Conference site
The conference will be held at the Faculty of Polish Studies (Gołębia 16) in room 42.
Friday, Nov 18
13:30 | Conference Opening |
14:00 | Coffee Break |
Panel A | |
14:30 | Magdalena Bednorz: A fair plague maiden: spectres and gender in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. |
15:00 | Piotr Sterczewski: Reclaiming the Historical Space: Krakowski Szlak Kobiet (Kraków Trail of Women), the First Polish Herstorical Board Game |
15:30 | Coffee Break |
Panel B | |
16:00 | Aleksandra Mochocka: Ecocritical reading of Steam Park (2013) board game |
16:30 | Bartłomiej Musajew: Between Incorporation and Introjection: The Virtual Spaces of Mourning in Pathologic and Dear Esther |
17:00 | Darshana Jayemanne: Ontological Dominant and the Ludic Aesthetics of The Crying of Lot 49 |
17:30 | Coffee Break |
18:00 | Keynote Speech: Joyce Goggin: Literary Theory and Games: Where the Twain Meets |
Saturday, Nov 19
Sunday, Nov 20
Panel F | |
10:30 | Morning Coffee |
10:45 | Marta Matylda Kania: This Dark Area Between the Doors. On and in The Beginner’s Guide |
11:15 | Daniel Vella: “There May Be No Answers, But Still One Must Forge Ahead”: Dark Souls and Romanticism |
11:45 | Coffee Break |
Panel G | |
12:15 | Krzysztof M. Maj: The Dialectics of Immersion: Minigames, Gameworld, and World-building |
12:45 | Timothy Welsh: Fictional Worlds, Freemium Economics, and the Shifting Locus of Competition in *Grand Theft Auto V Online* |
13:15 | Michał Żmuda: Games at the Threshold: Paratexts and Storyworld Creation in Digital Games |
13:45 | Lunch Break |
Panel H | |
15:00 | Carl Therrien and Isabelle Lefebvre: “Lock and Load”. Shaping the Game and Targeting the Audience in Video Game Advertisements (1981-1996) |
15:30 | Espen Aarseth: Ludo- vs. Logo-centrism: Criticism and Crisis in Game Studies |
16:00 | Veli-Matti Karhulahti: Playing Review: The Art of Research Evaluation |
16:30 | Coffee Break |
17:00 | Round Table and Closing Remarks |