REPI (Research and Studies in International Politics) announces the programme for its REVIP (Bringing Politics to Life) seminar series.

Each session will feature a guest speaker who will draw on their research or professional experience. The seminar aims to open up the following avenues for reflection at the end of each presentation. How is the living governed? What social position does the living occupy in these modes of governance? How can we study the political relations of the living by moving from human politics to the politics of the living? What do the controversies surrounding these modes of governance reveal about the political construction of the living?

Virgine Arantes (REPI East), Eric Fabri (CTP), Quentin Hiernaux (PHI), Krystel Wanneau (CREDA (UMR 7227), REPI), Christophe Wasinski (REPI), Allan Wei (IITSE)

All sessions take place on Wednesdays from 12 noon to 2 pm.

Registration in person (sandwiches provided) or online via the link that will be posted on the page dedicated to each event.

Programme:

• 15 April 2026 (in person and online): PlantCoopLab: working with plants – ethical and political issues. Sylvie Pouteau (INRAE - UMR SADAPT)

• 25 March 2026 (online): Sensitive approaches to understanding relationships with waterways. The case of the Lapic socio-cultural atlas. Klervi Fustec (AMURE - UMR 6308)

• 18 March 2025 (in person and online): Crop Diversity as a Threat: Life and Death in a Potato Genebank. Helen Anne Curry (Prof. in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech., PI of the project From collection to cultivation U. of Cambridge)

• 11 February 2026 (in person and online): Thinking about transitions in times of ecological crisis: the case of antibiotics in industrial livestock farming. Nicolas Fortané (Researcher, sociologist, INRA - IRISSO, PSL, CNRS, INRA, Paris Dauphine University) and Henri Boullier (CNRS Researcher, PSL University, IRISSO)

More information: here