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Mémoire De Titres Et Travaux Curriculum Vitae Bruno Latour Mémoire de titres et travaux Curriculum vitae Bruno Latour (avec résumé des articles et ouvrages, version bilingue français-anglais) (with abstracts of articles and books, French-English version) 65 ans ans, marié, deux enfants adresse personnelle: 5 rue Danton, 75006 PARIS professionnel: 33-01.45.49.77.77 e-mail: [email protected] SITUATION PRÉSENTE PRESENT POSITION Depuis septembre 2006 : professeur des Universités, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Depuis Juin 2012 : responsable du programme Humanités scientifiques et méthodes numériques, Sciences Po. POSTES UNIVERSITAIRES ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1974-1975: Assistant (assistant professor) à la Faculté de Droit d'Abidjan, chargé du cours sur les méthodes en sciences sociales. 1977-1981: Assistant (assistant professor) au Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, met en place et anime, sous la direction de J.-J. Salomon, le Centre Science, Technologie et Société du CNAM; organise le DEA « Science, Technologie et Société”. 1979: Assistant temporaire (visiting assistant professor) à l'Université de Californie à San Diego (UCSD), département de sociologie, trimestre d'automne. 1981: Assistant au département de sociologie à UCSD pour le trimestre de printemps (visiting assistant professor for the spring term). CV-Bruno Latour 2 1981-1982: maître assistant (associate professor) au CNAM. 1982-1991 : maître de recherche (associate professor) au Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. 1983: professeur temporaire (visiting associate professor) à l'Université de Californie, Département de Sociologie, trimestre de printemps. 1988: professeur invité à l'Université de Melbourne pour le trimestre d'hiver (invited professor for the winter term ). 1989-1992: professeur à temps partiel au Science Studies Program de l’Université de Californie à San-Diego (permanent part-time visiting professor at the Science Studies Program UCSD). 1991-2006: professeur de 1° catégorie (Full professor) au Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris 1999-2001: professeur au département de Systèmes d’information de la London School of Economics (Centenial visiting professor at the London School of Economics Department of Information System) 2003-present : professeur occasionnel au département d’Histoire des sciences à l’Université Harvard (occasional part-time visiting professor at the Department of History of Science of Harvard University). De septembre 1982 jusqu’à septembre 2005: chargé du cours « Cartographie des controverses » et du stage ouvrier des élèves de première année de l’Ecole des mines (in charge of the course « Cartography of scientific controversies » and of the one month internship og engineering students in factory floors); De septembre 1987 jusqu’à septembre 2005: responsable du doctorat « Socio- économie de l'innovation » (in charge of the doctorate program ‘socio-economics of innovation’ of the School of Mines). Trente cinq docteurs entre 1987 et 2004 ayant tous des postes en recherche et enseignement en France et à l’étranger (without counting the visitors to the program, between 1987 and 2004 thirty five PhD’s have been trained and have obtained full time research and teaching position in France and abroad). Octobre 2006 (October 2006) professeur invité dans le cadre du département d’anthropologie de l’Université de Chicago (Schaffner professor with the anthropology department, University of Chicago). De mai 2007 à juin 2012 : directeur scientifique de Sciences Po (vice-president for research). Fall 2012, Invited Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, England, for the Fall semester. DIPLOMES NATIONAL DIPLOMAS 1971: CAPES de philosophie, reçu second; épreuves pratiques: mention très bien (French national competitive exam ranked second nationally). 1972: agrégation de philosophie, reçu premier (French national competitive exam, ranked first nationally). 1975: doctorat de troisième cycle (PhD ), « Exégèse et Ontologie », Université de Tours. Version du 14/01/13 CV-Bruno Latour 3 1987: habilitation à la direction des recherches (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) (new French national diploma equivalent to the PhD). EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONNELLE PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1973-1975: Chargé de recherche d'une enquête en sociologie du développement à l'ORSTOM, Sciences Humaines, (temporary researcher for a study on the sociology of development) Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. 1975-1977: Etude de sociologie des sciences dans le laboratoire du Professeur Roger Guillemin, au Salk Institute, à San Diego, Californie (field research in sociology of sciences in a neuroendocrinology laboratory in California); bourse Hay-Fulbrigt, bourse de l'OTAN; bourse spéciale du Salk Institute. 1978-1981: Participe à l'ATP du CNRS « Pasteurisation de la médecine française de 1871 à 1919 » (research in history of science on Pasteur and French society) 1980-1982: consultant à l'OCDE pour les biotechnologies. 1980-1984: membre du Conseil Scientifique (on the scientific board of). de la Fondation Fyssen 1980-1984: fonde et anime le projet éditorial Pandore , assure la parution de 25 numéros du bulletin, supervise la traduction, la production et la diffusion de 5 ouvrages d'histoire et de sociologies des sciences (edits, publishes and circulates 25 issues of the journal Pandore). 1982-présent: enseignement complémentaire dans plusieurs écoles d'ingénieurs; modules de formation sur l'innovation dans l'industrie; développement et suivi d'une méthode d'analyse socio-technique des innovations dans plusieurs groupes industriels publics et privés (socio-technical analysis in private industrial groups; retraining of executives in industry). 1985-1986: cycle de séminaires de sensibilisation aux problèmes de l'innovation dans le groupe Lafarge-Coppée (talks to raise the consciounsness of executives in industry about the mechanism of innovation). 1985-1987: étude pour le Ministère de la Recherche, sur l'histoire sociale des sciences françaises (bibliography for the social history of science and technology in France). 1986: étude pour le Ministère de la Recherche sur la programmation de la recherche en France (avec R. Arvanitis et Michel Callon) (studies on the indicators for French science policy). 1986-1990: dans le cadre du club « Scientifiction », études et travaux pour les éditions Larousse sur la rhétorique scientifique et pour la Cité des Sciences de la Villette sur la visualisation scientifique, rédaction de scénarios et de scénographies scientifiques (scenarios and analysis of scientific video production). 1988: étude socio-technique pour la RATP sur le projet de métro Aramis (socio- technical analysis of a new automated subway system ). 1988-1990: développe le projet Eurométrique-Prendre la Mesure de l’Europe pour un programme Européen de culture scientifique et technique et pour une exposition Version du 14/01/13 CV-Bruno Latour 4 Européenne sur l'histoire, l'économie et la sociologie des normes, des standards et de la métrologie (‘Eurometrics-Sizing Up Europe’ a European project, programme and exhibit on standards and technical culture, initiate, promote and coordinates the project) 1988-1990: étude pour le Ministère de la Recherche pour un simulateur de conduite de projets à l’aide des graphes socio-techniques (studies on a simulator of project management based on socio-technical graphs ). 1989: étude pour le CNRS et le Ministère de l'Environnement sur le relarguage des organismes manipulés génétiquement (study on the release of genetically modified organisms ). 1991: préétude pour le CNRS et le Ministère de l’Environnement de la dynamique des controverses scientifiques dans le bassin Amazonien (study of the dynamic of scientific controversies in the Amazon basin ). 1992-1993: étude pour Usinor-Sacilor de l’organisation des laboratoires de l’IRSID (study of the organization of a steel-industry research laboratory). 1994: étude sur la mise en place de la nouvelle loi sur l’eau pour le compte du Ministère de l’environnement (study for the Environment ministery on the implementation of the new law on water local politics). 1996-1997: étude ethnographique sur le Conseil d’Etat (ethnographic study of the French Supreme Court for administrative law). De 1997 à janvier 1999: Chronique mensuelle ( monthly chronicle) dans la Folhia de Sao Paolo 1997 à mai 2001: Chronique mensuelle « amateurs de sciences » dans la Recherche ( monthly chronicle in the French journal for the populariation of science La Recherche) [rassemblées dans un livre gathered in a book voir see livres-popularisation] 1996-1999: étude sur l’évaluation de projet dans le domaine du transport, projet ERANIT (Ministère du transport, DRASTT) (how to introduce quality control in the management of research in the domain of transportation- Ministry of transportation) ; puis projet PROTEE pour le compte de la DG VII (then Protee project for the DG VII). 1998-2002 : conception, élaboration, fabrication d’une exposition internationale à Karlsruhe en Allemagne (conception, curating, elaboration of an internaional exhibit Iconoclash- Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art, ZKM RFA). 2002-2005: conception, élaboration et fabrication d’une exposition internationale à Karlsruhe, (conception, curating, elaboration of an internaional exhibi) RFA Making Things Public . 2003-2005: Elected President of the 4S –Society for the Social Studies of Science. Printemps 2005 : enseigne à Amsterdam en philosophie dans le cadre de la chaire Spinoza (teaches philosophy
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