PROGRAMME OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
OF THE YOUNG SLAVISTS COLLECTIVE
*jьgra: Getting Serious about Play
18–19–20 June 2025
University of Naples L’Orientale
Room 1.1, Palazzo del Mediterraneo, Via Nuova Marina 59
PROGRAMME OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
OF THE YOUNG SLAVISTS COLLECTIVE
*jьgra: Getting Serious about Play
18–19–20 June 2025
University of Naples L’Orientale
Room 1.1, Palazzo del Mediterraneo, Via Nuova Marina 59
Wednesday, 18 June
9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:30 Institutional Greetings
10:30 – 11:30
Keynote prof. Marina di Filippo (University of Naples L’Orientale)
“Lo skaz e il gioco delle parti” [Skaz and the Role Play]
Chair: Annalisa Di Santo
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00
First Panel – Play in Media and Linguistic Strategies
Chairs: Ilenia Del Popolo Marchitto, Annalisa Di Santo
Giovanni Polizzi (Sapienza University of Rome – Charles University in Prague), Antiproverbi nella pubblicistica ceca: la forza creativa del gioco [Antiproverbs in Czech Journalism: The Creative Power of Play]
Iryna Shylnikova (University of Salento), I giochi paraletterari per una rilettura critica e inclusiva del patrimonio letterario ucraino [Paraliterary Games for a Critical and Inclusive Reinterpretation of the Ukrainian Classical Literature]
13:00 – 14:45 Lunch break
15:00 – 16:00
Second Panel – Didactic Methods
Chairs: Ilenia Del Popolo Marchitto, Federico Piccolo
Filippo Bazzocchi (University of Udine – University of Trieste), L’approccio integrato come nuovo strumento per l’acquisizione generale della polisemia dei prefissi verbali russi: proposte ludodidattiche [The “Integrated Approach” as a New Tool for Studying the Polysemy of Russian Verbal Prefixes: Suggestions by Means of Teaching through Play]
Karin Plattner (University of Udine – University of Trieste), Quadrato Culturale T.E.T.R.I.S.S.: Giocare la cultura – in traduzione [Quadrato Culturale T.E.T.R.I.S.S.: Playing culture – in Translation]
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:15
Third Panel – Literature, Cinema and Theatre
Chairs: Sara Gargano, Virginia Pili
Martina Greco (University of Padua), Il gioco della guerra in Mifogennaja ljubov’ kast di S. Anufriev e P. Pepperštejn [The Game of War in Mifogennaja ljubov’ kast by S. Anufriev and P. Pepperštejn]
Benedetta D’Egidio (D’Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara), L’isola incerta di Kira Muratova, per un’analisi di Večnoe vozvraščenie (2012) [Kira Muratova’s Uncertain Islet, an Analysis of Večnoe vozvraščenie (2012)]
Fiona Di Gennaro (Roma Tre University), K igrovomu teatru: gioco e recitazione, assi del medesimo palcoscenico [K igrovomu teatru: Play and Acting, Planks of the Same Stage]
Thursday, 19 June
10:00 – 10:30 Registration
10:30 – 11:30
Keynote prof. Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University of London)
“Playfully Serious: A Very Short History of Translation”
Chair: Martina Mecco
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45
Fourth Panel – The 18th Century
Chairs: Iris Karafillidis, Iris Uccello
Angelica Fascella (University of Pavia), Virtuous vs. Naughty Kids: The Role of Play in A.S. Shishkov’s Detskaya Biblioteka and Eighteenth-Century Russian Children’s Literature
Jemma Paek (Harvard University), Play-acting the Carnival: The Polemic between Vsyakaya vsyachina and Truten’ as Transparent Masquerade
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:30
Fifth Panel – The 19th Century
Chairs: Maria Teresa Badolati, Iris Uccello
Serena Fanizza (Sapienza University of Rome), L’inganno del gioco: la raffigurazione dell’ebreo e gli stereotipi nella favola di Dal’ [The Deception of the Game: The Jew and the Stereotypes in Dal’s Folktale]
Anna Sokolova (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Vissarion Belinskij e Lastivka: quando le parole diventano armi [Vissarion Belinsky and the Lastivka Almanac: A Wordplay against the Ukrainian Language]
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 18:15
Sixth Panel – Media Studies and Videogames
Chairs: Martina Mecco, Monica Puglia
Marco Jakovljević (University of Zagreb), “Serbus, Zagreb”: An Imagological Analysis of the Croatian Satirical Comedy Channel OTV in the Early 1990s
Martin Simota (Charles University in Prague), Hudební pole jako hra: Folkové písničkářství v rámci teorie sociálních polí [The Music Field as a Game: Czech Folk Songwriting within Social Field Theory]
Sara Manzi (University of Pisa), “Open up and Look at the Conceptualism inside!”: On the Ludic Principle in the Project Kommunizm
Anton Romanenko (Charles University in Prague), Narrative and Lyrical Structures in Videogames
Cullan Bendig (Independent Researcher), Closely Played Games: The Language of Authenticity and Resonance around Slavic Digital Historical Games
20:30 Social Dinner
Friday, 20 June
10:00 – 10:15 Registration
10:15 – 11:30
Seventh Panel – Balkan Studies
Chairs: Martina Mecco, Federico Piccolo
Enrico Davanzo (D’Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara), Đerzelez’s Run and the Arab’s Ghost. Play in the Narrative Writings of Ivo Andrić
Sofija Todorović (University of Belgrade), De-romanticizing the Children’s Game: Ludic Amorality in Ivo Andrić’s Short Story Collection Children
Nemanja Marjanović (University of Belgrade), Demonski ples (igra) u pesničkoj zbirci Evrospka noć Stanislava Vinavera [Demonic Dance (Play) in the Poem Collection European Night by Stanislav Vinaver]
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45
Eighth Panel - Language and Play
Chairs: Ilenia Del Popolo Marchitto, Annalisa Di Santo
Tiziana Di Felice (Sapienza University of Rome – Charles University in Prague), Le regole del gioco del pletenie sloves (intreccio di parole) nell’agiografia serba dei secoli XIII-XIV [The Rules of the Game of the Pletenie Sloves (Word-Weaving Style) in the Serbian Hagiography of the 13th and 14th Centuries]
Natalia Siereda (Tallinn University), Code-switching Seen as a Language Game – Polish-English Code-switching Strategies when Discussing Games in “Podcastex”
12:45 – 13:15 Final Discussion and Conclusions
Scientific Board
Alessandro Achilli, Associate Professor, SLAV-01/A, University of Cagliari
Guido Carpi, Full Professor, SLAV-01/A, University of Naples L’Orientale
Matteo Colombi, Research Fellow, SLAV-01/A, Universität Leipzig
Andrea De Carlo, Associate Professor, SLAV-01/A, University of Naples L’Orientale
Olga Inkova, Associate Professor, SLAV-01/A, Université de Genève
Rosanna Morabito, Associate Professor, SLAV-01/A, University of Naples L’Orientale
Krassimir Stantchev, Full Professor, SLAV-01/A, Roma Tre University – Ambrosian Academy (Milan)
Coordinators of the Organising Committee
Guido Carpi, Full Professor, SLAV-01/A, University of Naples L’Orientale
Marina di Filippo, Associate Professor, SLAV-01/A, University of Naples L’Orientale
Organising Committee
Maria Teresa Badolati, Sapienza University of Rome
Rossella Caria, Independent Researcher
Luca Cortesi, University of Pavia
Ilenia Del Popolo Marchitto, Tallinn University
Annalisa Di Santo, University of Naples L’Orientale
Noemi Fregara, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Sara Gargano, Tuscia University – University of Rome Tor Vergata
Giulia Gallo, Sapienza University of Rome
Iris Karafillidis, University of Milan, University of Florence
Martina Mecco, MODERNITAS (MSH) - Université libre de Bruxelles
Erika Parotti, University of Milan
Federico Piccolo, University of Palermo
Virginia Pili, University of Florence
Monica Puglia, University of Sassari
Marta Riparante, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – University of Bari
Domenico Scagliusi, Sorbonne Université
Iris Uccello, University of Verona