Colloquium Science-fiction, religions, theologies
Science fiction works abound in theological and religious references. The radical decentering that science fiction allows makes it a literature open to mystery. Science fiction deals with beliefs, religious practices, but also with theological questions: gods abound, or life forms that question the modalities of divinity. The borderline situations developed in science fiction convey a thousand questions about the origin of things and their finality, about Good and Evil, about finitude, about death and the afterlife, etc. Olaf Stapledon, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanislas Lem, Greg Bear, Dan Simmons, Pierre Bordage, Frank Herbert, Ray Bradbury, Orson Scott Card… the list seems endless. It is this massive fact that this colloquium proposes to explore, to see how science fiction is worked by the religious and theological and how it works them in return.
With the exceptional participation of novelists Serge Lehman and Pierre Bordage and a screening of the film Stalker by A. Tarkovski at the cinema Le Majestic (Lille)
Scientific Committee
Ugo Bellagamba (University of Côte d’Azur)
Franck Damour (Catholic University of Lille)
David Doat (Catholic University of Lille)
Dominique Foyer (Catholic University of Lille)
Carole Guesse (University of Leuven)
Jessica Lombard (Catholic University of Lille)
Jean-Guy Nadeau (University of Montreal)
Tyler Reigeluth (Université Catholique de Lille)
Renaud Rochette (EPHE, Paris)
Natacha Vas-Deyres (Bordeaux Montaigne University)