• 7:00 pm: Introduction.

• 7:30 pm: Radio broadcast in collaboration with *Duuu Radio on the occasion of the launch of the anthology Comment l’Océan s’est illuminé.

Comment l’Océan s’est illuminé (“How the Ocean Lit Up”) offers a fragmented yet sensitive perspective on a pivotal moment in our recent history: the “Great Fire” of June 23, 2030, whose 50th anniversary we commemorate today. This fire destroyed the Bois de Vincennes (Paris, France) and triggered a chain of events with profound ecological, cultural, and psychological repercussions. The anthology revisits the emergence of the mysterious Conscience B—an elusive, luminous entity still not fully understood—as well as the strange behaviors of the mourning starlings, whose songs began to mimic the sound of fire and whose bodies gave rise to peculiar fungi, part-plant, part-bird. These fungi, like the forest’s ashes, were ingested by humans, paving the way for new forms of perception, new sensitivities, and perhaps even a kind of interspecies communication—or a collective hallucination. Rather than offering an exhaustive scientific account of the event, the anthology seeks to explore its intimate, emotional, and symbolic consequences, particularly through the voices of the “children of the fire,” a generation forever marked by loss, sensory transformation, and the emergence of an other kind of consciousness. Through fragments, it aims to capture the moment that forever redefined how we see and inhabit the world since.

Comment l’Océan s’est illuminé, featuring texts by the participants of the “Grieving-With” writing workshop, French edition, graphic design by Clara Degay, published by Bétonsalon, Centre des Politiques de la Terre and Université Paris Cité, Paris, 2080.

• 8:15 pm: “Shifting Writing Practices: Between Research and Fiction” – a collective discussion with the participants of the “Grieving-With” writing workshop, Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke, Nathalie Blanc, Émilie Renard, and Elena Lespes Muñoz

What can fiction do to science? How can a writing practice inform a research practice? How can science-fiction writing act on the structures of our imaginaries and enable us to outline enviable and breakaway futures? This discussion aims to collectively revisit these questions and explore how the practice of writing, as developed through the workshops and events held during Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke’s residency at Université Paris Cité, has questioned—and even shifted—academic writing practices, allowing new forms of sharing and knowledge to emerge.