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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
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SUMMARY:Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>PLEASE NOTE: Due to inclement weather, this event will be held online only over Zoom. </strong><a href="https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q_yEPl5pTe6Q9yl0XecMyQ#/registration"><strong>Please register</strong></a><strong> in order to attend the event virtually.</strong></p><hr><h2>Citizen Science at Large: New Trends in Participatory Knowledge Production in France</h2><h3>Speaker</h3><ul><li>Florian Charvolin, Senior Researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research.</li></ul><h3>Chair</h3><ul><li><span>Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies; Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy, Committee on Degrees in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.</span></li></ul><h3>Contact</h3><p><strong>Henry Austin</strong><br><a href="mailto:henryaustin@hks.harvard.edu">henryaustin@hks.harvard.edu</a></p><h3>Abstract</h3><p>Participatory research in France takes two forms. On the one hand, protocols of biodiversity sciences, managed by laboratories or professional research associations, involve a network of lay observers to monitor the evolution of species on French territory. On the other hand, inquiries led by socially marginalized groups, such as homeless or mentally affected people, engage with social scientists to help them fight epistemic injustice, that is, the exclusion of their experiential knowledge from policy. As yet, there has been no systematic comparison of these initiatives of participatory knowledge production across biodiversity, health, and social domains. There is, however, a recent effort to develop a common framework which attempts to investigate the transformative effect of citizen sciences on laypeople and scientists, as well as the material turn of participatory research. This effort raises, in particular, the issue of equal empowerment of contributors as well as participants' reliance on face to face interactions and/or communication at a distance. I will present this common ground as gathered in an edited book to be published in 2026 in France.</p><h3>Bio</h3><p>Florian Charvolin is a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Centre Max Weber, Lyons. He is working on the sociology of citizen measurements of biodiversity and air pollution. A recent publication in English is Lorna Heaton and FlorianCharvolin (eds.), <em>Digital Participatory Biodiversity Science</em> (Routledge, 2026). He is interested in the connections between citizen sciences and community-based research on environmental issues in contemporary France and the social history of air pollution metrology from the 1950s to now.</p>
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