Utopies scientifiques en Union soviétique
Utopies scientifiques en Union soviétique
Du 22 au 24 septembre 2016, à Paris, le Cercec, le Cermes3, l’Université de Genève et l’Université de Californie à Berkeley, organisent une conférence internationale sur le rôle des fictions dans l’activité scientifique en Union soviétique.
Depuis la chute de l’Union soviétique, l’histoire des sciences a connu des avancées importantes. Un objet a toutefois été délaissé : l’utopie scientifique, fascinante et intrigante, parce que située à la frontière entre littérature et science. L’objectif de ce colloque est de comprendre comment les fictions ont pu avoir une fonction heuristique, participer de la transformation de l’activité scientifique et reconfigurer les rapports entre science et pouvoir.Le questionnement portera d’abord sur les relations entre fiction et sciences, afin d’explorer comment littérature et cinéma se sont appropriés certains des concepts basés sur les découvertes scientifiques et, inversement, comment les sciences se sont servies des imaginaires proposés par les fictions pour étoffer leurs discours, contester les découvertes ou se lancer dans des expérimentations inédites. Ce double mouvement est médiatisé par le pouvoir. Aussi, on sera attentif à la commande sociale et aux mécanismes de censure à l’œuvre.programme
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SEPTEMBER 22. EHESS
18.30-18.50. Welcoming remarks by Grégory Dufaud (CNRS/CERMES3), Ioulia Podoroga (Geneva University), Alexei Yurchak (University of California, Berkeley), Larissa Zakharova (EHESS/CERCEC)
18.50-19.35. Inaugural lecture by Nikolai Krementsov (University of
Toronto), The Valley of New Life (1928): Between Science and Fiction
19.35-20.00. Discussion
SEPTEMBER 23. INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES OF PARIS
POWER AND AMBIVALENCE OF SCIENCE (09.00-10.50)
Chair: Françoise Daucé (EHESS/CERCEC/IUF)
09.00-09.20. Daniela Steila (University of Turin): Statistics and the Utopia of a Global Control
09.20-09.40. Leonid Heller (Lausanne University): The Total Body of a New Man: Projected, Prosthetic and Trained Organs
09.40-10.00. Annick Morard (Geneva University): Physical Monstrosities and Utopia(s) in Alexandre Beliaev’s Novels
10.00-10.20. Discussant: Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University London)
10.20-10.50. Discussion
10.50-11.10. Coffee break
THE ENERGY OF SOCIALISM (11.10-13.00)
Chair: Alexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia)
11.10-11.30. Il’ia Kalinin (Saint-Petersburg State University): Energy and Socialism: between Electrification and ‘Electrofiction’
11.30-11.50. Anindita Banerjee (Cornell University): Red Allah’s Oil: Petroutopia in the Shadow of Empire
11.50-12.10. Discussant: Anna Åberg (Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden)
12.10-12.30. Discussion
12.30-14.00. Lunch
THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY (14.00-16.20)
Chair: Catherine Depretto (University Paris-IV)
14.00-14.20. Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley): Dead Cyborg: Lenin’s Body between Art and Biology
14.20-14.40. Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja (S. Freud University, Wien): Individual and Collective Immortality at the Junction of Utopia and Ideology in the USSR
14.40-15.00. Joy Neumeyer (UC Berkeley): Faces of Death: Soviet Immortality in Plaster
15.00-15.20. Anya Bernstein (Harvard University): The Gates of Immortality: Life Extension and Space Exploration in the Soviet Science and Fiction (1960s-1980s)
15.20-15.40. Discussant: Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto)
15.40-16.20. Discussion
16.20-16.40. Coffee break
PROFESSIONAL MILIEUS OF UTOPIA (16.40-18.40)
Chair: Alexandr Dmitriev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
16.40-17.00. Matthias Schwartz (Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin): A New Poetics of Science. On the Establishment of “Scientific-Artistic Literature” in the Late Stalin Period
17.00-17.20. Thomas William McLenachan (UCL SSEES, London): Nuclear Utopias in Cold War Culture. The Representation of the Physicist in Soviet Film (1962-1972)
17.20-17.40. Slava Gerovitch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Will Mathematics Save the World? The Strugatsky Brothers and the Ethos of the Soviet Mathematics Community in the 1970s
17.40-18.00. Discussant: Alexei Kojevnikov (University of British Columbia)
18.00-18.30. Discussion
19.30. Dinner
SEPTEMBER 24. BULAC
UTOPIAN HUMAN SCIENCES AND DIDACTIC FICTION (09.30-12.00)
Chair: Ioulia Podoroga (Geneva University)
09.30-09.50. Steven Lee (UC Berkeley): The Ethnic Utopias of Nikolai Marr and the Soviet Avant-Garde
09.50-10.10. Mieka Erley (Colgate University, Hamilton NY, USA): Soviet Paleoanthropology in Vladimir Obruchev’s Lost Worlds
10.10-10.30. Robert Bird (University of Chicago): Model Objects: Scale Models in Soviet Film of the 1930s
10.30-10.50. Mikhail Roshchin (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences). Scientific Utopia and Reality in Iurii Dolgushin’s Novel Generator of miracles
10.50-11.10. Discussant: Aleksandr Dmitriev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
11.10-11.50. Discussion
11.50-13.10. Lunch
NEW WORLDS, NEW FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE (13.10-15.00)
Chair: Alexei Yurchak (University of California, Berkeley)
13.10-13.30. Lyubov Bugaeva (St. Petersburg State University, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): The Underwater World of Soviet Utopia
13.30-13.50. Evgeny Vodichev (Novosibirsk State Technical and National Research Tomsk State Universities), Ekaterina Zhimuleva (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk): ‘Siberian New Atlantis’: How Utopia Blossomed and Faded
13.50-14.10. Ksenia Tatarchenko (Geneva University): ‘Right to Be Wrong’: Transgression, Gaming, and Programming in Kon-tiki: A Path to the Earth (1985-1986)
14.10-14.30. Discussant: Valérie Pozner (CNRS/ARIAS)
14.30-15.00. Discussion
15.00-15.20. Coffee break
SOCIALIST UTOPIAS GO GLOBAL (15.20-17.10)
Chair: Nikolai Krementsov (University of Toronto)
15.20-15.40. Oliver Sukrow (Institute for European Art History, University of Heidelberg): Networks: On the Utopian Qualities of Technology, Cybernetics, and Participation in the GDR of the late 1960s
15.40-16.00. Lisa Sang Mi Min (UC Berkeley): Non-Aligned: Art, Science, and the Alternative Utopia of North Korean Socialism
16.00-16.20. Rafael Pedemonte (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Influence beyond the Ocean: Utopian Future and Historic Optimism in Cuban Science-Fiction Literature (1961-1984).
16.20-16.40. Discussant: Leonid Heller (Lausanne University)
16.40-17.10. Discussion
17.10-17.40. Concluding remarks
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