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2020 Program Sessions

593. Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)

3:30 PM–4:45 PM Jan 11, 2020 (US - Pacific)

WSCC - 606

Session Information

Presentations

1: ‘It Is All One Story’: Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness as Decolonial Ethnography

Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U

2: Le Guin's Disruption of Settler-Nation Rhetoric and Indigenous Futurisms

Grace L. Dillon, Portland State U

3: Interplanetary Anthropology: The Flight from Oedipal Developmental History in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and ‘Coming of Age in Karhide’ (1995)

Sydney Lane, U of California, Santa Barbara

4: ‘The Impulse to Narrate’: Indeterminacy and the Science of Metaphor in Le Guin

Patrick Whitmarsh, Boston U

Presider

Mark Jerng, U of California, Davis

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