Ever wanted to travel back in time to the eighteenth century? Curious about how video games can contribute to research in French studies? Come experience a VR immersion in a restituted eighteenth-century Fair theatre!

Two scholars, Françoise Rubellin (Université de Nantes) and Jeffrey Leichman (LSU), who created a VR theater game: https://vespace.univ-nantes.fr/ will present a play by Marivaux.

La storia del soldato [The Soldier’s Tale], Igor Stravinsky's musical theater piece with a libretto by Charles Ramuz, is a new production of the Figli d’Arte Cuticchio

La storia del soldato [The Soldier’s Tale], Igor Stravinsky's musical theater piece with a libretto by Charles Ramuz, is a new production of the Figli d’Arte Cuticchio

La storia del soldato [The Soldier’s Tale], Igor Stravinsky's musical theater piece with a libretto by Charles Ramuz, is a new production of the Figli d’Arte Cuticchio

In the uncanny grey-on-grey of the historico-political conjuncture in which we find ourselves within the Humanities—if not, more broadly, within western democratic polities—the three participants involved in this panel each propose to approach, scrutinize, and trouble the aesthetic, political and theoretical figure, or temporalities, of the rupture; of the potential modes of meaningfulness, the ways we might measure and make sense of that which is involved in the motif of the break — in the timing of pause and excess, of abeyances and enjambments, of contretemps and becomings. Each coming from a different methodological signature, ranging from critical theory and philosophy to poetics and literary criticism, we propose to mark this event with a thought about what might lay on the other side of the cut, what historical, political, linguistic, and conceptual forms might remain open to thought after the césure.