Project workshop 1: April 23-24, 2015,
Venue: U-06 Centre for Peace Studies and E-1004 Dept. of Culture and Literature, UiT Tromsø
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Programme:
Day 1: April 23, 2015 (U-06, Centre for Peace Studies)
09:15 - 09:45 Welcome & Introduction to WARGAME-project (Holger Pötzsch, UiT)
09:45 - 10:00 Break
Panel 1: War Games and the Body
10:00 - 10:30: James Ash (Newcastle University)
“Resolution: Understanding Affective Design in Military FPS Games”
10:30 - 11:00: Kevin McSorley (University of Portsmouth)
“Somatic War: Militarized Sensation, Gameplay and Embodied Experience“
11:00 – 11:30: Siobhan Thomas (London South Bank University)
"Transgressing the Boundaries of Embodied Habitus: Intersomatic Connoisseurship in War Game Design"
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee
Panel 2: War Games and Reality
12:00 – 12:30: Holger Pötzsch (UiT Tromsø)
“Selective Transgressions: Gendering the Experience of War in Military-Themed Computer Games”
12:30 – 13:00: Philip Hammond (London South Bank University)
“Reality Check: Military Videogames and the Problem of Authenticity”
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Panel 3: Transgressive Games
14:00 – 14:30: Kristine Jørgensen (University of Bergen)
“Transgressive Content and Meaning-Making Processes in War Games”
14:30 – 15:00: Tilo Hartmann (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
“Moral Disengagement: How Video Games Frame Physical Violence an 'Okay' Action”
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
Panel 4: Games, History, and Memory
15:30 – 16:00: Christine Smith-Simonsen (UiT) and Holger Pötzsch (UiT)
“War Games and History: War, Violence, and Enemies in History-Based First-Person Shooters”
16:00 - 16:30: Emil Lundedal Hammar (UiT)
“Appropriative Memorial Play”
16:30 – 17:00: Vit Sisler (Charles University Prague)
"Contested Memories of War in the Serious Game 'Czechoslovakia 38-89 - Assassination"
20:00 - 22:00: Screening of Tonje Hessen Schei's documentary Play Again (2010)
Verdensteatret Cinematek, Introduction by Holger Pötzsch, UiT Tromsø
Day 2: April 24, 2015 (E-1004, Dept.of Cuture and Literature)
09:30 – 12:30: Closed planning and development session 1
12:30 – 13:45: Lunch
14:15 – 17:00: Closed planning and development session 2
19:00 Joint Dinner
The symposium was jointly financed by the Dept. of Culture and Literature and the Centre for Peace Studies, UiT Tromsø, and is the result of an initiative by the ENCODE-research group.
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