Last days to participate in the call for the Gaetano Cozzi Award for unpublished essays on the history of gaming. The documents must be sent to the address [email protected] by Monday 18 March 2024. Papers written in French, English, Italian, Spanish or German are eligible.
I am again this year two prizes of 3.000 euros each destined by the Benetton Studi Ricerche Foundation to young scholars of any nationality, born in 1988 and following, for unpublished and original essays and studies on the history of gaming, free time, celebration, sport and, in general, playfulnessThe chronological scope taken into consideration goes from the ancient world to the Second World War.
The judging commission, which coincides with the scientific committee of the Benetton Studi Ricerche Foundation magazine «Ludica. Annals of history and civilization of the game", will evaluate the submitted papers at its sole discretion and will notify the winners no later than Tuesday 18 June 2024. The Commission also reserves the right to highlight other particularly deserving essays with "honorable mention".
The awarded works will be published in the original language in the international magazine «Ludica», edited and published by the Foundation, and which has been published in co-edition with Viella since 1995. Other texts judged suitable for publication may also find space in the same magazine, and which have not received the prize money.
The initiative of Gaetano Cozzi Award is part of the research, documentation and edition activities dedicated by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche for over thirty years to history of playfulness in its various manifestations. The award, launched in 2016, is named in memory of Professor Gaetano Cozzi (1922-2001), who since the foundation's inception promoted a special interest in research on the part of young scholars in this field of study. From 2001 to 2015 the "Gaetano Cozzi scholarships for degree theses on the history of the game" were named after him, previously dedicated, from 1988 to 2000, to the memory of Stefano Benetton (1967-1985).
Judging commission e Scientific committee of the journal «Ludica»:
Gherardo Ortalli (Veneto Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Venice; president), Alessandro Arcangeli (University of Verona), Maurice Aymard (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Élisabeth Belmas (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord), Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge), Piero Del Negro (University of Padua), Thierry Depaulis (The International Playing-Card Society), Angela Fabris (Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Jaser (Universität Klagenfurt), John McClelland (University of Toronto) , Alessandra Rizzi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Bernd Roeck (Universität Zürich).
For more information:
Benetton Research Studies Foundation, T 0422 5121, [email protected], www.fbsr.it
Playful. Annals of history and civilization of the game
directed by Gherardo Ortalli
The magazine, published since 1995 by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche (in collaboration with the publisher Viella), aims to be a contribution to reflection on the characteristics and values assumed by "game things" over the centuries. Tackling that playful dimension often overlooked by historiography but an essential component of the human story, «Ludica» collects interventions of a varied nature in terms of nature, content, but above all for the multiple observation points, at the intersection between different fields of research, with particular attention to historical, cultural and social contexts.
Even the choice of the centuries examined by the studies (between late antiquity and the beginning of the XNUMXth century) aims to fill a traditional gap in the field of reflection on the history of the game, especially aimed at the investigation of play classics or contemporary sports. Contributions are normally published in the original language, accompanied by abstracts in three languages, so as to respond to the needs of the international panorama of studies, offering an opportunity for relationships and exchanges.
Playful necklace
directed by Gherardo Ortalli and Alessandra Rizzi
In addition to the «Ludica» magazine, the Foundation publishes the homonymous “Ludica” series which gives space to contributions of particular breadth, meaning and density in the field of the history of play, free time, celebrations; contributions that arise mostly from the results of research directly promoted and coordinated by the Foundation.
The objective is the investigation of the role of ludicrousness in different contexts, starting from the assumption that the "game" component is irrepressible in historical events and re-emerges even in the most difficult and unexpected situations. In recovering the complexity and articulation of the playful universe, special attention should be paid to that past - up to the first half of the XNUMXth century - which experimented with different forms and, at the same time, laid the foundations of the modern "gaming civilization".
Among the most recent titles: Matteo Sartori, The game and the short stories between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; Nicholas Sbetti, diplomatic games. Sport and foreign policy in post-war Italy; Playing between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. Ethical and aesthetic models for Europe, edited by Francesca Aceto and Francesco Lucioli; lotteries, lotto, slot machines. The gamble of the draw: history of games of chance, edited by Gherardo Ortalli (Italian/English bilingual edition); John Assereto, A game so useful to public revenue. Il lotto of Genoa from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth century; Play statute. The laws on gaming in communal Italy (XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries), edited by Alessandra Rizzi (Italian/English bilingual edition).
