**English version below**
Héritages d'Ursula Le Guin. Science, fiction et éthique pour l'Anthropocène,
Paris du 18 au 21 juin 2019.
Le programme est disponible ici : https://litorg.hypotheses.org/le-guin-2019
* Conference The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin. Science, Fiction and Ethics for the Anthropocene,
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)
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 (Deemed University) · Negotiating ‘Power’ and ‘Balance’ in A Wizard of Earthsea (1968): An Eco-Critical Study
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
14:30 – 16:00 · Panel 5 · Stages of Life
Patrycja Kurjatto Renard (University of Tours) · 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 – 17:30 · Panel 6 · Utopia 1
Sarah Lohmann (Durham University) · Complexity and the Radical Systemic Utopianism of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
Dennis Wilson Wise (University of Arizona) · Unrealizable Ambiguous Utopias: Reading The Dispossessed through Leo Strauss and Plato
17:30 – 17:45 · Coffee break
17:45 – 18:45 · Panel 7 · Utopia 2
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
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
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).