Bruno Latour

Co-organised with the LSE European Institute, Sciences Po Paris, Forum for European Philosophy, French Embassy: 2008 Franco – British Europe dialogue series

6.30-8pm | Monday 4 February 2008
Old Theatre, LSE

Speaker
Bruno Latour, philosopher and a sociologist, currently Vice – President for Research of Sciences Po

Chair
Nikolas Rose, Director, BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at LSE

A rival of Durkheim, Gabriel Tarde was right to argue that the subject-matter of sociology is not society but connections. The understanding of the social cannot be separated from the study of other associations like biological organisms or even atoms.