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WS The (Academic) Game of the Goose: Storytelling, Gaming, and Flex(st)abilty in Doctoral Paths Developments

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Oct 16, 2024 from 02:00 to 03:30 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)

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MFR (GCSC)

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“It is the goose!” Orlando cried. “The wild goose….”

Woolf, Orlando, 1928

The ‘Game of the Goose’ is a popular board game in various cultures: participants roll dice to move pieces along a spiral path, encountering obstacles and aids as they progress toward the finish. This game serves as a useful metaphor for one’s academic journey, where career paths often face unexpected twists and turns, with both supports and challenges to navigate. Building on this concept, this workshop aims to foster forward-looking reflection on the development of one’s doctoral/academic trajectory through a collective and self-reflective gaming activity.

   The first part of the workshop (30 minutes) is dedicated to illustrating a prototype pre-designed board adaptation of the ‘Game of the Goose’ for the academic context. This will serve as the storytelling framework for an alumnus of the GCSC and IPP/PhDNet programme (Stefano Rozzoni, the workshop’s lecturer) to share his experience: the journey from the start of his PhD to his current position as a postdoc researcher, highlighting the turning points of this path. In the second part (30 minutes), participants will implement the discussed board with ‘obstacles’ and ‘aids’ based on their worries and expectations for their future doctoral careers, in a collective-guided sharing exercise. In the third part of the workshop (30 minutes), a game session will be held to test the game board and kick off their PhD paths together in a lively yet thoughtful way, focusing on the ‘flex(st)ability’ approach (Ferrando and Rozzoni 2023) needed for successful engagement with one’s often non-linear but exciting academic path: never about ‘chasing the wild goose’ but rather about learning to play with it.

 Reference:

 Ferrando, Francesca, and Stefano Rozzoni. 2023. “Vision Quest in Posthumanist Education: Focuses, Praxes and Experiences.” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 31 (4): 586–611. 

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Bio: Stefano Rozzoni, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He earned a PhD in ‘Transcultural Studies in Humanities’ from the University of Bergamo, as well as a PhD in ‘Literary and Cultural Studies’ (cotutelle) from Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Dr. Rozzoni’s research interests focus on environmental narratives in Anglophone literature and culture across different periods, media, and themes (such as the pastoral, Franciscanism, urban and rural spaces and places, and ecofascism).

 His current research project intersects the Environmental Humanities and the Digital Humanities to investigate contemporary manifestations of the pastoral. Posthumanism plays a central role in Dr. Rozzoni's transdisciplinary investigations across philosophy, education, and literature. He is the co-founder of the Italian Posthuman Network (Rete Posthuman Italiana). Dr. Rozzoni also integrates economic and literary discourse, particularly in relation to past and present influences of Franciscan philosophy in Anglophone literature and culture.

 He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Research Network “N.E.S.T. Research Network. Narratives in Environmental and Sustainable Transitions,” funded by the European Union (NextGenerationEU) and the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) - Fondo Promozione e Sviluppo.