Des humains aux terrestres. Pour un nouveau récit du vivant

International symposium entitled From Humans to Earthlings. Towards a New Narrative of Life organised by Davide Luglio, Professor and Director of ELCI (Italian Literature and Culture Team - UR 1496) at Sorbonne University, Lucia della Fontana, PhD student at Sorbonne University, and Carla Benedetti, Professor at the University of Pisa, with the support of the Paris IAS.

Event available in person and via videoconference.
Conference in French and English.
Open to the public, registration required via the following link or via the QR Code in the attached programme.

Presentation

In the face of the environmental crisis, this interdisciplinary conference questions narratives and representations of humans in their ‘earthly’ condition, in dialogue with the natural sciences, philosophy, literature, law and the arts. Following on from the Terrestri meeting held in Naples in 2019 with Bruno Latour and Amitav Ghosh, the aim is to reflect on the narrative and conceptual transformations imposed by the ecological emergency, beyond the separation of nature and culture. Researchers and artists will explore the impact of the Anthropocene on contemporary imaginaries, the difficulties of overcoming anthropocentrism and the possibilities of a shared narrative of life.

Program

9.am.  Welcome

10.am. Carla Benedetti (University of Pisa)
La « République des Terrestres » : les raisons d’un projet

Chairmanship: Carla Benedetti
10.30 a.m.  Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena)
Humanité arrogante. Les Romains et l’environnement

11.00 a.m. Coffee break

11.30 a.m.  Olivier Remaud (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
La vie des éléments

12.00 p.m.  Francesco Zizola (Roma)
Hybris : sur l’arrogance de l’homme et la vulnérabilité de la nature

12.30 p.m. Discussion

1.00 p.m. Lunch break

Chairmanship: Cristina Savettieri
2.30 p.m. Federico Luisetti (University of St Gallen).
Planetary Subjects: A Pluriversal Paradigm

3.00 p.m. Manuele Gragnolati (Sorbonne University) & Francesca Southerden (Oxford University)
Vers une humanité-compost ? Sol et affect chez Boccace, Keats et Pasolini

3.30 p.m.  Bruno Locatelli (Forests and Societies, CIRAD)
Ecologies of Relation: Exploring Human–Nonhuman Entanglements through Socio-Ecological Networks

4 p.m. Coffee break

Chairmanship: Marguerite Bordry
4.30 p.m. Mario Carparelli (University of Salento)
Un philosophe « terrestre » du XVII^e siècle : Giulio Cesare Vanini

5 p.m.  Antonio Moresco
L’espèce folle

5.30 p.m.  Debates 

Contacts

📧lucia.dellafontana@gmail.com
📧davide.luglio@sorbonne-universite.fr

Organization 

• Scientific committee: Davide Luglio (Sorbonne University), Carla Benedetti (Cantiere umanistico dell’Antropocene, Università di Pisa), Cristina Savettieri (Università di Pisa), Davide Faranda (CNRS), Alessandro Fiorillo (Università di Pisa).
• Organization: Mario Carparelli (Università del Salento), Lucia della Fontana (Sorbonne University), Antonio Galetta (Università di Pisa/Sorbonne University).
• Institutions involved in the organisation/funding: Sorbonne University, Università di Chieti-Pescara, Università del Salento, Università di Pisa.