In this year’s annual seminar, we will play literary games together with colleagues from different disciplines to explore how shared gameplay can foster interdisciplinary dialogues around literature, playfulness and creativity.
Participants: Gwenaëlle Aubry (Philosophy / Literature), Johanna Kaakinen (Psychology), Merja Polvinen (Literature), Veli-Matti Karhulahti (Game Studies), Giovanna Colombetti (Philosophy), Andreas Roepstorff (Anthropology), Marina Warner (Literature), Koen de Temmerman (Classics), and Espen Aarseth (Game Studies)
Programme
15 September at Villa Lante (Finnish Institute in Rome)
Workshop: Playing the Games
16 September at the Norwegian Institute in Rome
Evening Lecture: “Novelists at Play: Creativity, Literary Games and the Early-Modern Novel”
17 September at the Norwegian Institute in Rome
Seminar: Literary Games: Theorising Through Literature Across Disciplinary Boundaries