Workshops, keynote lectures and conference talks are open to general public. Social events and doctoral consortium are available to registered participants only.
September 26 (Thursday)
Hour | WORKSHOP: Disobedience of fantasy and fantasy of disobedience: non-English magical worlds in videogames Room 206 | WORKSHOP: Gaming Sights, Sighting Games: Ludic Visualities In and Out of Games Room 205 |
11:30 | Mateusz Kominiarczuk In hoc signo vinces? Complicated history of Christian symbolism in selected fantasy games | Anna Szilágyi-Nagy, Eszter Tóth Abstract or Real? Transforming Children’s Mental Maps into Game Space |
12:00 | Alesja Serada World- and Language-Building in Chinese-Themed Fantasy (the case of Jade Empire) | Agata Zarzycka Ridiculing Visualizations of Gameplay as aSelf-Fashioning Trope in Game Culture |
12:30 | Michał Łukasz Mochocki The Contested Polish/Slavicness of Witcher 3: A Postcolonial Perspective | Mateusz Felczak, Michał Gulik Interface, Failure Management and the Aesthetics of Paper Doll in Fantasy cRPGs |
13:00 | Discussion | Discussion |
Hour | Track 1 Room 213 | Track 2 Room 115 |
13:30 | Registration Starts | |
15:00 | Official opening and KEYNOTE: Ignacy Trzewiczek: Story driven board games and the lack of text Room 213 | |
16:30 | Coffee Break | |
SESSION 1 Room 213 | SESSION 2 Room 115 | |
17:00 | Jaroslav Švelch and Jan Švelch Playing cards with abominations: Posthuman monstrosity in the Hecatomb card game | Tobias Staaby “We’ll lose if Clementine dies!” – Video games as tools for dialogical teaching and learning |
17:30 | Jonne Arjoranta Interpretation as a Game Mechanic in Board Games | Stanisław Krawczyk Tabletop RPGs, video games, and SF&F literature in Poland in the 1990s: A joint study |
18:00 | Piotr Sterczewski Brave Volunteers, Heroic Scouts, and Playing the Pogrom Card: Semper Fidelis. Battle of Lviv 1918–1919 and Polish Mnemonic Hegemony | Michał Mochocki Role-Played Heritage: The Roots and Forms of Physical Role-Enactment as Heritage Practices |
18:30 | Péter Kristóf Makai Cladistic and Climate Change on Cardboard: Evolution in Ecological Eurogames | Jacek Mianowski Leadership, Circuition and Shift in Tabletop Wargaming Community |
20:00 | Welcome Party Kufle i widelce pub, ul. Czysta 3 Google maps |
September 27 (Friday)
Hour | Track 1 Room 213 | Track 2 Room 115 |
9:00 | Registration starts | |
9:30 | Morning Coffee | |
10:00 | KEYNOTE: Jaakko Stenros Room 213 | |
11:00 | Coffee Break | |
SESSION 3 Room 213 | SESSION 4 Room 115 | |
11:30 | Hans-Joachim Backe Platform Studies and Hybrid Games – a Test Case | Aleksandra Mochocka Children’s games and play in My Memory of Us |
12:00 | Agata Waszkiewicz “I Am Not Lying, I Am Embellishing:” the Ludic and Narrative Unreliability in Video Gamess | Maksim Podvalnyi Construction of gender in Shadowrun: Dragonfall |
12:30 | Michal Švarný and Vít Šisler Towards an Operationalized Definition of Procedural Rhetoric | Martyna Bakun There’s No Place Like Home – Subversiveness of Cozy Games |
13:00 | Ida Kathrine H. Jorgensen The qualifications of games as media | Magdalena Bednorz Fantastic femininity of space: environmental storytelling in Gone Home |
13:30 | Lunch Break | |
SESSION 5 Room 213 | SESSION 6 Room 115 | |
15:00 | Jakub Šindelář A Thorough Look at Noah Caldwell-Gervais: Fan-made audiovisual essays as an inspirational alternative to classic academic articles | Renata Ntelia Falling in love with an NPC: Embodiment and Intentionality |
15:30 | Paweł Frelik Preserving Ludic Heritage One Torrent at a Time: Video Games, Immaterial Labor, and Dark Archives | Marta Błaszkowska Master Detective, Mister Nobody. The identity of the protagonist in HOPA games |
16:00 | Tomasz Gnat Robin$on Cru$oe. Gentrified survivalism and survival as a commodity in the discourses of interactive entertainment. | Magdalena Kozyra I’ve failed again. On overcoming obstacles in video games |
16:30 | Coffee Break | |
SESSION 7 Room 213 | SESSION 8 Room 115 | |
17:00 | Maciej Nawrocki The Royal Pursuit or a Ludic Triviality? The Cultural Significance of Chess in Renaissance Through the Lens of Jan Kochanowski’s Szachy | Agata Włodarczyk and Marta Tyminska Female modes of outside the game engagement with a franchise – slash fan works for Fate/Grand Order |
17:30 | Vít Šisler Revisiting Historical Traumas in Video Games: Case Study of Svoboda 1945 | Dominik Kudła Preferences of Polish Gamers with regard to the Language Version of Video Games (Online Survey Results) |
18:00 | Mikhail Fiadotau Exploring the histories of CD-ROM piracy in 1990s’ Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus | Filip Jankowski French New Wave: Contemporary Events in the Works of Jean-Louis Le Breton, Tristan Cazenave, and François Coulon (1984-1986) |
19:00 | Conference Reception Mięta Restobar ul. Krupnicza 19a Google maps |
September 28 (Saturday)
Hour | Track 1 Room 213 | Track 2 Room 115 |
9:30 | Morning Coffee | |
10:00 | KEYNOTE: Torill Mortensen: Gamestudies in the digital jungle: observing play in new habitats Room 213 | |
11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:30 | Doctoral Consortium Room 205 | |
SESSION 9 Room 213 | SESSION 10 Room 115 | |
11:30 | Raine Koskimaa Performing Fandom in Game of Throne’s Let’s Play Videos | Leonid Moyzhes Simulating Numinous: representation of believers in “Cultist Simulator” |
12:00 | Bartosz Wieremiej Death, Taxes and Sports. FIFA Ultimate Team game mode and Dead Footballers | Damian Stewart A Play of Wills: Narrative Entanglement and Psychological Violence in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided |
12:30 | Jan Švelch From Tabletop to Esports: Magic: The Gathering in the Era of Live-Streaming | Agata Waszkiewicz and Mateusz Kominiarczuk Q&A: Reinterpreting Quests and Achievements Through the Frame Analysis |
13:00 | Kristian Bjørkelo Gaming culture as a microcosm. A study of political discourse in gaming forums. | Haryo Pambuko Jiwandono and Edeliya Relanika Purwandi Gaming for All: Digital Games as Empowerment Mediums for Individuals with Impairments in Indonesia |
13:30 | Lunch Break | |
SESSION 11 Room 213 | ||
15:00 | Arendse Løvind Andersen Real(er) Doors: On the Fictionality and Virtuality of Escape Room Doors | |
15:30 | Daniel Vella To Be Otherwise: The Ec-static Existential Potential of Virtual Game Worlds | |
16:00 | Alesja Serada Materiality of Play in Crypto Games | |
16:30 | Coffee Break | |
17:00 | CEEGS Round Table and Final Remarks Room 115 | |
19:00 | Afterparty HEX Boardgame Pub ul. Józefa Dwernickiego 5 Google maps |