Utopia 2000 :
Literary programme
Official literary programme, last updated on 19 octobre 2000 à 19h23 (GMT) (sorry for the French date !)
Literary events will all take place at
the Nantes Cité des Congrès.
(names and events in italic await definitive confirmation)
Tuesday, 24 October
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Opening ceremony |
Wednesday, 25 October
| 10:00 - 19:00 | Programming for "Mediators" |
Thursday, 26 October
| 09:00 - 16:45 | Programming for "Young Readers" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17:00 - 18:30 | "Café
littéraire" #1 : Julian Diez, Hervé Jubert, Sergei Lukyanenko, Michel Pagel, Christopher Priest (moderator : Lauric Guillaud, Nantes University). |
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| 17h30 - 18h30 | Situation of the
SF for young people (Christian Grenier, Denis Guiot, Stéphane Manfredo and al.) |
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| 18:30 - 20:00 | "Café
littéraire" #2 : Elena Groushko, H. Henrik Loyche, Rodolfo Martinez, Norman Spinrad, Jean-Michel Truong (moderator : nooSFere) |
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| 20:00 - 22:00 | Links between
literature and comics in SF (Caza, Georges Mérel, Rafael Marin, W.J. Maryson, Philippe Ward and others comics authors.) (moderator : Olivier Delcroix, Le Figaro). |
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Friday, 27 October
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Author's rights : the
end of serfdom ? (Ayerdhal, Pierre Bordage, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Jean-Marc Ligny). |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Introducing of the Association
AELITA (Bruno della Chiesa, Valerio Evangelisti, Patrick Gyger) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | SF on the Internet / SF and
the Internet (nooSFere) |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Internet publishing (nooSFere) |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Publishers, illustrators :
an (un)fruitful co-operation ? (Ayerdhal, Caza, Patrice Duvic, Gilles Francescano, Philippe Jozelon, Thomas Leclère, Mandy, Charlotte Moundlic, Pascal Van Lair) (moderator : Patrick Gyger,La Maison d'Ailleurs) |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | SF in Northern Europe (Henrik Loyche, W.J. Maryson) (moderator : Bruno della Chiesa, Utopia) |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | SF in Russia (Elena Groushko, Sergei Lukyanenko, Larisa Mihaylova) (moderator : Bruno della Chiesa, Utopia) |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | SF in Spain (Juan Miguel Aguilera, Armando Boix, Julian Diez, Rafael Marín, Rodolfo Martínez, Javier Negrete) (moderator : Sylvie Miller, nooSFere) |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | "Café littéraire"
#3 : Pierre Bordage, Andreas Eschbach, Kathleen Goonan, Vincent Michel, Rafael Marin (moderator : Alain Jardy, Galaxies) |
| 20:30 - 22:30 | Panel discussion : God(s),
the Devil(s) & Others : religions and myths in SF (including the launch of new publisher Au diable Vauvert) (Juan Miguel Aguilera, Francis Berthelot, Terry Bisson, Pierre Bordage, Philippe Curval, Andreas Eschbach, Valerio Evangelisti, Marion Mazauric, James Morrow, Javier Negrete, Jean-Michel Truong) (moderator : Jacques Baudou, Le Monde.) |
Saturday, 28 October
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Launch of Folio SF, a new series from Gallimard | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Launch of Bragelonne,
a new SF publisher (Fabrice Colin, Matthieu Gaborit, Stéphane Marsan) |
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| 12:00 - 13:30 | "Café littéraire"
#4 : Ayerdhal, Robert Belmas, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Marcus Hammerschmitt, James Morrow (moderator : Marion Mazauric, Au diable Vauvert) |
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| 13:30 - 14:30 | Toxico-fictions :
drogues, psychotropes et toxicomanie dans la science-fiction (Drugs
and Addiction in SF) (François Rouiller) (introduced by Bruno della Chiesa, Utopia) |
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| 14:30 - 15:30 | Science-fiction et
philosophie : un mariage de raison ? (Science Fiction and
Philosophy, An Arranged Marriage ?) (Francis Berthelot, Kathleen Goonan, Marcus Hammerschmitt, Rodolfo Martinez, W.J. Maryson, Luca Masali, Sascha Mamczak, Christopher Priest, Norman Spinrad, Roland Wagner) (moderator : Nathalie Labrousse, nooSFère) |
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| 15:30 - 17:00 | Ainsi soit-elle :
femmes de SF (Women in SF, Women Writing SF) (Claire Belmas, Jeanne Faivre d'Arcier, Kathleen Goonan, Serena Gentilhomme, Elena Groushko, Dany Jeury, Usch Kiausch, Larisa Mihaylova, Birgit Rabisch, Joëlle Wintrebert) (introduced and moderated by Joëlle Wintrebert) |
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| 17:00 - 18:00 | Frederik Pohl, prix
Utopia 2000 : "Things to come" (introduced by Stéphane Nicot, Galaxies) |
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| 18:00 - 19:30 | "Café littéraire"
#5 Jean-Pierre Andrevon, Terry Bisson, Jean-Pierre Fontana, Javier Negrete, Birgit Rabisch (moderator : Dominique Warfa) |
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| 20:00 - 22:00 | Awards Ceremony (Cinema, Comics, "Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire", "Prix Dorémieux", "Prix Utopia") | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sunday, 29 October
| 12:00 - 13:30 | "Café littéraire"
#6 : Armando Boix, Nicolas Bouchard, Philippe Curval, Usch Kiausch, Luca Masali (moderator : Stéphane Nicot, Galaxies) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | "Café littéraire"
#7 : Juan Miguel Aguilera, Valerio Evangelisti, Laurent Genefort, Wolfgang Jeschke. (moderator : Jean-Daniel Brèque, nooSFère and Galaxies) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Graines de futurs : La
science-fiction peut-elle aider les jeunes à entrer dans l'avenir ?
(Can science fiction help young people to face the future ?) (with the launch of Autres Mondes, a new series from Mango publishing) (Ange, Robert Belfiore, Alain Grousset, Jean-Pierre Hubert, Albert Jacquard, Christophe Lambert, Jean-Marc Ligny, Danielle Martinigol, Birgit Rabisch, Joëlle Wintrebert) (moderator : Denis Guiot) |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Paying Homage : Van Vogt
and France (Joseph Altairac) |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Mainstream and SF :
Which Bridges ? (Jean-Pierre Andrevon, Terry Bisson, Nicolas Bouchard, Michel Demuth, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Wolfgang Jeschke, Gérard Klein, Sascha Mamczak, Michel Pagel, René Réouven, Jacques Sadoul, Andy Sawyer and al.) (moderator : Jacques Chambon) |