Gerpisa monthly seminar

The seminar series of GERPISA 2018-2019 days, in association with the Armand Peugeot Chair (Centrale Supelec), closes the international research programme on the "new frontiers" of the automotive and mobility industry: electric and autonomous vehicles, digital and big data cars, factories of the future, car sharing and carpooling... which are the pioneers who are shaping these new production, consumption and innovation territories? What transformations are they triggering and promoting? What are their implications for current trends and balances in automotive systems and industries? And how do these transformations affect work and employment?

The eight sessions will aim to provide elements of historical and prospective reflection, rooted in empirical research, to understand the considerable (r)evolutions that the automotive industry and practices are undergoing.

- Through political decisions, market pressures or to overcome the impasses of technological solutions forcing the trade-off between polluting emissions and greenhouse gases, the electric vehicle (EV) seems to have become the new essential paradigm for industry and public policies related to the automobile. Three original approaches will shed light on the debate: the argument in favour of regulatory and fiscal, incentive and coercive tools,without which a voluntary switchover of sales and ultimately of the fleet towards electrification would not be achieved (Ch. Berggren - 11 octobre 2018); the challenges of the massification of production of electric vehicles on manufacturing, the value chain, and the competitiveness of manufacturers (M. Alochet - 1 February 2019) ; the technological, economic, and environmental obstacles posed by this massification and the diversification of desirable industrial and political choices that would result from it (D. Bloch - 10 May 2019).

- The evolution of supply chains and their impacts on employment and production systems both globally and in France, the way in which public authorities can intervene during their restructuring phases, are essential fields of investigation to be understood with the depth of the geographical comparison (C. Serfati and C. Sauviat - 7 December 2018) or history (A. Milor - 9 November 2018) to better understand the issue of the resilience of equipment manufacturers, increasingly important players in the automotive industry.

- Work, production organization, manufacturing technologies also seem to be facing a paradigm shift with the emergence of the smart factory and its many variations (China 2025, Industry 4.0, digitization... This theme will be addressed during a (conference day - 11 January 2019).

- Finally, the question of new car uses and new business models for mobility will be addressed under the prism of carpooling in rural and peri-urban areas or the (temporary?) failure of car-sharing services in cities (speaker to be confirmed - 15 March 2019).

These themes will naturally be addressed during the GERPISA annual academic conference to be held at the ENS Paris Saclay (in Cachan), from 11 to 14 June 2019.
http://gerpisa.org/node/5132

A "young researchers" day will be organized with our colleagues from the Armand Peugeot Chair (Centrale Supélec).
The GERPISA days are supported by the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris Saclay (MSH)

More details on schedules and locations on associated links.

Participation is open but please register or contact us in advance.
Registration and updated program (rooms, schedules) on http://gerpisa.org/journees

Organizers
Géry Deffontaines - gery.deffontaines@ens-cachan.fr
Tommaso Pardi - tommaso.pardi@ens-cachan.fr

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