Congrès - Le jeu : Gaming, Gambling and Play in Literature

Salle: Amphi Chasles

Chair: Salomé Paul (University College Dublin)

• Léa Di Santo-Navarro (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), “Jouer en société : représentations idéales du jeu et de la civilité”
• Crina Bud (Sorbonne Nouvelle), “(De)jouer les raisons des guerres : le théâtre des faits transfuges et de la fiction documentée”

Salle F671

Chair: Caroline Fischer (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)

• Rahilya Geybullayeva (Baku Slavic University), “Philology and Philosophy of Love”
• Antonella Ippolito (Université de Potsdam), “Un point de vue ludique comme accès à la liberté? La vita è gioco (1969) d’Alberto Moravia”
• Alaner Imamoglu (Eskisehir Osmangazi University), “Quand l’absurdité devient la règle : la civilisation est un jeu bien vertigineux”

Salle G361

Chair: Bernard Franco (Sorbonne University)

• Mirjam Hinrikus (Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences), “Textual Games in Examples of Estonian Literary Decadence”
• Ahmad Shakeri and Zahra Ojagh (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran), “Playing on Text With Communicative Mediators”
• Mersiha Ismajloska (University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle” in Ohrid), “Exploring Epic Phantasy: The Intertextuality of "The Witcher" in Gaming”

Salle Le Verrier

Chair: Metka Zupančič (Université d’Alabama à Tuscaloosa)

• Slavica Srbinovska (University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje), “Semantics of ‘Play’ in the Work of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter”
• Rosanne Gallenne (University College Dublin), “(Re)définir les règles du jeu : La Théorisation de la pratique poétique par Freda Laughton et Andrée Chedid”

Salle G363

Chair: Anne Ducrey (Sorbonne Université)

• Nelly Quémener (CELSA, Bordeaux Montaigne), “Maillan/de Funès, des trajectoires qui font 'pouic pouic’”
• Corinne François-Denève (Université de Haute-Alsace), “Jouer la blonde idiote : Sophie Daumier”
• Marie Duret-Pujol (ARTES, Université Bordeaux Montaigne) : “Du trouble au choc esthétique : L’ ‘Inquiétante étrangeté’ du jeu de Zouc”

Salle G366

Chair: Sándor Hites (Research Center for the Humanities, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest)

• Elena Fabietti (University of Regensburg), “Vertiginous Visions: Gustav Meyrink’s Literary Writing between Bodily Practices and Esoteric Beliefs”
• Anna Seidel (Humboldt-University Berlin), “Exploring Ilinx Through Intoxication: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s Poetological Experiments with Drugs for the Pursuit of the ‘Pure’ Form”
• Alena Heinritz (University of Innsbruck), “Ilinx and Efficiency: The Writer as a Runner”

Salle F050 

Chair: Richard Hibbitt (University of Leeds)

• Emilia Di Rocco (Sapienza Università di Roma), “Devotion and Gambling: Rewritings of the Parable of the Prodigal Son Between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period”
• Aurélien Roche (Université de Lille), “Jeu de hasard et irréligion dans les poésies arabe et latine médiévales : variations sur un interdit sacré”
• Hanna Mäkelä (independent researcher), “Sacred Games in a Secular World: Mythological Role-Play and Sacrificial Crisis in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Sarah Moss’s Ghost Wall”

Salle F051

Chair: Olga Szmidt (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)

• Teresa Vallès (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya), “Literature as Play: The Novel as a Game with Tradition, with Authorship and with the Reader”
• Santiago Bertrán (University of Warwick), “Frivolous, Escapist, and Uncommitted: Fernando Savater and Javier Marías, or The Serious Game of Writing in the Literature of Post-Francoist Spain”
• Iris Llop (Universitat de Barcelona), “The Novel’s Playfulness: The Legacy of Cervantes in Kundera’s L’Immortalité”

Salle F366

Chair: Anna Khalonina (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France)

• Hélène Thiérard (University of Saarland), “Traduire la révolution en contexte colonial : Wilhelm Tell in Manila d’ Annette Hug (2016)”
• Agnieszka Hudzik (Saarland University), “Alternate Histories and Interpretation Games in the Face of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)”
• Elisa Kriza (Bamberg University), “Zinoviev’s Homo Sovieticus: Translating the Soviet Experience for a Western Audience?”

Salle E655 

Chair: Elisa Kriza (Bamberg University)

• Beatrice Nickel (University of Stuttgart), “Chess and/in Literature: Text Production, Metaphor, Motif”
• Anja Meyer (University of Verona), “Croquet Flamingos and Playing Cards: Games and (Non)Rules in Carroll’s novels”
• Valentina Monateri (University of Turin), “‘Cause Girls Are Players Too’: Playing with the Forms and the Arts in Three Modernist Women’s Writings”
• Sampayan Chakraborty and Thirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi) “Chess in Literature: Illusions, Metaphors, and Cosmic Play in Premchand, Karnad and Beckett”

Amphi Chasles

Chair: Antonella Ippolito (Universität Potsdam)

• Zihan Zhou (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), “Play in the Ghetto: Affirmative Biopolitics in Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful (1997)”
• Christiane Solte-Gresser (Université de la Sarre) “Pour un jeu de revenants. Le Théâtre des victimes face à l’irréparable du génocide”
• Eyüp Özveren (Middle East Technical University in Ankara), “Just [Intertextual] Gaming, or Much More in a Postcolonial Context: Dönüş [The Return] of Cengiz Dağcı as a Rebuttal of Anton Chekhov’s ‘Lady with a Dog’”

Salle F671

Chair: Riccardo Antonangeli (Sapienza University of Rome)

• Alexandra Cheira (University of Lisbon/ ULICES), “’May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour’ – Playing Games of Life and Death in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy, George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones and The Thousand and One Nights”
• Elena Anastasaki (Université de Thessalie), “Le Jeu du monde et les enjeux de la littérature. Penser la littérature avec Kostas Axelos”
• Miguel Ángel Albújar-Escuredo (University of Kansas), “Virtualizing Nihilism in the Age of Hyperstition: Novelette as an Emulator of Ontological Confusion or the Emergence of a New Pascal’s Wager Iteration”

Salle G361

Chair: Rosanne Gallenne (University College Dublin)

• Katia Hayek (Université Masaryk), “Jeu de piste, jeux littéraires et déploiement politique de la modernité” 
• Gabriele D’Amato (Ghent University / University of L’Aquila), “Twice-Told Tales: Multiperspective Love Stories in Contemporary Fiction”
• Odete Jubilado (Université d’Évora), “La (Re)lecture comme jeu chez Saramago et Sollers”

Salle Le Verrier

Chair: Bernard Franco (Sorbonne University)

• Elisa Sotgiu (Harvard), “Gambling Your Soul: The Dangerous Game of Mario Santiago and Roberto Bolaño”
• Pauline Julia Preisler (University of Bonn and University of St Andrews), “Theatricality and Subjectivity: Playfulness and the Construction of the Self in Novalis and Nerval”
• Tibor Bónus (Université Loránd Eötvös, Budapest), “Les Rouages de l’autoreprésentation du jeu dans deux romans hongrois du XXe siècle (Dezső Kosztolányi : Alouette ; Péter Esterházy : Trois anges me surveillent)”

Salle G363

Chair: Ana Lúcia Beck (Universidade Federal de Goiás)

• Andrea Brondino (University of Reading), “Playing with the past is a serious game: diverging approaches to rewriting history in Umberto Eco’s Il pendolo di Foucault and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code”
• Angeliki Spiropoulou (University of the Peloponnese), “Modernist Historiographical Giction: Ludics as Politics”
• Veronika Ruttkay (Károli Gáspár University Budapest), “The Gamble of Philanthropy Taking Risks and Playing the Saviour in William Godwin’s St. Leon”

Salle G366

Chair: Anne Ducrey (Sorbonne Université)

• Laurence Dahan-Gaida (université de Franche-Comté), “Le Jeu et la créativité computationnelle : de la cybernétique à l’intelligence artificielle”
• Cindy Gervolino (université de Franche-Comté), “Détournements et reconstructions du jeu de marelle et du jeu de Go dans Rayuela de Cortázar et ∈ de Roubaud”
• Josef Hrdlička (Charles University), “Herrmann Hesse’s Das Glasperlenspiel and the Play as Symbolic Representation of the World”

Salle G366

Chair: Tatjana Portnova (University of Granada, Spain)

• Angela Fabris (University of Klagenfurt),“Between Positivity, Satire, and Criticism: The Nineteenth-Century Gaze on il Lotto by Italian Storytellers and Poets”
• Marius Warholm Haugen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “The Lottery and the Culture of Divination in/as French Literature”
• Inga Henriette Undheim (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences), “Ridiculing Rapid Riches. The Lottery in Dano-Norwegian Skillings Ballads”

Salle F051

Chair: Cristina Di Maio (Università di Torino)

• Salvatore Marano (Università di Catania), “Poet’s Toy. Paul Dutton’s Plastic Typewriter”
• Serena Fusco (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”), “Frontiers of the Game? Ergodicity in/for the Global Age”
• Antonio Di Vilio (Università di Napoli “Federico II”), “’It wasn’t a game for knights.’ Liminality and Detection in Chandler’s and Hawk’s The Big Sleep”

Salle F366 

Chair: Doris Hambuch (United Arab Emirates University)

• Cao Shunqing and Liu Shishi (Sichuan University), “The Playful Penmanship of Journey to the West and Its Variations in International Dissemination”
• Fu Qilin (Sichuan University), “On Ferenc Tőkei’s Trans-Cultural Interpretation of Wen Xin Diao Long”
• Li Fei (Sichuan University), “Game, Skill and the Way of Heaven: The ‘Begging Festival’ and Cultural Ethics in Chinese Literary Tradition”
• Zhuang Peina (Sichuan University), “The Play of the Body in Classical Chinese Literature”

Salle F368

Chair: Florence Schnebelen (Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, Valenciennes)

• Corinne François-Denève (Université de Haute-Alsace, RIRH), “Jeu et jeu parodique chez Jacqueline Maillan”
• Will Noonan (Université de Bourgogne, RIRH), “De l’interactivité de la parodie : Le Régime (vidéo)ludique de The Procession to Calvarry de Joe Richardson”
• Stéphane Pouyaud (Université de Rouen), “La Parodie romanesque à travers les siècles : d’une théorie implicite du genre romanesque à une prédominance du ludique ?”
• Yen-Maï Tran-Gervat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, RIRH), “Retour théorique sur le ‘régime ludique’ de G. Genette dans Palimpsestes (1982) et étude de cas”
• Élodie Ripoll (Universität Trier), “Nodier et les jeux parodiques dans ‘Un renard pris au piège’”

E655

Chair: Francesca Manzari (Aix-Marseille Université)

• Aldo Baratta (Sapienza University of Rome), “Cheating at ‘Godgame’: Game as a Paradigm of Power in John Fowles”
• Ángela Muro Arpón (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares), “From Pawn to Queen: An Analysis of the Role of Chess in the Bildungsroman Miniseries The Queens’ Gambit”
• Filomena Vasconcelos (University of Porto), “‘Language Games’ Chess Games and ‘Simulacra’: Calvino’s Invisible Cities”

Amphi Chasles

Chair: Bernard Franco (Sorbonne University)

• Brikena Smajli, (University College, Bedër), “Play, Myth, Language(s), History, Tradition(s), Dictatorship; Odin Montvalsen by Kasem Trebeshina”
• Rosa Figueiredo (Polytechnic University of Guarda) “Power Games in Wole Soyinka’s A Play of Giants”

F671 

Chair: Georgiana Tudor Bodeanu (Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca)

• Mao Chen (Skidmore College), “Zhang Yimou’s ‘To Live’ and Textual Ambiguity: Gambling as Metaphor”
• Marek Paryz (University of Warsaw), “Playing Indian in Polish Juvenile Literature of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century”

Salle G361

Chair: Riccardo Antonangeli (Sapienza University of Rome)

• Manana Gelashvili and Tamar Gelashvili (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia), “Two Postmodern Variations of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’”
• Zeynep Aygun (Brown University), “Rivebelle’s Tables”
• Clémence Carrasco-Vaudon (université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès), “Contre mauvaise fortune bon coeur : L’Idéal mondain du beau joueur au XVIIIe siècle”
• Olga Springer (Dublin City University): “Eccentricity in German- and English-Language Literary Texts: Playing with Extra- and Intratextual Expectations”

Salle Le Verrier 

Chair: Doris Hambuch (United Arab Emirates University)

• Olga Szmidt (Jagiellonian University in Kraków), “All You Have To Do Is Pretend To Be Someone Else... Me. Role-Playing and Self-Creation in the Millennial Prose”
• Luca Diani (University of L’Aquila), “Identity, History, and Play with Childhood Memories in Umberto Eco’s La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana”
• Salvatore Renna (Università degli Studi di Torino), “The Importance of Being Eric Clipperton. Play and Postmodern condition in David Foster Wallace”

Salle G363 

Chair: Metka Zupančič (Université d’Alabama à Tuscaloosa)

• Salomé Paul (UCD, GSA) and Justine Zapin (UCD), “Playing (on) History: Joan of Arc on European Stages”
• Daniel Brandlechner (University of Vienna), “A Role-Playing Game in Search of Lost Time. Remembering the Yugoslav Wars in Barbi Marković’s Nineties Novel”
• Büşra Şengül (Boğaziçi University), “Cross-Border Crisis in Ottoman Modernization: Game and Ahmet Mithat Efendi”

Salle G366

Chair: Marta Romagnoli (Alma Mater Studiorum de Bologne)

• Kirsten von Hagen (University of Giessen), “Espaces de jeu érotico-économiques, interludes et spéculations dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle”
• Andreas Langenohl (University of Giessen), “The Economy as potlatch: The Role of Anthropologies of Serious Games in the Durkheim circle”
• Felix Hempe (University of Giessen), “Scenes of Speculation. The L’Année Sociologique and the Durkheimians”
• Marie-Theres Stickel (University of Giessen), “The Literary System: An institutionalised form of literary economic gambling?”

Salle F050

Chair: Sandor Hites (Research Center for the Humanities, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest)

• Paul Goring (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “Lottery Plot Devices on the Eighteenth-Century British Stage”
• Anne Beate Maurseth (University of Bergen), “Game, Chance, and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century’
• Michael Scham (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “Ocio, Negocio, Lotería: The Dysfunctional Relationship Between Work and Play in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Lottery Satires’

Salle F051

Chair: Salvatore Marano (Università di Catania)

• Cristina Di Maio (Università di Torino), “Poetry in Performance. Playfulness and Ambiguity in The Poet X”
• Mauro de Socio (Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo), “Playing Dress-up, Changing Reality”
• Giuliana Arcidiacono (Accademia di Belle Arti, Catania), “Dress-up, Cross-dressing, Costume performance. Avant-garde Strategies of Addressing Gender Stereotypes”

Salle F366

Chair: Zsuzsanna Varga (University of Glasgow)

• Cao Yina (Sichuan University), “The Transformation and Causes of Value in Online Games Under the Overlapping of Business Models”
• Yang Qing (Sichuan University), “Yin(隐): Language Games in The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons”
• Du Ping (Guangdong University of Finance & Economics), “Narrative Games in Mo Yan’s Novel Life and Death are Wearing Me Out”
• Wang Chao (Hainan Normal University), “Detour Discourse and Its Game Elements in Chinese Literary Theory”

Salle F368

Chair: Emilia Di Rocco (Sapienza University of Rome)

• Michal Tal (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), “A Double Play: Juan José Millás’ Playful Strategies”
• Jakub Vaněk (Charles University), “Echo and Play in And the Dogs Were Silent by Aimé Césaire and The Translator by Věra Linhartová”
• Nuño Aguirre de Cárcer (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), “Reading Severo Sarduy Parodies as a Game of Mirrors: an analysis of Maitreya Parodies of Buddhist Models” 

Salle F659

Chair: Jia Guo (Sorbonne University)

• Hélène Martinelli (ENS Lyon), “Guerre et jeu surréaliste en territoires occupés : Claude Cahun et Marianne Moore ; Toyen et Jindřich Heisler”
• Richard Müller (New York University in Prague), “Manon Lescaut as a Social Game 2.0 Model”
• Josef Šebek (Charles University, Prague), “The Social as a Game: From Mechanical Ballet to Anomie”

Salle E655

Chair: Thirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi)

• Sonya Isaak (Avignon University), “Check Mate: A Comparative Exploration of Chess in Beckett’s Fin de Partie and Frank’s The Queen's Gambit”
• Erkan GÜRPINAR and Eyüp ÖZVEREN (University of Ankara), “An Econocritical Reading of Stefan Zweig and Samuel Beckett on Chess: Domain for a Liberating Strategem or a Prisonhouse?” 
• Sivan Malberger (University of Bergen), “Encircling the Magic Circle: A Comparative Reading of The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov and Paul Auster’s The Music of Chance.”
• Armand Erchadi (Université du Luxembourg), “Le jeu d’échecs comme emblème poétique du Livre des Rois de Ferdowsi”

Amphi Chasles

Chair: Marijan Dovic (University of Ljubljana)

• Bogdan Nita (Vienna University), “Humour, Freedom, Witz, and Words in Herta Müller’s Collage Texts” 
• Andreas Kurz (University of Guanajuato), “Friedrich Schlegel’s Irony as Game and Two Examples of Its Application in Mexican Decadent Literature”

Amphi Guizot

Chair: Malgorzata Fabrycy (Sorbonne University)

• Malinka Velinova (Université de Sofia), “Le jeu du dit et du pensé au Moyen Âge : Le Monologue du personnage dans les littératures françaises, géorgiennes et arméniennes”
• Alexandra Urakova (Tampere University), “Queer Games: Cross-Dressings, Transgression and the Givenness of Gender Norms in Durova’s The Cavalry Maiden and Howe’s Hermaphrodite”

Salle G361

Chair: Veronika Ruttkay (Károli Gáspár University Budapest)

• Richard Hibbitt (University of Leeds), “The Game of Space in Franz Kafka and Anna Kavan”
• Süheyla Abanoz (Boğaziçi University), “The Hippodrome as a Game Space of Modernity”
• Lucie Laitlová (université Charles de Prague), “OULIPO et patialisme : deux manifestations d’un même jeu”

Salle Le Verrier

Chair: Emilia Di Rocco (Sapienza University of Rome)

• Sevgin Özer (Boğaziçi University), “Role-Playing, Daydreaming and Social Criticism in Sevim Burak’s Literary Texts”
• Danica Čerče (University of Ljubljana), “Gambling in Frank Hardy’s Writing and the Social Dynamics It Entails” 
• Marzia D’Amico (Universidade de Lisboa), “Empowering Playfulness and Feminist (Kill)Joy. Nonsense, Wordplay and Concretism in Giulia Niccolai’s Feminist Verbivisual Revision”
• Karsten Klein (Saarland University, Germany), “Homo Oeconomicus or Ludens? Speculation as a Game in L’argent and The Pit”

Salle G363

Chair: Olga Springer (Dublin City University)

• Elizabeth Ramsey (University of Chicago), “Troubled Play: Two Fairy Tales by Clemens Brentano and E. T. A. Hoffmann”
• Nicholas Andes (University of Chicago), “Play and Repetition in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s ‘Rat Krespel”’
• Xinyue Zhang (University of Chicago), “Little Happiness: On Play and Being Played in Kafka’s ‘Der Kreisel’ and ‘Kleine Fabel”’

Salle G366

Chair: Chloé Meynent (Sorbonne Université)

• Aleš Vaupotič (University of Nova Gorica), “Genre Rules as the Framework for Preservation and Study of New Media Literature”
• Janez Strehovec and Maja Murnik (Institute of New Media Art, Ljubljana): “A Phenomenological Approach to Gaming Worlds”
• Narvika Bovcon (University of Ljubljana): “Game Models as Sustainable Conceptual Records of New Media Artworks”

Salle F050

Chair: Nicolas Aude (Sorbonne Université)

• Elizaveta Shevchenko (CERC, Sorbonne Nouvelle), “La Scène du jeu de cartes comme métatexte dans le récit fantastique du XIX siècle”
• Rosina Neginsky (Université de l’Illinois) “Les jeux de cartes : La Dame de Pique de Pouchkine, Nid de noblesse de Tourguéniev et le tableau Les Fleurs et le jeu de cartes d’Alexandra Pregel”

Salle F051

Chair: James Underhill (Université de Rouen)

• Svetlana Malavina and Jose Luis Miras Orozco (Madrid University), “Alexander Pushkin: From Play to Mystification”
• Tatiana Victoroff (université de Strasbourg), “Les ‘Intrigues mirages’ de Gogol : Jeux et enjeux littéraires (à partir des Joueurs de Nicolas Gogol)”

Salle F366

Chair: Angeliki Spiropoulou (University of the Peloponnese)

• Vladimir Martinovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje), “Reading and Playing Football as Agon, Alea and Mimicry in the Novel The Thrombus by Olivera Nikolova”
• Jan Musil (Charles University in Prague), “Are Modern Sportspeople the New Artists? Fleißer and Musil on Aesthetics and Sport”
• Roumiana L. Stantcheva (Université de Sofia), “Beauté du corps, tennis et roman contemporain”

Salle F368

Chair: Salomé Paul (University College Dublin)

• Simona Carretta (Université pour étrangers de Pérouse), “La Littérature ou le sérieux du jeu. Italo Calvino et Milan Kundera”
• Georgiana Tudor Bodeanu (Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca), “The ‘Serious Play’ in Kazantzakis’ Christ Recrucified and J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy”
• Ana Lúcia Beck (Universidade Federal de Goiás), “All the Games You Play – Toys, Games and Playfulness in Brazilian Modern and Contemporary Art”

Salle E655 

Chair: Tatjana Portnova (University of Granada, Spain)

• Gizem Kunduraci (Eskişehir Osmangazi), “The Activity of the Reader/Visitor on the Construction and Meaning of Representational Space in the Postmodernist Playful Narrative Planes (Novel, Museum, Catalogue): Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence”
• Patricia García (Universidad de Alcalá), “Playing with Place: Ritual Games on the Urban Fringes”
• Riccardo Antonangeli (Sapienza University of Rome), “Time Games: Devotion and Divination in The Book of Hours and The Book of Fortune”

Amphi Chasles

Chair: Nicolas Aude (Sorbonne Université)

• Hu Yunhua (Sorbonne Université), “Marcel Proust et le jeu enfantin”
• Chiara Protani (Université de Bologne), “Un jeu d’enfants: Le Jeu dans l’œuvre d’Elsa Morante : réflexions et interprétations”
• Lucile Lert (Le Mans Université), “Jouer à se faire enfant”
• Malgorzata Fabrycy (Sorbonne University), “Jeux dans les romans dessinés de Dany Laferrière”

Salle F040

Chair: Jia Guo (Sorbonne University)

• Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje), “The Concepts of Literary Ludism and Ludistic Literary Strategy”
• Antonios Sarris (National and Kapodistrian, University of Athens), “Play as the Symbol of World/Literature: Kostas Axelos’ Philosophy of Play in Paul Auster’s Music of Chance”
• Guanqi Lu (University of Edinburgh), “Writing as a Game - An Exploration of Nabokov's Idea of Aesthetic Play with the Example of Pale Fire”

Salle G361

Chair: Dragos Ivana (University of Bucharest)

• Helge Daniëls (University of Leuven), “The Grammar of Oppression: Wordplay and Sarcasm in the Literary Work of the Syrian Author Muhammad al-Maghut”
• Natalia Tuliakova (independent researcher), “Old Clothes, Hats, and Odds and Ends: Charades in English Literature”
• Björn Treber (University of Minnesota), “Language Games in Elfriede Gerstl and Elfriede Jelinek”

Chair: Metka Zupančič (Université d’Alabama à Tuscaloosa)

• Lee Dylan Campbell (York University, Toronto), “Playing with the Impossible: Cortázar’s Hopscotch and Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual”
• Thameena Alam (University of Manchester), “Moves and Counter-Moves: Monopolising the Fate of a Dystopian World”
• Fatima Festić (AISSR in Amsterdam), “The Play of Play: M. J. Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time”

Salle G363

Chair: Liu Shishi (Sichuan University)

• Eszter M Polonyi (University of Nova Gorica/University of Udine), “Appropriation and Media Archaeology in the Era of AI: Early Pioneers Vuk Ćosić and Jaka Železnikar”
• Magdalena Leichter and Yana Lyapova (University of Innsbruck), “Unboxing Sadness, Sublimating Grief: Print and Digital Forms of Mourning in Anne Carson’s Nox (2010) and That Dragon, Cancer (2016) by Amy & Ryan Green”
• Davide Carnevale (Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”), “Between Book and Videogame: Text Adventures as Forms of Ergodic Narration”

Salle G366

Chair: TBC

• Maria de Fátima Outeirinho (Universidade do Porto), “L’Œuvre comme jeu, le jeu de la lecture et lecteur joueur : réflexions à partir de Jalan, Jalan d’Afonso Cruz”
• Maria Elisa Pagan (Université de São Paulo), “Le Jeu ironique dans Bouvard et Pécuchet : Flaubert se moque-t-il de ses lecteurs ?”
• Francesca De Agnoi (University of Milan), “Playing with Interpretation: Disorientation and Mystery in the Metanarrative Labyrinth of House of Leaves”

F050

Chair: Richard Hibbit (University of Leeds)

• Caroline Gondaud (chercheuse indépendante), “Jeux de perspectives : Réflexions sur l’usage de la forme épistolaire dans le roman contemporain”
• Laurence Riu-Comut (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour), “Les Tribulations du western en terre romanesque : Jeux et enjeux des relations intermédiales entre cinéma de genre et roman contemporain (États-Unis, France)”

Salle F051

Chair: Dana Steglich (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

• Marta Romagnoli (Alma Mater Studiorum de Bologne), “‘A Rather Dicey Play’: L’Intrigue comme pièce de théâtre dans Murdoch, Ortese, Shakespeare”
• Teresa Rosell Nicolás (Universitat de Barcelona), “‘Me to Play’: Beckett’s Metatheatrical Closure in the Game of Drama”
• Myriam Di Maio (University of Verona), “The Game Within the Play. Ludic Metaphors in Henry V and The Tempest”
• Ellen Dengel-Janic (University of Tübingen), “Gambling and Play in Eighteenth-Century Theatre Culture: A Reading of Susanna Centlivre’s The Basset Table (1705)”

Salle F366

Chair: Olga Springer (Dublin City University)

• Marko Juvan (ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana), “The Luddite in Ludism: Literary Play as the Destruction of the Ideological State Apparatuses”
• Marijan Dović (ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana), “Play in the Visual and Concrete Poetry of the Slovenian and Yugoslavian Avant-Garde”
• Lucija Mandić (ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana), “Play as Provocation: Czech and Slovenian Experimental Literature in the 1960s”

Salle F368

Chair: Rosa Mucignat (King’s College London)

• Kayvan Tahmasebian (University of London), “Khāqānī’s Aleatory Aesthetics: The Six Deadlocks of the Times (Shesh-dar-e ayyām) and the Undotted Dice (kaʿbatayn-i bī-naqsh)”
• Steffen Wöll (Leipzig University), “Rolling the Dice with Cthulhu: Exploring Lovecraftian Play Spaces in the Arkham Horror Tabletop RPG”
• Manvi Singh (Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi), “Symbolism and Moral Allegories of the Game of Dice in Ancient Indian Literature”

Bibliothèque Ascoli - TBC

Chair: Enrica Zanin (University of Strasbourg)

• Guiomar Hautcoeur (Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot), “Play and its Role in Don Quixote: The Literary Stakes of Mimesis and Fiction?”
• Natália Pikli (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), “Forms of Narratives in Early Modern English Lotteries: The Game and the Story”
• Karin Kukkonen (Oslo University), “Games, Play and the Novel: Playing ‘Le Jeu du Roman’ (1701)”

Salle E655

Chair: Salomé Paul (University College Dublin)

• Rumeysa Oğuz (Ibn Haldun University), “Detectives, Machines, Chess: The Intermingled Roots of Chess and Detective Fiction from Edgar Allan Poe to Şebnem Şenyener”
• Francesca Manzari (Aix-Marseille Université), “Le Grand Chant et le jeu d’échecs : Nouvelles perspectives apportées par la dimension traduisante”
• Bernard Franco (Sorbonne Université) “Le Jeu d’échecs, de la métaphore de la littérature au principe d’écriture”
• Alain Montandon (Université Clermont Auvergne), “Le Personnage du joueur dans la trame échiquéenne”

Amphi Chasles

Chair: Emilia Di Rocco (Sapienza Università di Roma)

• Carmen Armenteros Puchades (Sapienza University of Rome), “Interrupted City. The Playful Artist as a Pursuer of Urban Narratives”
• Antoaneta Robova (Université de Sofia), “(En)jeux de la mémoire et détours nostalgiques: Le Pays du passé, Good Bye, Lenin, Le livre du rire et de l’oubli”
• Steen Bille Jørgensen (Université d’Aarhus), “L’Écrivain (oulipien) dans l’espace public – Interventions ludiques entre Paris et Copenhague”

Salle F671

Chair: Dana Steglich (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

• Md Asif Kamal (American International University-Bangladesh), “Modernism and Predicament of Outsiderism in the Puppet Protagonists of Manik Bandopadhya’s Novels”
• Maria Luiza Berwanger da Silva (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), “Jeu, Inouï et réenchantement: Perspective choisie : La Première approche du jeu comme relation thématique”
• Alexandra Juster (University of Innsbruck), “Le ‘Jeu’ dans Corpus Delicti et Über Menschen de Juli Zeh”

Salle G361

Chair: Angeliki Spiropoulou (University of the Peloponnese)

• Hüsna Baka (Boğaziçi University), “Storytelling as a Game in Ihsan Oktay Anar’s Efrâsiyâb’ın Hikâyeleri”
• Jia Guo (Sorbonne University): “Brothers: un jeu carnavalesque”

Salle Le Verrier

Chair: Federico Bertoni (Université de Bologne)

• Mariia PSHENICHNIKOVA (Université de Lorraine), “Jeux de mots et de morphèmes dans la littérature futuriste russe et leur traduction française”
• Sieghild Bogumil-Notz (Université de la Ruhr de Bochum), “Jeu, jeu de langage, poésie et communication”
• Gema Domínguez-González (University of Alcalá), “Games to Overcome the Language Barrier in Irene Vallejo’s The Bowman’s Whistle”

Salle G363

Chair: James Underhill (Université de Rouen)

• Hysni Kafazi (University of Szeged), “The Gambler’s Anguish: An Existentialist Reading of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek’s Drama”
• Deise Quintiliano (Université de l’État de Rio de Janeiro), “Les Jeux ne sont jamais faits”
• Camille Rousseau (Sorbonne Université) “La Loterie : Degré zéro du jeu et spéculation narrative”

Salle G366

Chair: Florence Schnebelen (Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, Valenciennes)

• Paolo Dias Fernandes (CELIS, Université Clermont-Auvergne) et Marine Baugé (CERCL, Lyon), “Le Jeu vidéo comme œuvre littéraire : Les Littératures et le narrative design”
• Tünde VARGA and Tamás SÜLE Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest), “Multimedial Games: Calvino’s The Castle of Crossed Destinies and its Influence on an Experimental Artistic Project, Metadia (2023)”
• Lan Dong (University of Illinois Springfield), “Gaming In/Between Panels: Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes’s Secret Coders”

Salle F050

Chair: Riccardo Antonangeli (Sapienza University of Rome)

• Dragoș IVANA (University of Bucharest), “Readers as Fictional Game Players: The “Billiards Table” Trope in Cervantes’s Novelas Ejemplares”
• Edmund Chapman (Maynooth University), “Reading, Decoding and Hidden Knowledge: Conspiratorial Reading Against Antisemitism”

Salle F051

Chair: Patricia Garcia (Universidad de Alcalá)

• Milène Lang (Sorbonne Université) “La Nouvelle de l’artiste : Le Genre littéraire comme un jeu”
• Ömer Rafi Çiçek (Boğaziçi University) and Kudret Dereli (Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa), “Tracing Oral Tradition and Performing in the 15th-Century Manuscripts: A case of Turkish Epics”
• Rosanne Bezerra de Araújo (Université Fédérale de Rio Grande do Norte), “La Poésie comme jeu dans l'œuvre de João Cabral de Melo Neto”

F366

Chair: Orsolya Milian (University of Szeged)

• Sofija Todorović (University of Belgrade), “Mimicking the Stage: Ludic Elements in Thomas Bernhard’s Minetti”
• Gerald David Naughton (University of Sharjah, UAE), “Authenticity, Performativity, and Play in Percival Everett’s Erasure and James McBride’s Good Lord Bird”

Salle F368

Chair: Hannah Freundlich (University of Oslo)

 The participants are invited to play the games studied during the morning while engaging in a conversation about the rules of these games.

E655

 Chair: Veronika Ruttkay (Elte University Budapest)

• Pirjo Suvilehto (University of Oulu), “Philosophical Perspectives on Tove Jansson’s Fantastic Stories of Moomins Through Walter Benjamin’s Ideas of Play and Playfulness”
• Aba-Carina Parlog (West University of Timişoara), “Neurosis and Conviviality in Margaret Atwood: The Game of Little Girls”
• Orsolya Milián (University of Szeged), “’00111100 00111110’: Gamer Fictions in 21st Century Hungarian Literature”

Amphi Chasles

Chair: Malgorzata Fabrycy (Sorbonne University)

• Leonor Martins Coelho (Universidade da Madeira/Universidade de Lisboa - CEComp), “La Plus secrète mémoire des hommes, de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: La Littérature comme un jeu combinatoire”
• Henri Garric (Université de Bourgogne), “Le Jeu comme paradigme du récit chez Walter Benjamin et Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio”
• Cătălin Constantinescu (University of Iași), “Beckett’s Questioning of Play. Waiting for Godot and Endgame as Ludic Experiences”

Salle F671

Chair: Natascha Adamowski (Université de Passau) TBC

• Ruike Han (Université Clermont Auvergne), “Le Jeu de vies et le jeu de mots. Étude comparative des Particules élémentaires de Michel Houellebecq et Brothers de Yu Hua”
• Doris Hambuch (United Arab Emirates University), “Zeina Hashem Beck’s Language Games: O”
• Swann Spies (chercheur indépendant), “‘Comme les rois qui sont peints sur les cartes à jouer’: Le Jeu imprévisible de la conversation littéraire”

Salle G361

Chair: Patricia Garcia (Universidad de Alcalá)

• Erika Paula De Matos (Universidade São Judas Tadeu), “Play and Learn: Political Ideas in Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities”
• Carlotta Santini (CNRS / ENS), “Les Racines épistémologiques du jeu et la genèse des images mentales. Leo Frobenius et la culture comme Paideuma”
• Chloé Meynent (Sorbonne Université), “La Peau de Chagrin : Le Jeu et sa signification philosophique dans un roman d’apprentissage”

Salle Le Verrier

Chair: Irène Gayraud (Sorbonne Université) 

• José Luis Arráez (Université d’Alicante, Espagne), “La Masculinité hégémonique des épurateurs du ‘carnaval moche’ (1943-1945) démasquée à travers l'AT : Du je protestataire au jeu épurateur”
• Vera Gajiu (Université de Turin, Italie), “Le ‘je’ en ‘jeu’ : Violences et mascarades sociales chez Jean-Luc Lagarce, Didier Eribon et Édouard Louis”
• Diana Mistreanu (Université de Passau, Allemagne), “Des jeux, des hommes et des fantômes : Fragilité et masculinité dans l’œuvre de Patrick Modiano”

Salle F050

Chair: Chair: Zsuzsanna Varga (University of Glasgow)

• Tatjana Portnova and Tamara Gorozhankina (University of Granada, Spain), “Russian Folk Games in Classic Literature: Analysis of Translation Strategies into Spanish”
• James W. Underhill (Université Rouen-Normandie), “Translating Fun & Games”
• Rosa Mucignat (King’s College London) “Radical Language-Games: Translation in the Italian Republican Triennium (1796-1799)”

Salle F051

Chair: Rosanne Gallenne (University College Dublin)

• Johanne Mohs (Technische Universität Berlin), “Hidden Mastery: Machines as Masks in Italo Calvino’s Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore”
• Mattia Bonasia (Sapienza Università di Roma – Sorbonne Université), “Pour une ligne Cervantes-Rabelais du roman contemporain. Mahagony (1987) d’Édouard Glissant et Quichotte (2019) de Salman Rushdie”
• María Luz Gracia Gaspar (University of Lille), “The ‘Iconographic Game’ in Don Quixote: The Interpretative Diversity of Illustrated Editions in France, Spain and England during the 19th century”

Salle F366

 Chair: Jia Guo (Sorbonne University)

• Olivier Guionaud (UPPA), “Y a-t-il une place pour le jeu d’ilinx dans la lecture ?”
• Gabriela Lobosque (Sorbonne Université): “Le Risque du jeu dans Dom Casmurro de Machado de Assis”
• Dana Steglich (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), “Decision-Maker. On The Relationship Between Gamebooks and Their Readers”

Salle F368

Chair: Richard Hibbit (University of Leeds)

• Meritxell Joan (Université Pompeu Fabra), “On ne joue pas avec la langue : Tordre le français pour accueillir l’expérience harki”
• Hélène Rufat (Université Pompeu Fabra), “Jeu subtil vs jeu choquant : Les Aberrations du français dans L’Anomalie (Le Tellier) et Pas pleurer (Salvayre) ... au service de l’empathie”
• Metka Zupančič (Université d’Alabama à Tuscaloosa), “Les Jeux littéraires et leurs anomalies : Hervé Le Tellier, L’Anomalie, et Claude Simon, Triptyque”