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CONTEMPORARY VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique - CESSP
This conference will bring together scholars from the Social Sciences and the with the goal of examining the ways in which contemporary cultural productions imagine the future. It is an attempt to better understand how our current narratives try to make sense, reflect, and react to the rapid pace of social, political, and technological changes of the last few decades. In addition to discussing some recurrent contemporary visions of utopian, dystopian, and other futures, we are also interested in looking at theoretical approaches to the study of temporality. This includes defining current temporal modes, analyzing the chronotos of our contemporary time, and understanding the time-space models or molds that are shaping narratives about the future. We are also interested in changes and developments in the genres and topos that literature developed throughout the years for presenting the future ; from dreams to prophecy, to super realism, to science fiction, and more. While this is our starting point, the conversation is not limited to these specific questions and we are open to any other investigations that would help us understand the ways communities, literatures, and cultures imagine both our local and global futures. We are using the term ‘contemporary’ as a wide category that covers works from the last few decades of the previous century to today.
Programme
Morning session
9:30- Introduction : Gisèle Sapiro (CNRS-EHESS- CESSP) and Vered Karti Shemtov (Stanford)
9:45-11:00 - Beyond human temporalities ; Chair: Gisèle Sapiro (CNRS-EHESS-CESSP)
Margaret Cohen (Stanford): “The Helmeted Beholder.”
Anne Simon (CNRS-CRAL): “Other temporalities of life: zoopoetics and animal perspectivism.”
11:00-11:15 - Coffee Break
11:15- 12:30 - Literature as Resistance ; Chair: Margaret Cohen (Stanford)
Vered Karti Shemtov (Stanford) & Elana Gomel (TAU): “A Sense of (No) Ending or how Literary Narratives can Refuse to write the Future.”
Marielle Macé (CNRS-EHESS-CRAL): “Our huts. Youth, precarity and imagination.”
12:30-2:00- Lunch Break
Afternoon session
14:00-15:15 - Changing paradigms ; Chair: Anne Simon (CNRS-CRAL)
Emmanuel Bouju (Rennes, IUF): “Search for Tomorrow. Epimodernism and Fiduciary Paradigm.”
Amir Eshel (Stanford): “Beyond Metaphysics: Betzelem/ in the Image. On Literature and the Arts in our (Post) Secular Age.”
15:15-16:30 - The politics of the future ; Chair: Vered Karti Shemtov (Stanford)
Ella Elbaz (Stanford):“The limits of Probability and the Shortsightedness of Imagination: The case of Future Jerusalem.”
Sadia Agsous (EHESS-CESSP):“Sayed Kashua’s Let it be Morning: the future of the Palestinians in Israel as a chronotop, a literary strategy?”
16:30-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-18 - Visualizing the future ; Chair: Amir Eshel (Stanford)
Smadar Sheffi (Curator): “TIME AS OBJECT, OBJECT AS TIME: On contemporary visual art projects addressing time by Maya Attoun and by Guy Goldstein.”
Kantuta Quiros et Aliocha Imhoff, “Les impatients” (video projection) : http://www.lepeuplequimanque.org/les-impatients
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