[ATHENA] Journée doctorale "Governing the nuclear order" 13 juin Paris Descartes

[Maël Goumri <mael.goumri AT gmail.com>]

Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à la journée doctorale du programme France-Stanford qui se tiendra le mercredi 13 juin à l'Université Paris Descartes sur le thème du gouvernement de l'énergie nucléaire. Cette journée doctorale fait suite à la conférence "Revisiting the nuclear order" des 11 et 12 juin (http://www.cermes3.cnrs.fr/fr/production-scientifique/conferences/conferences-2018/690-revisting-the-nuclear-order-technopolitical-landscapes-and-timescapes). Elle a pour but de présenter des travaux en cours sur l'énergie nucléaire et de permettre une discussion entre chercheurs confirmés et étudiants en Master ou thèse, qu'ils fassent ou non partie du programme.

Vous trouverez ci-dessous et en pièce jointe l'argumentaire, le programme ainsi que l'ensemble des informations pratiques. L'entrée est libre et sans inscription préalable. Je reste néanmoins à votre entière disposition par mail pour toute information complémentaire.

En espérant vous y retrouver nombreux, bien à vous,

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Maël Goumri

Doctorant en Sociologie des sciences

Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire - Laboratoire SHS

Université Paris Descartes - Cermes3

mael.goumri AT gmail.com

Presentation :

This graduate workshop is following the “Revisiting the Nuclear Order” conference. It is a part of a bilateral France/United States research project funded by the Partner University Fund for a period of 3 years (2016-2019). It aims to delve into the various governance forms across time and space of nuclear civil energy. The atom destruction potential shaped the representations that the population may have of nuclear energy. The post WWII fear of atoms led to a major strategy of “education of desire” of populations to spread this energy which was supposed to bring development and welfare to the world. It also framed ways to comprehend the severe accidents and put the attention of experts on the chain reaction management and technical reliability more than on the systemic sources of accidents. Even if nuclear disaster management has been framed by international organizations like the IAEA or Euratom, the governance of nuclear disaster also depends very much on national contexts.

This workshop will present ongoing works on nuclear energy management by exploring particularly the practices (and their circulation at a global scale), the actors and the institutions involved in this governance. The various backgrounds of our speakers will permit an international comparison, particularly between France, the US and Japan. It will also question the “exceptionalism” of nuclear energy governance and delve into its materiality. This session aims to examine not only how the energy is governed but also how their opposition and controversies are managed at a local, national and global level.

Location: Paris Descartes University – 45 rue des Saints-Pères – 75006 Paris

(Metro line 4 "Saint-Germain-des-Prés" or line 10 "Mabillon" or line 12 "Sèves Babylone")

Room J536, “bâtiment Jacob” 5^th floor

Provisional schedule:

14:00 Opening (by Soraya Boudia, Professor at Université Paris Descartes – Cermes3)

 

14:05-15:50 - Session 1: Planning the nuclear energy development In France and Japan

 

Jonathan Lear - PhD Candidate, Stanford University:

The Present Past of Japanese Atomic Power: Backwardness and its Historical Context

 

Thomas Ashforth - MA Student, Stanford University:

Nuclear propaganda in select regional newspapers in Japan: A snapshot analysis of 1986 and 2010

 

Claire Le Renard - PhD Candidate, LISIS, LinX, EDF R&D:

Re-opening and reframing the French fast breeder reactor in the 1990s: “democracy has caught up with technology at last”?

 

15:20-15:50: General discussion introduced by Angela Creager, Professor at Princeton University

 

15:50-16:05: Coffee break

 

16:05- 17:50 - Session 2: Governing nuclear safety – avoiding and managing disasters

 

Mathias Roger – PhD Candidate, IRSN, Université Paris Descartes, Cermes3

Earth sciences serving the atom? The role of Jean Pierre Rothé, scientific entrepreneur (1945-1976)

 

Maël Goumri – PhD Candidate, IRSN, Université Paris Descartes, Cermes3

Making accidents hypothetical: Genealogy and appropriation of tools for nuclear safety in France during the 1970s

 

Valerie Arnhold – PhD Candidate, Sciences Po Paris, CSO

The ordinary apocalypse. The normalization of the Fukushima nuclear accident by nuclear safety organizations

 

17:20-17:50: General discussion introduced by Francis Chateauraynaud, (Professor, at EHESS, GSPR)

 

17:50-18:00: Conclusion

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