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ProgramJune 18-21, 2019Tuesday June 1820:30 &#183; Projection of documentary Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Arwen Curry, 2018)Cin&#233;ma Le Grand Action5 rue des &#201;coles, ParisMetro: Cardinal Lemoine / JussieuThe projection is free for all presenters (+ one or two guests per presenter).Wednesday June 19Institut du monde anglophone (Grand amphith&#233;&#226;tre)5 rue de l'&#201;cole de m&#233;decine, ParisMetro: Od&#233;on9:45 &#183; Word of welcome10:00 - 12:00 &#183; Panel 1 &#183; 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,&#160;Science Fiction&#160;and ResistanceSupriya Baijal (Deemed University) Negotiating &#8216;Power&#8217; and &#8216;Balance&#8217; in A Wizard of Earthsea (1968): An Eco-Critical Study12:00 - 13:30 &#183; Lunch13:30 - 15:00 &#183; Panel 2 &#183; Worlds, Bonds, BeingsEli Lee (Minor Literature[s]) &#8220;Another Way to Be&#8221; &#8211; 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 World15:00 - 15:30 &#183; Coffee break15:30 - 17:00 &#183; Panel 3 &#183; IndigeneityArwen Spicer (Clark College) Indigeneity and Utopia in Le Guin's EkumenMiranda Iossifidis &#38; Lisa Garforth (Newcastle University) Reading Le Guin: Ethnographic Figures and Speculative SociologiesStefan Schustereder (Eberhard Karls Universit&#228;t T&#252;bingen)A Cruel Mirror in Space? A Postcolonial Reading of Ursula LeGuin&#8217;s The Word for World is Forest17:00 - 17:15 &#183; Coffee break17:15 - 17:45 &#183; Keynote 1 Julie Phillips (Biographer of Le Guin) Love and language: Ursula K. Le Guin in Paris17:45 - 19:00 &#183; CocktailThursday June 2011:00 - 12:00 &#183; Panel 4 &#183; New EpistemologiesDavid Creuze (Universit&#233; de Lille) Coming Back Home from the Abyss: Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s Yin UtopianismLiesl King (York St John University) Moving Slowly with Le Guin &#8211; A Philosophy for Survival 12:00 - 13:00 &#183; 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&#8217;s Career13:00 - 14:30 &#183; Lunch14:30 - 16:00 &#183; Panel 5 &#183; Stages of LifePatrycja Kurjatto Renard (University of Tours) 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&#8217;s Earthsea Fantasy and Philip Pullman&#8217;s His Dark MaterialsMeghann Cassidy (&#201;cole Polytechnique) Subjectivity and Childhood in The Earthsea Quartet16:00 - 16:30 &#183; Coffee break16:30 - 17:30 &#183; Panel 6 &#183; Utopia 1Sarah Lohmann (Durham University)Complexity and the Radical Systemic Utopianism of Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s The DispossessedDennis Wilson Wise (University of Arizona) Unrealizable Ambiguous Utopias: Reading The Dispossessed through Leo Strauss and Plato17:30 - 17:45 &#183; Coffee break17:45 - 18:45 &#183; Panel 7 &#183; Utopia 2Joshua Abraham Kopin (University of Texas at Austin)Fragile, Makeshift, Improbable: Le Guin&#8217;s Anarchisms of Fidelity Justin Cosner (University of Iowa) Revolutionary Rhetoric: &#8220;Effective Dreams&#8221; and Utopic Potentialities in Ursula Le Guin&#8217;s Lathe of Heaven20:00 &#183; Conference dinnerFriday June 2110:30 - 12:30 Panel 7 &#183; 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) PedagogiesDi&#233;go 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 Writin12:30 - 14:00 Lunch14:00 - 15:00 &#183; Panel 8 &#183; Fiction-panierNo&#233;mie Moutel (Universit&#233; de Caen) Sur, un r&#233;cit &#233;cof&#233;ministe pour l'Anthropoc&#232;ne&#201;liane Beaufils (Universit&#233; Paris 8 &#8211; Vincennes Saint-Denis) Des fictions-paniers aux non-h&#233;ros contemporains15:00 - 15:15 &#183; Coffee break15:15 - 16:15 &#183; Panel 9 &#183; Hors la maison du ma&#238;treQuentin Dubois (Universit&#233; Toulouse-Jean-Jaur&#232;s) Ursula Le Guin : une besace chaosmotique dans le Jupiter Space Thierry Drumm (Universit&#233; Libre de Bruxelles) Raconter d&#8217;autres histoires&#160;avec Ursula K. Le Guin16:15 - 16:30 &#183; Coffee break16:30 - 17:30 &#183; Keynote 3Isabelle Stengers (Universit&#233; Libre de Bruxelles) Penser sur le mode SF