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The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction and Ethics for the AnthropoceneHéritages d’Ursula Le Guin : Science, fiction et éthique pour l’Anthropocène&#160;Paris · June 18-21, 2019&#160;Guest speakers / conférences plénièresJulie Phillips (Biographer of Le Guin)Brian Attebery (Idaho State University, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts)Isabelle Stengers (Université Libre de Bruxelles)&#160;Cet événement est rendu possible grâce au soutien de / This event is sponsored by : Chaire Arts &#38; Sciences / École Polytechnique / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (EA 4398 PRISMES / Groupe 19-21 Modernités critiques; Commission de la Recherche; Direction des Affaires Internationales).&#160;TUESDAY JUNE 1820:30 · Projection of documentary Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Arwen Curry, 2018)Cinéma Le Grand Action5 rue des Écoles, Paris. Metro: Cardinal Lemoine / JussieuAdmission 9,50 €. The projection is free for all presenters.&#160;WEDNESDAY JUNE 19Institut du monde anglophone (Grand amphithéâtre)5 rue de l’École de médecine, Paris. Metro: Odéon&#160;9:45 · Word of welcome&#160;10:00 – 12:00 · Panel 1 · AnthropoceneChessa Adsit-Morris &#38; Noel Gough (University of California, Santa Cruz) · Post-Anthropocene Imaginings: Co-creating Imaginative Methodological Practices for Unnamed Epochs to ComeBrad Tabas (ENSTA Bretagne) · In the Dark that Nourishes. A Dark Guide to Dark Times: Ursula Le Guin and Ethics in the AnthropoceneKim Hendricks (Flemish Research Foundation / KU Leuven) · Activating the Present: Imagination, Science Fiction and ResistanceSupriya Baijal (Dayalbagh Educational Institute – Deemed University) · Negotiating ‘Power’ and ‘Balance’ in A Wizard of Earthsea (1968): An Eco-Critical Study&#160;12:00 – 13:30 · Lunch&#160;13:30 – 15:00 · Panel 2 · Worlds, Bonds, BeingsEli Lee (Minor Literature[s]) · “Another Way to Be” – Navigating the Possibility of Eco-Utopia in Always Coming HomeKatie Stone (Birkbeck, University of London) · The Ethics of Time Travel in the Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le GuinFrancis Gene-Rowe (Royal Holloway, University of London) · The Language of the Dusk: Finding Equilibrium in an Ending World&#160;15:00 – 15:30 · Coffee break&#160;15:30 – 17:00 · Panel 3 · IndigeneityArwen Spicer (Clark College) · Indigeneity and Utopia in Le Guin’s Ekumen Miranda Iossifidis &#38; Lisa Garforth (Newcastle University) · Reading Le Guin: Ethnographic Figures and Speculative SociologiesStefan Schustereder (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) · A Cruel Mirror in Space? A Postcolonial Reading of Ursula LeGuin’s The Word for World is Forest&#160;17:00 – 17:15 · Coffee break&#160;17:15 – 17:45 · Keynote 1 Julie Phillips (Biographer of Le Guin) · Love and Language: Ursula K. Le Guin in Paris&#160;17:45 – 19:00 · Cocktail&#160;THURSDAY JUNE 20&#160;11:00 – 12:00 · Panel 4 · New EpistemologiesDavid Creuze (Université de Lille) · Coming Back Home from the Abyss: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Yin UtopianismLiesl King (York St John University) · Moving Slowly with Le Guin – A Philosophy for Survival &#160;12:00 – 13:00 · Keynote 2Brian 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&#160;13:00 – 14:30 · Lunch&#160;14:30 – 16:00 · Panel 5 · Stages of LifePatrycja Kurjatto Renard (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale) · Redefinition of Human Family Paradigm in Selected Texts of the Hainish CycleJoanna 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 MaterialsMeghann Cassidy (École Polytechnique) · Subjectivity and Childhood in The Earthsea Quartet&#160;16:30 – 18:00 · Panel 6 · UtopiaDennis Wilson Wise (University of Arizona) · Unrealizable Ambiguous Utopias: Reading The Dispossessed through Leo Strauss and PlatoJoshua 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&#160;20:00 · Conference dinner&#160;FRIDAY JUNE 21&#160;10:30 – 12:30 Panel 7 · Translation / transmissionStephanie 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 storyMaria Skakuj-Puri (Independent scholar and translator) · Translating Ursula K. le Guin in Communist Poland: Stanisław Barańczak and A Wizard of EarthseaEmily York (James Madison University) · Le Guin in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) PedagogiesDiégo Antolinos-Basso &#38; 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&#160;12:30 – 14:00 Lunch&#160;14:00 – 15:00 · Panel 8 · Fiction-panierNoémie Moutel (Université de Caen) · Sur, un récit écoféministe pour l’AnthropocèneÉliane Beaufils (Université Paris 8 – Vincennes Saint-Denis) · Des fictions-paniers aux non-héros contemporains&#160;15:00 – 15:15 · Coffee break&#160;15:15 – 16:15 · Panel 9 · Hors la maison du maîtreQuentin Dubois (Université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès) · Ursula Le Guin : une besace chaosmotique dans le Jupiter SpaceThierry Drumm (Université Libre de Bruxelles) · Raconter d’autres histoires avec Ursula K. Le Guin&#160;16:15 – 16:30 · Coffee break&#160;16:30 – 17:30 · Keynote 3Isabelle Stengers (Université Libre de Bruxelles) · Penser sur le mode SF