# Event Details - **Event Name**: Talk - The Human and the Nonhuman in the Tragedies of Jean Racine - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm - **Event Description**: Talk - The Human and the Nonhuman in the Tragedies of Jean RacineAbout this EventThis talk examines how Racine’s plays engage with early modernunderstandings of the natural world. Focusing on representations of natural phenomena in the plays, it explores how Racine’s language makes audible the often-overlooked entanglement of human speech, emotion, and agency with the nonhuman forces which both sustain and unsettle them. The analysis situates the plays within the broader climatic volatility of the seventeenth century, revealing how motifs of ruined landscapes, fragile ecologies, and collapsing temporalities resonate with contemporaneous accounts of environmental devastation. By placing Racine’s drama in this material and historical context, the talk challenges long-standing views of French neoclassicism as an abstract, anti-materialist tradition concerned primarily with psychological interiority. Ultimately, it argues that Racine’s tragedies model a world in which human action is inextricable from a precarious, interdependent environment, a vision which speaks powerfully to our own era of ecological uncertainty. Carrie Heusinkveld is a third-year PhD student in French literature at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines representations of the natural world in early modern French theatre and poetry, with a particular focus on the dramas of Jean Racine. She has presented her research at the Society for French Studies, the Society for Early Modern French Studies, and The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies. She is also a contributor to Racine's Late Greek Tragedies: Essays on 'Iphigénie' and 'Phèdre', which will be published by Brill in April 2026.'  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/talk-the-human-and-the-nonhuman-in-the-tragedies-of-jean-racine/100001981092823966 - **Event Categories**: art, theatre, literary-art, performances, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Cambridge - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: 1 Red Cross Lane CB2 0QU Cambridge Free car park (Bell Foundation) - **lat**: 52.1743923 - **long**: 0.1467944 - **full address**: 1 Red Cross Lane CB2 0QU Cambridge Free car park (Bell Foundation), 1 Red Cross Lane CB2 0QU Cambridge Free car park (Bell Foundation), Cambridge, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Talk - The Human and the Nonhuman in the Tragedies of Jean Racine - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/50ce1e528d2ba7fdd8ae2706b3fdd8cb28d653cfa0919b5a05e48714b5ce74ab-rimg-w1200-h675-dcfeeed7-gmir.jpg?v=1769276719 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Talk - The Human and the Nonhuman in the Tragedies of Jean Racine being held? - **A:** Talk - The Human and the Nonhuman in the Tragedies of Jean Racine takes place on Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm at 1 Red Cross Lane CB2 0QU Cambridge Free car park (Bell Foundation), 1 Red Cross Lane CB2 0QU Cambridge Free car park (Bell Foundation), Cambridge, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Talk - The Human and the Nonhuman in the Tragedies of Jean Racine? - **A:** Talk - The Human and the Nonhuman in the Tragedies of Jean Racine is organized by Alliance Française Cambridge. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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