Program

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Time Event  
09:45 - 10:00 Opening speeches - EMMA, coorganisateurs  
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote in American Literature - Sylvie Bauer  
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break  
11:20 - 11:50 Escaping from totalitarianism through Mind Upload: weaving together dystopian polychronic strands in Lance Olsen's Skin Elegies - Hanna Hadjadj  
11:50 - 12:20 Monstruous maternity (novels, non-fiction, and on screen) - Christelle Centi  
12:20 - 12:50 Philip K. Dick and SciFi in the information age - Antonin Premillieu  
13:00 - 14:25 Lunch  
14:30 - 15:00 Uchronia, capitalism and art: a study of M. Allahyari's Material Speculation. - Gina Cortopassi  
15:00 - 15:30 The disappearance of AltSpaceVR - Hortense Boulais-Ifrène  
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee break  
15:50 - 16:20 Mad God or the inevitable downfall of humanity - Anthony Morin-Hébert  
16:20 - 16:50 « Horizons of Horror and Hope » : Authority, agency and apocalyptic (a)temporality(ies) - Mounir Tairi  
19:30 - 22:30 Dinner in the Old City  

Friday, September 29, 2023

Time Event  
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome - (welcome and setting up audiovisual and technical logistics for the day)  
09:45 - 10:15 The series "1983" as counter-narrative of Eastern European countries' democratic transition - Jessy Neau  
10:15 - 10:45 The fascist train is always on time: power and its temporalities in "Snowpiercer" - Elaine Després  
10:45 - 11:15 « One family, fighting the future » : Years and Years (Russell T. Davies, 2019). - Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet  
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break  
11:45 - 12:45 Keynote conference (history of social conflict) - Ludivine Bantigny  
12:45 - 13:55 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:30 The crisis upon us: can one face the present? Shock and paralysis, and the emergence of counterpowers in a few post-apocalyptic fictions - Gaëlle Debeaux  
14:30 - 15:00 Questionning hegemonic temporality in a narrative of environmental disaster: Yi Ok-seop's film "Maggie" (2019) - Julie Fortin  
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break  
15:20 - 15:50 The future as jail? Power, agency and retrocausality in the series "Flashforward" - Louis-Paul Willis  
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee break  
15:50 - 16:20 Freeing oneself from prewritten scripts: the emancipatory power of metafiction in "Loki", Season 1 - Hervé Mayer  
16:20 - 16:30 Closing remarks - Monica Michlin  
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