The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction and Ethics for the Anthropocene
Héritages d’Ursula Le Guin : Science, fiction et éthique pour l’Anthropocène
Paris · June 18-21, 2019
Guest speakers / conférences plénières
Julie Phillips (Biographer of Le Guin)
Brian Attebery (Idaho State University, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts)
Isabelle Stengers (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Cet événement est rendu possible grâce au soutien de / This event is sponsored by : Chaire Arts & Sciences / École Polytechnique / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (EA 4398 PRISMES / Groupe 19-21 Modernités critiques; Commission de la Recherche; Direction des Affaires Internationales).
TUESDAY JUNE 18
20:30 · Projection of documentary Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Arwen Curry, 2018)
Cinéma Le Grand Action
5 rue des Écoles, Paris. Metro: Cardinal Lemoine / Jussieu
Admission 9,50 €. The projection is free for all presenters.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 19
Institut du monde anglophone (Grand amphithéâtre)
5 rue de l’École de médecine, Paris. Metro: Odéon
9:45 · Word of welcome
10:00 – 12:00 · Panel 1 · Anthropocene
Chessa Adsit-Morris & Noel Gough (University of California, Santa Cruz) · Post-Anthropocene Imaginings: Co-creating Imaginative Methodological Practices for Unnamed Epochs to Come
Brad Tabas (ENSTA Bretagne) · In the Dark that Nourishes. A Dark Guide to Dark Times: Ursula Le Guin and Ethics in the Anthropocene
Kim Hendricks (Flemish Research Foundation / KU Leuven) · Activating the Present: Imagination, Science Fiction and Resistance
Supriya Baijal (Dayalbagh Educational Institute – Deemed University) · Negotiating ‘Power’ and ‘Balance’ in A Wizard of Earthsea (1968): An Eco-Critical Study
12:00 – 13:30 · Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 · Panel 2 · Worlds, Bonds, Beings
Eli Lee (Minor Literature[s]) · “Another Way to Be” – Navigating the Possibility of Eco-Utopia in Always Coming Home
Katie Stone (Birkbeck, University of London) · The Ethics of Time Travel in the Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
Francis Gene-Rowe (Royal Holloway, University of London) · The Language of the Dusk: Finding Equilibrium in an Ending World
15:00 – 15:30 · Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 · Panel 3 · Indigeneity
Arwen Spicer (Clark College) · Indigeneity and Utopia in Le Guin’s Ekumen
Miranda Iossifidis & Lisa Garforth (Newcastle University) · Reading Le Guin: Ethnographic Figures and Speculative Sociologies
Stefan Schustereder (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) · A Cruel Mirror in Space? A Postcolonial Reading of Ursula LeGuin’s The Word for World is Forest
17:00 – 17:15 · Coffee break
17:15 – 17:45 · Keynote 1
Julie Phillips (Biographer of Le Guin) · Love and Language: Ursula K. Le Guin in Paris
17:45 – 19:00 · Cocktail
THURSDAY JUNE 20
11:00 – 12:00 · Panel 4 · New Epistemologies
David Creuze (Université de Lille) · Coming Back Home from the Abyss: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Yin Utopianism
Liesl King (York St John University) · Moving Slowly with Le Guin – A Philosophy for Survival
12:00 – 13:00 · Keynote 2
Brian Attebery (Idaho State University, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts) · Always Coming Home, the Library of America, and the Hinge in Le Guin’s Career
13:00 – 14:30 · Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 · Panel 5 · Stages of Life
Patrycja Kurjatto Renard (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale) · Redefinition of Human Family Paradigm in Selected Texts of the Hainish Cycle
Joanna Gilar (University of Chichester / fabularosa.co.uk) · The Transformative Recovery of Death in Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Fantasy and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
Meghann Cassidy (École Polytechnique) · Subjectivity and Childhood in The Earthsea Quartet
16:30 – 18:00 · Panel 6 · Utopia
Dennis Wilson Wise (University of Arizona) · Unrealizable Ambiguous Utopias: Reading The Dispossessed through Leo Strauss and Plato
Joshua Abraham Kopin (University of Texas at Austin) · Fragile, Makeshift, Improbable: Le Guin’s Anarchisms of Fidelity
Justin Cosner (University of Iowa) · Revolutionary Rhetoric: “Effective Dreams” and Utopic Potentialities in Ursula Le Guin’s Lathe of Heaven
20:00 · Conference dinner
FRIDAY JUNE 21
10:30 – 12:30 Panel 7 · Translation / transmission
Stephanie Burt (Harvard University) · Le Guin’s mutants, Le Guin’s gods: X-Men comics, The Lathe of Heaven, and the paradoxical essence of a superhero story
Maria Skakuj-Puri (Independent scholar and translator) · Translating Ursula K. le Guin in Communist Poland: Stanisław Barańczak and A Wizard of Earthsea
Emily York (James Madison University) · Le Guin in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Pedagogies
Diégo Antolinos-Basso & Damien A. Bright (Sciences Po / University of Chicago) · Neither Heroism nor Tragedy. Learning to Make Way for New Correspondences between Science and its Questions through Ursula Le Guin’s Writings on Writing
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 · Panel 8 · Fiction-panier
Noémie Moutel (Université de Caen) · Sur, un récit écoféministe pour l’Anthropocène
Éliane Beaufils (Université Paris 8 – Vincennes Saint-Denis) · Des fictions-paniers aux non-héros contemporains
15:00 – 15:15 · Coffee break
15:15 – 16:15 · Panel 9 · Hors la maison du maître
Quentin Dubois (Université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès) · Ursula Le Guin : une besace chaosmotique dans le Jupiter Space
Thierry Drumm (Université Libre de Bruxelles) · Raconter d’autres histoires avec Ursula K. Le Guin
16:15 – 16:30 · Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 · Keynote 3
Isabelle Stengers (Université Libre de Bruxelles) · Penser sur le mode SF
