{"id":40280,"date":"2025-06-19T11:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/imagining-writing-and-reading-possible-futures\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:14:22","slug":"imagining-writing-and-reading-possible-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/en\/en-ce-moment-en\/imagining-writing-and-reading-possible-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining, writing and reading possible futures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Which book would you take with you on your climate exile? Or, more seriously, in what ways do the human sciences, and literary disciplines in particular, take up the issues surrounding the environment, the ecological crisis and sustainability? How can the study of literature help us to take stock of the social and symbolic dimensions of the relationship between human beings and their natural environment? Can fictional narratives heal, if not alleviate, solastalgia<\/a>, the nostalgic distress we feel in the face of the planet’s mutations, the feeling at the root of eco-anxiety, the new malady of the century? In other words, can poetry save the world<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n

These questions are at the heart of the public course 2022 of the Centre interdisciplinaire d’\u00e9tude des litt\u00e9ratures (CIEL)<\/a>, organized in partnership with the Centre de comp\u00e9tences en durabilit\u00e9 (CCD)<\/a> of the University of Lausanne. Alongside this course entitled “Durabilitt\u00e9rature”<\/a>, we offer a selection of eco-literary works, sustainable narratives and studies marking out recent fields of ecocriticism and ecopoetics. Discover this thematic selection in the Renouvaud catalog<\/a>, as well as the physical exhibition on the Unith\u00e8que site from September 26 to October 7, 2022<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n

Narratives and imaginaries of sustainability<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

The launch, in 2019, of the Centre comp\u00e9tences en durabilit\u00e9 (CCD), aimed at developing interdisciplinarity and establishing the University of Lausanne as a pioneer in sustainability, coincided with the formulation of nine building sites<\/a> to be invested by Faculties and researchers\u2219euses. Under the leadership of the academic collection of geography and sustainability\/human ecology, we have seized upon these projects as reservoirs to enhance the documentary resources<\/a> available on the library’s physical and virtual shelves. Making these resources available is also what is required by the first of the areas identified by the CCD, \u201cNarratives and Imaginaries\u201d<\/a>, which has yet to be fully explored by researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Creative, teaching and research initiatives do exist, and they multiply every year, but they lacked a common place of expression and deployment. <\/p>\n\n

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