SEF Symposium – Plural Ethnographies #10 – Science and the Meaning of Models
The SEF Symposium “Plural Ethnographies #10: Science and Meaning of Models in the Humanities and Social Sciences” will be held in person and online on June 28 and 29 at the University of Montpellier.
For its tenth edition, the “Ethnographies plurielles” series of conferences aims to examine the use of models in the humanities and social sciences. In science, a model seems to aspire to describe its subject as accurately as possible, while at the same time representing it in a partial or transformed manner for the purposes of manipulation (both intellectual and physical). The flexibility of the term “model” supports a disciplinary approach to and use of a concept that is also an activity (descriptive or analogical). This conference therefore invites participants to explore and question the processes of modeling and modalization of social and human processes by encouraging them to move beyond a purely logical-mathematical perspective and to examine the processes and actors involved in modeling and modalization.