Round Tables > Social Responsibility of Research

Friday, September 24th, 11:15am-1:15pm

Centre de Colloques, room 5

Organization : Emmanuelle Perez-Tisserant (FRAMESPA – Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès), Romy Sanchez (IRHiS – Université de Lille)

Speakers : Linda Boukhris (Université Panthéon Sorbonne/IREST), Muriel Cohen (Université du Mans), Elsa Devienne (Université de Northumbria), Fabrice Langrognet (Université d’Oxford, Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains (Paris 1-CNRS)) et Serge Ollivier (Laboratoire Mondes Américains)

Presentation : The Covid-19 crisis has underlined the importance of the humanities and social sciences in addition to the so-called hard sciences to think and act, especially in time of crisis. The COVIDAM blog, animated by IdA and UMI Iglobles, highlighted Americanist researchers’ analyses, at the intersection of long-term work and the capture of a multi-faceted event, on different scales and within more or less long-term processes. This workshop is a follow-up to a first workshop organized during the 2019 Congress. It is about pursuing the reflection on the way in which the researchers, especially Americanists, want to imagine and defend an ethic and a responsibility of research. The first workshop permitted to highlight the question of research paths in articulation with strong constraints affecting resources and positions. We have also drawn attention to the power relations that are exercised within the profession and which invite us to think about the articulation between the practices in the work environment and theoretical, political and ethic approaches in research. Then, we have thought about our responsibilities towards our study fields.

The time elapsed since the 2019 Congress shows that these questions remain crucial. In 2021 the theme of this workshop will focus on two main subjects: research in the context of ecological transition ; Americanists and the logic of urban transition and gentrification : as a field and place of work (based on the example of Northern Paris and the Campus Condorcet, where the Congress is held along with the offices of the IdA and the laboratories and americanist institutions) 

With the support of FRAMESPA UMR 5136