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PresentationIn 2019 and 2020, the Sorbonne Nouvelle &#8220;science and literature&#8221; group will continue to explore the biological imagination in contemporary arts.&#160;We are delighted to invite you to two symposiums on Biological Perspectives in 21st-century Literature and Performance : "New Scales", on June 7th 2019&#160;"New Images", on June 12th 2020You will find the program for the "New Scales" symposium here: https://litorg.hypotheses.org/This symposium is organized by the Sorbonne Nouvelle &#8220;Sciences et Litt&#233;rature&#8221; group, thanks to the financial support of the Institut universitaire de France and of &#8220;19-21 Modernit&#233;s critiques&#8221; (EA 4398 PRISMES).To subscribe to our mailing list, send an email to liliane.campos@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr or pierre-louis.patoine@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr.Programm9.00 &#8211; 9.15: Welcome9.15 &#8211; 10.05: Josie Gill (University of Bristol): &#8216;Pharmacogenomics, Racial Medicine and Colson Whitehead&#8217;s&#160;Apex Hides the Hurt&#8217;Respondent: Kerry-Jane Wallart (Sorbonne University)10.10&#8211; 11.00:&#160;Pieter Vermeulen (University of Leuven): &#8216;Depopulating the Novel: Nonscalability and Population at the End of the World&#8217;Respondent: Catherine Larose (CNRS, Environmental Microbial Genomics)11.00 &#8211; 11.20: Coffee break11.20 &#8211; 12.10:&#160;Ben de Bruyn (Maastricht University): &#8216;Ecosystem Modeling: Scales, Populations, Reservoir 13&#8217;Respondent: Sarah Bouttier (&#201;cole Polytechnique)12.15-13.00: Eric Bapteste (CNRS):&#8216;Nested Evolution, Reticulate Evolution, Sideways Evolution: Jumping Across the Scales of Life&#8217;Respondent: Fr&#233;d&#233;rique A&#239;t-Touati (CNRS &#8211; EHESS)13.00 - 14.30: Lunch break14.30-16.00: Fr&#233;d&#233;rique A&#239;t-Touati (CNRS &#8211; EHESS), Eliane Beaufils (University of Paris 8), Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle University / IUF)&#160;Round-table: &#8216;New biological scales in contemporary performance&#8217;16.00 - 16.15: Coffee break 16.15 &#8211; 17.05: Sophie Musitelli (University of Lille / IUF): &#8216;Still Life and Vital Matter in Gillian Clarke&#8217;s Poetry&#8217;Respondent: Marc Por&#233;e (Sorbonne Nouvelle University / ENS)17.10 &#8211; 18.00:&#160;Derek Woods (Dartmouth College): &#8216;Fungoid Life: The Novels of Jeff VanderMeer&#8217;Respondent: Pierre Cassou-Nogu&#232;s (Paris VIII University)