Associazione Giochi Antichi organizes every year conferences and meetings with the most distinguished Italian and international scholars.
Our guests in previous editions:
Alberto Schön
Neurologist, member of the "Italian Psychoanalysts Society"
Narrazioni 2010
Alessandro Anderloni
Lessinia Film Festival Director
Narrazioni 2010; Narrazioni 2011
Amilcare Acerbi
Head of GioNa
Conference: "National GioNa Assembly" 2008: conference: "GioNa Association" 2009; conference: "Game from present to future - The role of the school" 2010
Andrea Fazioli
Author and Television Writer
Narrazioni 2010
Anna Cinque
Journalist
Conference: "Confidential story of a friend" 2009; conference: "Learning through play" 2010
Anna Oliverio Ferraris
Professor of Development Psychology at Università La Sapienza, Roma
Narrazioni 2011
Antonio Ballista
Musician
Narrazioni 2009
Antonio Di Pietro
Head of C.E.M.E.A.
Conference: "Street Game: yesterday and today" 2004
Barbara Schiaffino
Andersen magazine director
Conference: "Confidential story of a friend" 2009
Beba Restelli
Author and populizer of the Bruno Munari method
Conference: "Tree of desires" 2011
Beniamino Sidoti
Game expert
Conference: "Learning through play" 2010; conference: "A tribute to Gianni Rodari" 2010
Bruno Canino
Musician
Narrazioni 2009
Bruno D'Amore
Mathematician, author and philosopher
Conference: "Checkers and Brain-teasing: Dante and his times" 2007
Carlo Grande
Writer
Narrazioni 2010
Carlo Mazzacurati
Director
Narrazioni 2008; Narrazioni 2011
Catherine Dolto
Pediatrician and psychotherapist, President of the “Association Archives et Documentations Françoise Dolto”Conferenza: "A tribute to Françoise Dolto" 2011
Chuchchai Gomaratut
Professor at the University Chulalongkorn of Bangkok, Thailand
Conference: "Traditional Game Heritage of Humanity" 2011
Daniele Novara
Founder and director of "Psychopedagogic Center for Peace and Attrition Management"
Conference: "Playing with arguments" 2011
Dario De Toffoli
Writer
Conference: "Confidential story of a friend" 2009
Davide Zoletto
General Pedagogy Researcher at the University of Udine, Professor and editor of the magazine “Aut Aut”
Narrazioni 2009
Duccio Demetrio
Professor of Education and Training and Autobiography at the Milano-Bicocca University
Narrazioni 2008, Narrazioni 2009; Narrazioni 2011
Elisabetta Marchiori
Psychiatrist and member of the Italian Psychoanalytic society
Narrazioni 2010
Emanuele Ferrari
Musicology and Music History Researcher at the Milano-Bicocca University
Narrazioni 2011
Ennio Peres
"Game expert" and writer
Conference: "Learning through play" 2010
Enzo Scandurra
Professor at Università La Sapienza, Rome
Conference: "The other city; reflections and strategies for urban spaces" 2008
Ewan Morrison
Television writer, author
Narrazioni 2008
Ezzedine Bouzid
President of the Tunisian Association of Traditional Sports and Games
Conference: "Traditional Game Heritage of Humanity" 2011
Fernando Maestro
Director of the Traditional Game Museum (Campo, Aragona)
Conference: "Game and integration" 2006, conference: "Competences at play" 2008
Francesco Careri
University researcher, founding member of Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade "Savrengo ker-la casa di tutti"
Conference: "The other city; reflections and strategies for urban spaces" 2008
Franco Pajno Ferrara
Neuropsychiatrist, psychotherapist, trainer and creator of the psychotropic educational project "Il laboratorio dell'immaginario"
Conference: "Marcondirondirondello chi gioca nel mio castello?" 2006; Narrazioni 2010; Conference: "Games of the World" 2011
Furio Honsell
Udine Mayor
Conferenza: "GioNa Association" 2009
Gianfranco Staccioli
Professor of Game Method at the University of Florence
Conference: "Learning through play" 2010
Gianluigi Bravo
Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and History of cities at the University of Turin
Conference: "Intangible Heritage" 2008
Goffredo Fofi
Literary, teathre and cinema critic
Conference: "Confidential Story of a Friend" 2009
Gregorio Ramos Melo
President of the Mexican Federation of Native and Traditional Games
Conference: "Traditional Game Intangible Heritage" 2011
Gualtiero Schiaffino
Director of the magazine “Andersen”
Conference: "Real space and digital reality: how game and its representation change" 2007
Guido Salvetti
Pianist e musicologist, President of the Italian Musicological Society
Narrazioni 2010
Gustavo Pietropolli Charmet
Psychiatrist and Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Milan
Conference: "Tribute to Françoise Dolto" 2011
Guy Jaouen
President of the European Association of Traditional Sports and Games
Conference: "Trip through Europe traditional games" 2007; conference: "Teaching with traditional game" 2009; conference: "Traditional Game, Culture and Education" 2010
Iain Banks
Writer
Narrazioni 2008
Jean-Pierre Rossie
Researcher at the Jouet Museum, Moirans-en-Montagne
Conference: "Around Italy in 150 games; study, research, and experience" 2011
Joao Francisco Ribas
Professor at the Santa Maria Federal University, Brasil
Conferenza: "Traditional Game Heritage of Humanity" 2011
Lorenzo Cremonesi
Journalist, "Corriere della Sera" special correspondent
Narrazioni 2010
Loretta Napoleoni
Economist, BBC and CNN consultant, correspondent for several important papers , expert on terrorism
Narrazioni 2009
Marc Augé
Anthropologist, founder of the Anthropology of Supermodernity and Director of the Ecole des hautes ètudes en science sociales
Narrazioni 2010
Marco Albino Ferrari
Journalist and writer, founder of the journal "Meridiani Montagne"
Narrazioni 2010
Marco Fittà
Game historian, essayist
Conference: "Ars et ludus" 2005
Maria Carla Rizzolo
Head of Turin’s Game Culture Center
Conference: "Game L to R - from learning to recreation" 2005; conference: "Games from present to future - the role of schools" 2010
Matteo Schubert
Alterstudio partners, Coop ABCittà, Milano
Conferenza: "Playing in cities" 2005; conference: "Designing for and with children" 2006
Mauro Caldera
Didactic and creative pedagogist
Conference: "Learning through play" 2010
Michael Obrist
Professor at Lunz University of the Arts, Austria
Conference: "The other city; reflections and strategies for urban spaces" 2008
Nicla Jacovino
Sociologist and director of the journal "Tangram"
Conference: Street Games: yesterday and today" 2004
Paolo Apolito
Antropologist , Professor of Literature and Philosophy
Conference: "Italian Network of Pop Oral Culture" 2009
Paolo Rumiz
Journalist, writer, columnist for “La Repubblica”
Conference: "Travel as a treasure hunt" 2007; Narrazioni 2010
Pap Khouma
Writer, librarian, editor in chief of the online journal "El Ghibli"
Narrazioni 2008
Pere Lavega i Burgués
Professor at the University of Lleida, Spain
Conference: "Traditional Game, culture and education" 2010
Pier Aldo Rovatti
Professor of Theoretical and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Trieste
Narrazioni 2010
Pierino Daudry
Traditional Game expert
Conference: "An historical overview of Italian games" 2007
Pierre Parlebas
Presidente CEMEA Francia, Professore emerito presso l'Università della Sorbona di Parigi
Conference: "Teaching with traditional game" 2009
Pinuccia Dossena
Writer and translator of books on games
Conference: "Confidential story of a friend" 2009; Narrazioni 2011
Quirino Principe
Musicologist, Germanist, playwright, Professor of Music Philosophy at the University of Rome
Narrazioni 2008
Ricardo Navacerrada
Coordinator of the Traditional Sport and Game Association, Madrid
Conference: "Competences at play" 2008
Roberto Denti
Founder of the "Kids Library", Milan
“A Tribute to Gianni Rodari" 2010
Roberto Piumini
Writer, poet, television writer
Narrazioni 2010
Sergio Valzania
Journalist and television writer
Conferenza: "Confidential story of a friend" 2009
Stefano De Siena
Archaeologist
Conference: "Games in ancient times" 2009
Stefano Bartezzaghi
Journalist and writer, Professor of Semiotics of riddles at I.U.L.M.
Conference: "Confidential story of a friend" 2009; Narrazioni 2011
Umberto Curi
Professor of Medieval History at the University of Verona
Narrazioni 2009
Vassiliki Nika
Responsible of the Observatory on Media Education at the University of Athens and vice-president of the Greek section of IBBY
Narrazioni 2009