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“Les mille premiers jours dans l’Antiquité classique”

Dans le cadre de l’exposition “Grandir dans l’Antiquité”, la Fondation Hardt a le plaisir de recevoir Véronique Dasen, professeure ordinaire d’archéologie à l’Université de Fribourg, pour une conférence intitulée: “Les mille premiers jours dans l’Antiquité classique”

Véronique Dasen will deliver the FIEC 75th Anniversary online lecture

Thursday October 24 (19:00), Véronique Dasen will deliver a talk for the FIEC 75th anniversary online lectures series. She will present the results of Locus Ludi. The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity, the five-year research project supported by the ERC Advanced Grant (# 741520). This project aimed at generating a new vision of ancient Greek and Roman societies thanks to a pluridisciplinary and comparative approach of ancient sources (written, archaeological, iconographic). 1) Texts: reconstructing a lost heritage relating to play and education, ancient games and their rules, based on revising Greek and Latin literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources, associated with new translations in the form of a commented edition of Pollux, Onomasticon, Book 9 and of an Anthology. 2) Archaeology: Play, identity, sociability and religion, based on the spatial distribution of game remains according to chronology, typology, and context on selected sites, settlements, cemeteries, sanctuaries, creating a reference typology, revising mistaken identifications. The identity of the players and the function of the games were analysed according to context, domestic, public, sacred, funerary, in the search also of the symbolic, religious or identity functions. 3) Iconography: like music and musical instruments, games too were categorized as male or female by the ancients. The task focused on the gender construction of children and youths through play and games, and on the ludic interaction of women and men, comparing Greek and Roman iconography, realities and representations. The lecture will address the risks, the gains and the methodological issues of such ambitious enterprise. More about: www.locusludi.ch Zoom link:https://fiecnet.org/75-years-fiec Introduced by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniakhttps://www.facebook.com/OurMythicalChildhoodhttps://modernargonauts.al.uw.edu.pl/

An International Research Network on Board Games

CA22145 – Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (GameTable) Locus Ludi members Véronique Dasen (PI), Barbara Carè and Ulrich Schaedler (Senior researchers) are part of the GameTable network, an international and interdisciplinary network of scholars and stakeholders from all career stages across academia, industry, and heritage institutions exploring methodologies and applications on how to use game AI to study, reconstruct, and preserve the intangible cultural heritage of games.  Switzerland is represented in the action also by Prof. Yannick Rochat (University of Lausanne), Prof. Sylvian Fachard (University of Lausanne), Dr. Selim Krichane (Swiss Museum of Games) and Mr Thierry Depaulis. Prof. Véronique Dasen and Prof. Yannick Rochat are members of the Management Committee (MC) of the COST Action. Dr Barbara Carè is co-leader of WG 5 Implementation, Dissemination, and Education. https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22145/#tabs+Name:Description https://gametable.network/index-about.html

Jouer dans l’antiquité et aux temps modernes

De jeu et d’astragales Pendant son séjour de recherche au Trendall Centre de l’Université La Trobe à Melbourne (Mai 2024), Dr Barbara Carè a été interviewée par Manuela Rispoli de SBS Italian, le programme en langue italienne de Radio SBS, pour parler de jeu, d’astragales et de patrimoine immatériel. Voici le podcast: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/italian/it/podcast-episode/astragali/dpwbnkpqf