CEEGS’22 program (updated Oct 5)
Skip to: Thursday (Oct 13), Friday (Oct 14), Saturday (Oct 15)
All sessions will take place in the Tallinn University Astra building (Narva mnt. 29).
The registration desk will be open 9:30–12:00, 12:30–15:00, 15:30–16:30.
Workshops
10:00-12:30 Games and/as political activism (facilitators: Mikhail Fiadotau, Hanna Wirman)
A-507
Speakers: Pedro Ferreira; Robin Longobardi Zingarelli; Martin Látal; Jonne Arjoranta; Beatriz Blanco and Mayara Araujo Caetano; Zdenko Mago and Alexandra Kukumbergová; Matthias Fuchs; Martin Sillaots
11:30-13:00 European esports cultures (facilitators: Usva Friman, Maria Ruotsalainen, Matilda Ståhl, Miia Siutila)
A-242
Speakers: Raine Koskimaa, Tanja Välisalo, Jari Lindroos, & Jaakko Peltonen; Azul Romo Flores; Tom Legierse; Nick Taylor
13:00-16:15 Videogames and environmental issues (facilitators: Lukáš Kolek, Andrea Hubert)
A-507
Speakers: Ondřej Trhoň, Andrea Hubert, Paweł Frelik, Velvet Spors, Eduardo Luersen, Maria Garda
14:30-16:00 Studying the effect of digital games on children in the game studies context (facilitators: Michal Božík, Silvester Buček)
A-242
Speakers: Silvester Buček; Michal Božík; Ioana Andreea Ștefan, Antoniu Ștefan, & Ancuța Florentina Gheorghe; Peadar Charles Callaghan
16:00 Pre-keynote coffee
Astra building lobby
16:30 Keynote: Maria Garda “Cultural sustainability and videogame preservation”
A-242
18:30 Optional visit: videogame collection at the Estonian National Library
(NB! Limited capacity due to renovation; arranged on a first-come-first-served basis)
09:00 | Registration | |
09:45 | Opening remarks | |
10:00 | Keynote: Hanna Wirman “Games and (inter)national politics” | |
11:00 | Coffee | |
11:30 | Session 1A 11:30 Heikki Tyni, Olli Sotamaa, and Taina Myöhänen “The Cultural Life of Game Analytics” 12:00 Jaroslav Švelch “Manic Miners of the world, unite!: A variantology of the Czechoslovak clones, ports, and conversions of the British Hit” 12:30 Camille Laurelli and Mikhail Fiadotau “Super Mario on Sega Mega Drive: Unpacking the Cultural Context Behind Pirate Cover Art“ 13:00 Olli Sotamaa, Tom Apperley, Niklas Nylund, and Jaakko Suominen “Failing at being inclusive: The Nokia N-gage and the ‘real’ mobile gaming experience” | Session 1B 11:30 Hans-Joachim Backe “Immersive Sim: Genre or Genre-Buster?” 12:00 Nele Van de Mosselaer and Stefano Caselli “The Narrative Value of Memory Discrepancies in Digital Games” 12:30 Agata Waszkiewicz “Embedded Games and Metaleptic Jumps: the Ludic Realities of Daniel Mullins’ The Hex“ 13:00 Jonne Arjoranta, Tanja Välisalo, and Jukka Varsaluoma “Memories of meaningful game experiences” |
13:30 | Lunch (at participants’ own expense) | |
15:00 | Session 2A 15:00 Justyna Janik “Uncanny randomness: how uncertainty can build narrative experiences through the materiality of the game” 15:30 Leonid Moyzhes “A Vision of St. Agnes: Anxiety toward religious experience in strategy videogames about cults” | Session 2B 15:00 Tomasz Majkowski, Aleksandra Prokopek, and Magdalena Kozyra “Polish Ghost in American Shell” 15:30 Jan Houska “The experiences of Eastern European expatriates and remote workers during mobility-inducing times: The case of Czech-based game companies” 16:00 Laura Goudet “‘Now we have voices’: an American history of LGBTQ testimonies in videogames” |
16:30 | Coffee | |
17:00 | Session 3A 17:00 Hanne Grasmo “Playing Around Sexual Arousal: Real Lust and Serious Playfulness in Adult Make-believe Games” 17:30 Robin Longobardi Zingarelli “Transmasculine Representations in Video Games” | Session 3B 17:00 Alesha Serada “Will Kentucky Route Zero Take You to Twin Peaks? Tracing the Narrative of the American Weird” 17:30 Magdalena Kozyra, Tomasz Majkowski, and Aleksandra Prokopek “The Invention of Leshy” |
19:00 | Buffet dinner (at participants’ own expense, price €35) Kochi Aidad (Lootsi 10) | |
21:00 | Board game night | |
The game showcase will take place in A-303 between 14:00 and 18:00.
09:00 | Keynote: Sonia Fizek “Playing at a distance: Borderlands of video game aesthetic” | |
10:00 | Session 1A 10:10 Mayara Araujo Caetano “Porn cinema and sexual playfulness” 10:40 Maria Ruotsalainen, Matilda Ståhl, and Usva Friman “‘Elsewhere and otherwise?’ Ludic imaginaries and the making of esports masculinities” 11:10 Tom Apperley “Visibility Games: Play and Video Games in Online Sex Workers’ Social Media” | Session 1B 10:10 Arthur Marques Atalião Grecco Arthur “The Plurality of Neomedievalist Phenomenon in Video Games” 10:40 Jakub Šindelář and Angus Mol. “‘Well, that’s just like your opinion, man…’: The value of distant reading of large paratext corpora for studying receptions of historical games” 11:10 Tereza Fousek Krobová, Justyna Janik, and Jaroslav Švelch “Haunted spaces of post-Soviet horror games: A comparative study of Someday You’ll Return and The Medium” |
11:30 | Coffee | |
12:00 | Session 2A 12:00 Jaakko Stenros and Eirik Fatland “The History of ‘Role-Play’ from Jacob Levy Moreno to Dungeons & Dragons and Larp“ 12:30 Jan Švelch “Critical Role's Aspirational Analog Play: Mediatization and Commodification of Tabletop Role-Playing” 13:00 Leon Y. Xiao “Breaking Ban: Assessing the effectiveness of Belgium’s gambling law regulation of video game loot boxes” | Session 2B 12:00 Maksim Podvalnyi “Russian Military Strategy Games and the Aesthetics of War” 12:30 Kristian A. Bjørkelo “Imagining the all-seeing eye. Surveillance Imaginaries in games” 13:00 Michał Kłosiński “Biopolitical markers in digital games: interfaces” |
13:30 | Lunch | |
15:00 | Session 3A 15:00 Johan Kalmanlehto “Self-formation through nonverbal meaning in process aesthetics” 15:30 Matilda Ståhl, Maria Ruotsalainen, Usva Friman, and Fredrik Rusk “Exploring constructions of a situated esports aesthetic within and outside gameplay” 16:00 Daniel Nielsen “Player boosting in massive multiplayer online role-playing games: player-to-player economies & audience and producer struggle” | Session 3B 15:00 Michał Kozub “Representation and role of disability and queer in FromSoftware games” 15:30 Kairi Jets “Poetic Power of Video Games – Possible Uses of Video Games in Cancer Survivor’s Recovery Process” 16:00 Filip Jankowski “‘Until you play your life away’: In defence of Muriel Tramis’ erotic trilogy” |
16:30 | Assembly and final remarks | |