rd June 2014
Vitezslav Sommer will participate to the annual conference of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena entitled "State Repression in Socialist Central Europe.
Futurepol Seminar
- US National Archives
Monday, 18th March 2013 - 12:30-14:30
Nuclear Futures
- Trojan nuclear plant at Ranier, 1973 - US National Archives
Nuclear Futures
Tuesday, 12th February 2013 - 14:30-17:30
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