Roundtable: Battlestar Galactica – Rebuilding Mankind

Jérôme Nussbaum and Anne-Lise Melquiond

Friday, September 30 – 6:30 pm

Le 4 Bis
4bis cours des Alliés – 35000 Rennes

Free admission

Jérôme Nussbaum is co-founder and co-presenter of the GalactiFrak podcast devoted entirely to Battlestar Galactica. Anne-Lise Melquiond has a Doctoral degree, and authored a thesis entitled, "Apocalypse and End of the World in American Television Series Since 2001." She has also written an essay published with Playlist Society entitled, "Apocalypse Show, the Collapse of America."

Battlestar Galactica is a television series created in 2004 by Ronald D. Moore. Considered by many to be the best SF series ever made, it has left an indelible mark on cinema, and has made tremendous strides in transforming the once lukewarm attitude towards SF starting back in the early 2000s.

With Science Fiction as its compass these past twenty years, the morphing of the series illustrates such colosally-kaleidoscopic lines of thinking that anything even slightly worthy of comparison would come up humiliatingly short. An entanglement of politics, society, metaphysics and even religion fleshes out the series, instrumental in portraying the survival of Mankind.