Guest Lecture and Game Demo: Play like it's 1701
- Mar 26, 2025
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Lecturer: Karin Kukkonen
26 March 2025
Games were a common entertainment in the salons of seventeenth-century Paris. The salonnières drew on existing games and also invented new ones for the writers, intellectuals and artists who assembled in their salons. The JEUX project investigates how novelists from the period used these games to rethink their narrative and creative practices. In this talk, I will reflect on the link between gameplay and creativity through the salon games, along with some of the games we have reconstructed for the project.
Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo (Norway). She has recently finished a monograph Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing (Bloomsbury, forthcoming) and currently leads a project on how early novelists deployed literary games in order to (re-)invent what the novel could be (JEUX, ERC Consolidator Grant, 2024-2028).