Scientific events

Pragmapolis internal seminar (2025/2026)

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 (12pm-3pm, Salle du Conseil):

12pm-1pm: Back-to-school lab meeting

1pm-3pm: Laboratory seminar: Juliette Duléry: Engaging in the anti-gender movement in Taiwan: "abnormal country" and transnational right-wing conservatism

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 (12pm-3pm, Salle du Conseil): Swad Bruneel and Sam Ducourant: presentation of research conducted as part of the HACAB project

Wednesday, January 7, 2026 (12pm-3pm, Salle du Conseil): Antoine Aubert: "Savoirs et engagements au PTB au prisme d'une histoire sociale des marxismes"; and Lili Soussoko: "Une médecine politique. Ethnographie de l'organisation Médecine pour le Peuple et de ses liens avec le PTB"

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 (1-3pm, Salle du Conseil):

12pm-1pm: Laboratory meeting

1pm-3pm: Laboratory seminar: Tam Blondiau: "Lutter contre l'artificialisation des sols : le cas des collectifs d'habitant-es dans la province de Liège" (Fighting against soil artificialisation: the case of residents' collectives in the province of Liège)

Wednesday March 4, 2026 (1-3pm, Salle du Conseil): Alison Diec: "From constraints to agency: new forms of presence and visibility for Chinese communities"

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (1-3pm, Salle du Conseil): Théophile Busto: "Gérer la forêt ardennaise en temps de crise écologique: une plongée auprès des forestiers de la Semois" (Managing the Ardennes forest in a time of ecological crisis: an in-depth look at the Semois foresters)

Wednesday June 3, 2026 (1pm-3pm, Salle du Conseil) : Alix Fournier: "When protocols falter. Exploring the professional worlds of gender transition medicine in French-speaking Belgium"

 

PragmApolis internal seminar / 2024-2025

Research seminar

Wednesday, october 2, 2024: Christophe Lejeune

Wednesday, November 6, 2024: Sebastian Carbonell

Wednesday, December 4, 2024: Luce Lebrun

Wednesday, January 8, 2025: Arthur Guichoux

Wednesday, February 5, 2025: Thomas Goffard

Wednesday, March 5, 2025: Camille Maes

Wednesday, April 2, 2025: Lola Tribout

Wednesday, June 4, 2025: Mathias Delmeire

Wednesday, June 18, 2025: Marianne Le Gagneur

Laboratory meetings

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Wednesday May 21, 2025

 

Whiteness Cycle / 2024-2025

Reading groups

• Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 2pm-4pm, 1.48: The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
• Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 2pm-4pm, 1.48: Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
  
• Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 2pm-4pm, 1.48: Brexit, Trump and 'methodological whiteness'by Gurminder K. Bhambra
  
• Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 2pm-4pm, 1.48: Poor white boyby Sylvie Laurent
  

Seminars with guests:

• Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 5pm-8pm (venue to be confirmed): White privilege (guests to be confirmed),
• Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 5 pm to 8 pm (venue to be confirmed): White vulnerability (guests to be confirmed)

To find out more

Reading workshop: "Back to work!"

• march 4, 2pm. Room 1.48. Marianne Le Gagneur, text to be determined.

• april 8, 2pm. Seminar room 11. Arthur Guichoux. Text: Karel Yon, "Politiser le travail ou l'entreprise? Trois registres de citoyenneté industrielle", Sociologie du travail [En ligne], Vol. 64 - n° 4 | October-December 2022, online December 01, 2022, accessed January 22, 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/sdt/42310 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/sdt.42310

• may 6, 2pm. Seminar room 11. Eric Florence, a chapter from Border as Method, Or, the Multiplication of Labor

 

Past events:

Lasc pragmapolis seminar around F. Keck's visit to Liège

Tuesday May 14, 2 pm to 4 pm

Anthropocene and new epistemological regime(s)

Seminar organized under the aegis of CRIS and PragmApolis throughout the 23-24 academic year:

• monday october 2, 23
• tuesday, February 27, 24
• tuesday April 16, 24

Find out more 

 

PragmApolis internal seminar / 2023-2024 :

The 2023-2024 seminar will be devoted to the presentation of research work carried out by PragmApolis members, or to a brainstorming session on texts relating to their research.

• Wednesday September 13 (12pm-2pm ): "Le travail sociologique" Howard Becker: reading by Manuel Cerveza-Marzel
• Wednesday October 4 (12h-14h) : presentation of dissertations
• Wednesday November 8 (12h-14h) : presentation of Charline Jamar's work
• Wednesday December 6 (12h-14h) : presentation by Sébastien Fontaine and Bruno Frère
• Wednesday January 10 (12h-14h) : a reading by Maryline El Khoury
• Wednesday, February 7 (12pm-2pm) : a reading by Manoée Thiry
• Wednesday, March 6 (12h-14h) : a reading proposed by Eric Florence
• Wednesday April 3 (12h-14h) : presentation of trainees' work
• Wednesday May 8 (12pm-2pm ): a reading by Marie Schnitzler
• Tuesday June 4 (11am-1pm, room 3.42): presentation of work by Kai Heidemann (polycrisis of democracy)

 

PragmApolis internal seminar / 2022-2023 :

The 2023-2024 seminar featured presentations by international researchers whose work resonates with PragmApolis' thematic areas of research.

june 7, 2023: Anne-Catherine Wagner, "Les coopérer - Les scops et la fabrique de l'intérêt collectif"

may 10, 2023: Jorge Munoz, "Quand les corps retracent les conditions de travail: le cas des irradiés de l'Ile Longue de Brest" (When bodies retrace working conditions: the case of the irradiated workers at Brest's Ile Longue)

april 5, 2023: Kai Heidemann, sociologist specializing in continuing education and social movements

march 24, 2023: Yves Sintomer and Laurent Jeanpierre: "Democracy in the 21st century"

february 22, 2023 :EricDacheux, Défaire le capitalisme, refaire la démocratie.

february 15, 2023: Mona Claro and Elsa Mescoli welcome Ann Morning, ClaireCosquer, SolèneBrun, SarahMazouz and MarcoMartiniello to talk about race and intersectionality in the social sciences

january 18, 2023: Bruno Frère presents La Fabrique de l'émancipation , followed by a discussion with Luc Boltanski, Sandra Laugier, Albert Ogien and Philippe Corcuff.

january 11, 2023: Laurent Jeanpierre : Discussion of his book La perspective du possible

december 7, 2022: Patrick Italiano: Homelessness, understanding and counting

november 9, 2022: Eric Dacheux : Presentation of the sociologist's book Défaire le capitalisme, refaire la démocratie (event cancelled due to strike. To be rescheduled)

 

november 15, 2022: Youri Lou Vertongen: (In partnership with CEDEM) Les mobilisations et la solidarité avec les sans-papiers.

september 28, 2022: François Mélard: Des savoirs situés aux sciences situées : Les pratiques de l'institut écocitoyen pour la connaissance des pollutions dans le Golf de Fos (France).

PragmApolis internal seminar:

september 21, 2022: Presentation of the Belgian Online Panel by Sébastien Fontaine (PragmApolis, Uliège)

 

PragmApolis internal seminar / 2021-2022 :

The 2023-2024 seminar aimed to discuss reflexivity in research through discussions with international researchers invited for the occasion.

• wednesday June 8, 2022: Discussion with Paul Blokker on public sociology and a populist sociology
• wednesday May 18, 2022: Internal seminar for PragmApolis trainees
• wednesday April 27, 2022: Seminar and discussion on the pro-life movement in Belgium
• monday March 21, 2022: Lecture by Joan Scott

wednesday March 16, 2022 : Discussion with Yves Sintomer on issues of participatory democracy

• wednesday February 23, 2022 : Sandra Laugier (event cancelled - to be rescheduled)
• wednesdayJanuary 19, 2022: Réjane Sénac on Fluid Radicalities

• wednesday December 8, 2022: Martin Deleixhe "On the possibility of a European people"

• november 10, 2021: Florence Caeymaex (ULiège)on Isabelle Stengers and Donna Harraway
• october 14 and 15, 2021: Le populisme de gauche. History, theory and practice(International colloquium)
• october 13, 2021 (2:00 pm to 5:00 pm): PragmApolis Seminar: Presentation byEdouard Delruelle (ULiège) of his book Philosophie de l'Etat social. Civilité et dissensus au 21e siècle (2020); (in-house seminar).