The Humanities and Social Sciences and the Science-Society Program at the Pasteur Institute: From the SHS Alliance-Afrique Network to Science Fiction

How does the Pasteur Institute integrate the humanities and social sciences into its network? And what role does the science-society interface play?

In this session, three researchers from the Pasteur Institute will discuss their career paths and the various initiatives they have undertaken throughout their careers.

Cyrine Bouabid is a biologist who has been interested in the social sciences since her dissertation. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar and co-coordinates the Alliance SHS Afrique project. She co-founded the SHS network of the Pasteur Network of African Institutes.

Meriem Belghith is an immunologist at the Pasteur Institute in Tunis; she coordinates the Tunis Science Shop.

François Bontems is a researcher in structural biology whose work focuses on the relationship between science and society and on how science fiction can be used to explore these relationships.
In this session, the Alliance SHS Afrique project—which aims to improve the capacity to respond to epidemic crises through the humanities and social sciences—will be presented. This project has led to the development of a MOOC on the social dimensions of epidemics and toolkits for training in qualitative approaches. Recent developments in the relationship between science and society will be explored, and avenues for reflection will be raised, as will the contribution of science fiction to fostering a science-society dialogue.

Events organized as part of theExposUM Institute, with support from MSH-SUD.