If we are talking to you about this seminar, it is for many very good reasons:
We talk about literature and science
Each seminar has two guests: a researcher and an author
It’s happening at the UGA (well yes you have to be a little chauvinistic)
And then look at the list of authors …
You will find all the detailed information and links to the Youtube channel HERE
When and how did life appear on Earth? Do life forms evolve elsewhere, such as in the geysers of Enceladus or on a distant exoplanet? If so, in what forms? These questions are among the most fruitful for the collective imagination. Chemistry and organic biology on the one hand, the study of the stars of our solar system and exoplanets on the other hand have provided scientists with knowledge that may have nourished this imagination or collided with it. At the same time, science fiction writers draw on both this imagination and the most recent scientific discoveries to build plausible worlds with extreme environments, populated by various forms of life and the theater of epic tales. Each work of fiction and each scientific publication thus pushes back the horizon of our expectations about life and its appearance in the Universe.
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Organized at the MSH Alpes, with the Master in Scientific and Technical Communication and Culture (CCST) from the University of Grenoble Alpes, this interdisciplinary seminar offers to cross the views of scientists and science fiction authors through the prism of the Human Sciences and social (SHS). Together, they evoke these back and forth between science and imagination and their quest to accurately portray possible worlds. Science fiction is questioned here as a space of “science-society encounter” and a place of socio-scientific mediation where a science is affirmed, anchored in a world that it participates in building, between commitment and scientific citizenship. This seminar is intended for researchers, teacher-researchers, doctors and doctoral students, master’s students of all disciplines.
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