Games & Play, “37th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium”

The 2024 Graduate Association of French and Italian Students (GAFIS) Symposium will be held on the April 5th and 6th at the Pyle Center. The theme this year will focus on the notions of games and play, and how they intersect not only with the study of literature, but also of film, theatre and many others. Games and play are omnipresent in human society and take innumerable forms. Questions surrounding the role of play and games have generated much theoretical debate from which various perspectiv