Venue: Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg/MS Teams meeting room
Organisers: Lorenzo Andolfatto and Christine Bichsel
Day 1 – Friday, August 28
9h-9h30 Workshop opening – Christine Bichsel & Lorenzo Andolfatto, University of Fribourg
9h30-12h Session 1 – Lorenzo Andolfatto (Discussant)
- « Thinking beyond the Antropocene: Excavating Potential Futures/Future Potentials in Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home » — Ben Garlick & Liesl King, York St John University
- « Social Space and Dystopian Geography in Hao Jingfang’s Novel Wandering Maerth » — Nicoletta Persaro, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- « Future Spaces: Geo Fiction, Science Fiction, Utopia » — Anke Schwarz & Frank Müller, Technical University Dresden
13h30-16h Session 2 – Christine Bichsel (Discussant)
- « Zheng He’s Travels and Alternative Geographies of Earth in Liu Cixin’s Science Fiction » — Gwennaël Gaffric, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
- « “You Have Forgotten How to Care”: Accelerationism’s Uneven Geographies in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine » — David K. Seitz, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA
- « Lost Utopia: Star Trek’s Socio-spatial Reflections » — Mark Rhodes, Michigan Technology University
Day 2 – Saturday, August 29
9h30-12h Session 3 – Lorenzo Andolfatto (Discussant)
- « “It was quiet”: The Radical Architectures of Understatement in Feminist SF » — Amy Butt, University of Reading
- « Biopunk(ed) Urban Ecologies: Miéville’s (2000) Perdido Street Station as a Counterposition to Contemporary Ecological Design » — Ben A. Platt, University of Cambridge
- « Heterotopias in Han Song’s Science Fiction » — Loïc Aloisio, Aix-Marseille Université
14h-16h Closing Remarks/Plenary Session – Chaired by Lorenzo Andolfatto & Christine Bichsel
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Loïc Aloisio (9 août 2020). Earth and its Others: the Geographies of Science Fiction (Workshop). SinoSF. Consulté le 14 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/u77j