LEST seminars and conferences
A structured and collaborative scientific life
LEST’s seminars and conferences are a central part of the laboratory’s scientific activity. They facilitate exchanges between teams, research areas and disciplines, and support collaborative and interdisciplinary research.
General seminars
General seminars provide a regular forum for discussion of work in progress and the laboratory’s main scientific priorities. They encourage dialogue between different approaches and enhance the coherence of the research carried out at LEST.
Themed series and events
Specific programmes and one-off events complement this framework, exploring certain themes in greater depth, such as changes in the world of work and open science. They also provide an opportunity to welcome external speakers and broaden scientific dialogue.
A spirit of openness and cooperation
All of these events contribute to the vitality of LEST, to the circulation of knowledge and to the establishment of research that is open, collaborative and connected to major contemporary issues.
General Seminar
The séminaire général du LEST constitue un temps fort de la vie scientifique du laboratoire. Ouvert à l’ensemble de ses membres ainsi qu’à des intervenants extérieurs, il favorise le dialogue entre disciplines, la présentation de recherches en cours et les échanges autour des grands enjeux contemporains des sciences sociales du travail.
Research area seminar
The research group seminars are at the heart of LEST’s scientific activities. They provide a forum for discussion on ongoing research, foster dialogue between disciplines and help to bring to life the questions addressed by the research areas Change, Organisation, Transition (COT), Youth, Education and Mobility (JEM) and Risks, Standards, Industrial Relations (RINOREP).
IMPEC Seminar: Multimodal Screen-Based Interactions
The IMPEC seminar is a multidisciplinary, inter-laboratory, hybrid and travelling seminar which brings together researchers from different disciplines each month to discuss emerging themes in the humanities and social sciences. Each session is hosted in turn by one of the partner laboratories and can be attended in person or remotely.
Networking seminar
Interdisciplinary PhD Seminar (amU Doctoral College) Network Analysis and Applications: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Network analysis is becoming increasingly widespread across all social science disciplines (sociology, economics, history, archaeology, geography, management, political science, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, ethology, etc.). Networks also feature in research in mathematics (graph theory), biology (epidemiology, neural networks, etc.), physics, computer science, and the study of complex systems…
This seminar will present the contributions of network analysis across various disciplines, highlighting their commonalities and distinctive features, based on empirical research.
Seminar 3t – Work, Temporality, Technique
This seminar examines work in its various synchronic dimensions (activity and the work itself), diachronic dimensions (becoming, creation and collective action) and heterochronic dimensions (literally ‘another time’, temporal shifts and gaps signifying desynchronised temporalities¹). In this sense, it will aim to link work closely to the question of temporality – working hours, but also work in the making, particularly the redefinitions of the division between employment and labour – as well as to the question of technology, the origins and composition of which have, ultimately, been less studied by the social sciences.
MORNING Seminar – Managing & Assessing the Transition Innovation Network
Reflection cycle focused on the sensible life and the various ontologies, exploring a range of perspectives that go beyond the dominant theoretical frameworks.
This series aims to explore how different forms of life – whether human, non-human or even material – are perceived, experienced and intertwined. We wish to highlight practices and ideas drawn from art, literature, the social sciences and other disciplines, in order to rethink the way in which organisations and living beings coexist and interact to shape the world.
The aim is to encourage in-depth reflection on our understanding of the world and our interactions with it, whilst paving the way for new ontological perspectives that respect the diversity of living and non-living beings. We also seek to to broaden our methodological horizons through artistic, participatory and research-based creative methods.
TREC Seminar – Territories, Regulations, Experiments and Cooperation
Territorial cooperation initiatives are currently developing across many sectors and provide a prime forum for experimentation and social innovation. They most often take the form of partnerships bringing together public actors (local elected representatives, regional officials, etc.) and private-sector actors (both for-profit and from the social and solidarity economy), as well as service users, based on a principle of «co-construction» that is very much in vogue in the discourse of its proponents.
LEST-LEMNA Programme – Collective action and its mechanisms
Collective action takes many forms: organisations, associations, businesses, networks, local areas and even temporary projects. Despite this diversity, it is always underpinned by coordination mechanisms, rules and systems that enable these groups to take action.
This series of seminars brings together researchers interested in the processes by which collective action emerges, takes shape and transforms. In particular, it explores how collectives construct, transform and renew their rules of action in the face of contemporary organisational challenges.
T&C Seminar – Territories & Commons
In the face of contemporary economic, social and environmental changes, numerous initiatives are re-examining forms of collective organisation, governance structures and the use of resources. This seminar explores the concepts of territories and common as frameworks for analysis and action, examining their complementarities, tensions and implications for contemporary societies.
With a distinctly multidisciplinary approach, it brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to explore themes such as mobility, territorial development, public policy, social and organisational innovation, and new forms of cooperation and collective governance.
MIG TRAV Seminar
In 2015, the ongoing seminar series «Migration and Work» was launched at LEST, based on an original idea by Fréderic Décosse, Mustapha El Miri and Delphine Mercier. Drawing on the ANR FABRICAMIG.SA research programme and research carried out by sociologists specialising in labour issues on migration and access to the labour market, the seminar drew up its roadmap.
UtoPi Seminar
Utopias and unexpected possibilities
This seminar explores the ways in which individuals and groups imagine, experiment with and build desirable futures in contexts that are sometimes unexpected. Drawing on field research in the social sciences, it examines the concrete utopias, the forms of hope, empowerment and social innovation that are emerging in areas that are often overlooked or under-researched.
By bringing together theoretical reflections, research methods and empirical studies, he examines the ways in which the social sciences can identify and analyse these «possibilities» that contribute to transformations in social life.
CIT Seminar – Creativity, Innovation, Work (2021–2024)
T&N Seminar – Work & Digital Technology (2018–2020)
The LEST’s «Work and Digital Technology» seminar examines the development of technological trends in the digital sector and their implications for work, organisations and those involved. The questions we are asking here centre on how digital technologies are disrupting the world of work and challenging management practices, whilst opening up new opportunities for organisations that know how to capitalise on them. How are these technologies changing work at both an individual and collective level? How are individuals and organisations coping with these transformations, which may either undermine or strengthen individual skills and career paths as well as collective capabilities?
