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FRENCH NATURES : A conference-festival at New York University. October 26-27, 2018&#160;Each culture maps its understanding of the physical world (nature, physis) in different ways. This conference-festival  thus asks: what do French and Francophone literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy make of our planet? How can they help us understand our world marked by environmental catastrophe?&#160;More information : http://frenchnatures.org/&#160;&#160;PROGRAMFriday October 26 (La Maison Française, Washington Mews)&#160;9.30: Opening WordsFrédérique Aït-Touati and Phillip John Usher (conference organizers)Sarah Kay (Professor and Chair of French Literature, Thought and Culture, and Director of the NYU Center for French Language and Cultures)Carolyn Dinshaw (Silver Professor; Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English; NYU Dean for Humanities)10.00-11.15: Our Troubled PlanetThe World on FirePeggy McCracken (University of Michigan)Dialectics of MeteorsFrédéric Neyrat (University of Wisconsin-Madison)11.15-11.30: Break11.30-1.15: Smokiness and LightnessVisalizing the Nature of Northern French Smokestacks from Dubigny to PissarroDaniel Finch-Race (Bristol University)The Unbearable Lightness of EcologyPauline Goul (Vassar College)1.15-2.30: Break2.30-4.15: Fields and BeachesBeing on Earth, or The Cosmic AgricultureEmanuele Coccia (EHESS)Queer Ecology and the Modernist BeachHannah Freed-Thall (NYU)4.15-4.45: Break4.45-5.45: Pamela H. Smith, Making and Knowing: Material Imaginaries of the Early Modern (Columbia)7.30: Bruno Latour, US-première of Inside (A ticket must be purchased for this. Details will be posted here soon.)&#160;Saturday October 27 (La Maison Française, Washington Mews)&#160;9.30-10.00: Reading of Olivier Kemeid’s Aeneid. Directed by Judy Miller (NYU) and Rachel Watson (NYU)10.00-10.15: Break10.15-11.45: Theatrical Natures Roundtable. Featuring: Frédérique Aït-Touati (EHESS, CNRS, Sciences Po), Una Chaudhuri (NYU), Sarah Cameron Sunde (director, New York). Chaired by: Judy Miller (NYU)12.00-1.00: Outing to Earth Room with Robin Joyce. The Earth Roomhas been open to the public (for free) since 1980 (Details and directions  here).1.45-3.15: Territories (1)Le Jardin des plantesEugène Nicole (NYU)Theological-Political Arborescences: Louis Dorléans’s La plante humaineRose Gardner (Columbia University)3.15-3.30: Break3.30-4.45: Territories (2)Wild Diplomacy. Cohabiting With the Others Among UsBaptiste Morizot (Université Aix-Marseille)On the ExterraneanPhillip John Usher (NYU)4.45-5.15: Break5.15-7.00: Future Perspectives for Cohabitation on the EarthFrench Zoopoetics: Animals at the Intersection of Nature, Language, and EthicsAnne Simon (EHESS-CRAL)Ferality in the Arts: Visualizing the Next NatureBénédicte RamadeReading Ecologically with Posthuman CulturesStéphanie Posthumus (McGill University)&#160;&#160;