9:00 - Bruce Bégout
Atmosphere and Zeitgeist. Toward an Atmospheric Reading of an Epoch

9:40 - Francesco Mazzucchelli
Who testifies when humans are not watching? Regimes of visibility and narrability in a new fog of war

10:20 - Simon Levesque
The living must carry the dead: Charlotte Delbo on conveying the deathly atmosphere and feelings of the Auschwitz concentration camp

11:00 - Coffee break

11:30 - Béatrice Gisclard & Pierre Fournier
Schrödinger’s Cat-astrophe

12:10 - Natalie Depraz
Emotional diffusivity and permeability 

12:50 - Lunch break

Hoche Campus, Chapelle

15:00 - Season Lao
Visit of the exhibition “Living Atmospheres / Atmosphères vivantes” in Chapelle (Hoche Campus)

“Living Atmospheres” presents important artworks by Season Lao that propose an aesthetic meditation on atmosphere, vulnerability, and survival. Installed in the historic Chapel of Nîmes University, the exhibition brings together paintings, site-specific installations, performances, and archival documents to explore how devastated landscapes, salvaged wood, mist, light, and silence can serve as the setting for a living memory. Rather than viewing disaster as pure loss,
the exhibition suggests that places and beings exist in states of ongoing transformation. Through philosophical references to Japanese philosophy, for instance, the exhibition proposes that atmosphere is not merely a backdrop but a shared condition of existence and survival.

15:30 - Romaric Jannel
Non-Determination as a Method: Silence, Interval, and the Making of Living Atmospheres Through Asian and Japanese Conceptions (In the presence of the artist, Season Lao).