Thinking about futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences - Session 2: Projections, simulations, foresight: how to "know" the future? (January 27, 2022)

Cycle of conferences on crises, mutations and anticipations: thinking about futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences (December 2021 to June 2022), organized by the SoMuM Institute

Session 2: Projections, simulations, foresight: how to "know" the future?
January 27, 2022 - 10 am to 12:30 pm

This second session is devoted to the study of anticipation techniques and technologies (modeling, simulation, foresight). What tools and knowledge are available to anticipate possible futures? How do these tools and knowledge shape the object they seek to understand? What is the view on the technological promises of the avalanche of data (Big Data)? Four papers will look at the knowledge and technologies used to "know" the future.

Open to doctoral students (registration on ADUM), researchers and teacher-researchers. This series of conferences is part of the Mediterranean Studies doctoral program of the SoMuM Institute.

Speakers

Isabelle Blöss-Widmer (lecturer in demography at the MESOPOLHIS laboratory and director of DemoMed) will discuss projections in demography.

Bruno Ventelou Paolo Goubert (research director in economics at CNRS and AMSE) will present his work on modeling and long-term forecasting of health expenditures.

Paolo Chevalier (demographer, PhD in urban planning and employee of the company Kisio) will present the use of GPS data and Big Data to model urban mobility.

Anna Goubert (doctoral student at the MESOPOLHIS laboratory and Plan Bleu) will present the "MED 2050" foresight program supported by Plan Bleu, which aims to imagine the possible and desirable futures of the Mediterranean system by 2050.

Full program and registration required

https://somum.hypotheses.org/2185

Keywords

prospective

future in Humanities and Social Sciences