Full program - History of Games Conference
Thursday Friday
ATRIUM
8:30 - 10:30
Registration
AUD 1
10:30-11:00
Opening
AUD 1
9:00 - 10:30
Session 4
Session chair: Carl Therrien

"Once Upon A Time, the Greatest of All Media Was Born. The Distortive Construction of Game History Around Narrative Structures"
Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin
Université du Québec à Montréal

"Finnish Fuck Games: A Lost Historical Footnote"
Veli-Matti Karhulahti and Susanna Paasonen
University of Turku

"Game Histories of the English Midlands"
Nick Webber and Alex Wade
Birmingham City University
AUD 1
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1
Session chair: Nick Webber

"Artists, amateurs and entrepreneurs: The development of indie video games in Québec before the 21st century boom"
Jonathan Lessard and Carl Therrien
University of Concordia and Université de Montréal

"Quebec and the rise of gaming culture: towards an historical account of (video)games’ social spaces, events and media coverage"
Francis Lavigne
Université de Montréal

"Computer games and the history of art – A history in the making"
Björn Blankenheim
Bergischen Universität Wuppertal
AUD 1
11:00 - 12:30
Session 5
Session chair: Miguel Sicart

"Ludoeconomies: The Values of Games and Capital"
Alex Wade
Birmingham City University
"Mapping the Scholarly History of Play and Games: Groos and Colozza"
Arseniy Deriglazov and Veli-Matti Karhulahti
FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg and University of Turku

"Gambling Culture and Anti-Gambling Policies in China Before 1912"
Yingrong Chen
Lingnan University
12.30 - 13:30 - Lunch 12.30 - 13:30 - Lunch
AUD 1
13:30 - 15:00
Session 2
Session chair: Bjarke Liboriussen

"A Heritage Studies Approach to Non-Digital Role-Playing Games in Historical Settings"
Michal Mochocki
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
"The art of tabletop role-playing: Portal magazine (1999-2003) and its influence on the role-playing games scene in Poland"
Aleksandra Mochocka
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz

"Pinball Machines as (More Than) Two-Button Videogames: Connecting Genealogies Using the MDA Framework"
Péter Kristóf Makai
University of Szeged
AUD 1
13:30 - 15:00
Session 6
Session chair: Veli-Matti Karhulahti

"Defence of Chinese state-sanctioned history against perceived attacks from "Honor of Kings"
Bjarke Liboriussen and Paul Martin
Nottingham University, Ningbo

"From Game Arcades to eSports Arenas: Mapping the field of Competitive Computer Gaming in Hong Kong"
Olli Tapio Leino
City University of Hong Kong

"Doing Good and/or Making Money: A short History of Independent Game Festival Rhetoric"
Jesper Juul and Dooley Murphy
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
and Copenhagen University
AUD 1
15:30 - 17:00
Session 3
Session chair: Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath

"Archaeology of strategy games: typological rudiment concept application in similarities between chess and the Total War digital games series"
Gabriela Birnfeld Kurtz and Leonardo Birnfeld Kurtz
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

"Virtual Archaeology using the First-Person Shooter: A Heuristic for Computer Game Representation"
Peter Nelson
City University of Hong Kong
AUD 1
15:00 - 15:30
Closing remarks
AUD 1
17:30
Keynote
Keynote: Alex de Voogt:
"The Board Games Movement: Recent advances in the understanding of board games in society"
History of Games Conference
Full program
Thursday
ATRIUM
8:30 - 10:30
Registration
AUD 1
10:30 - 11:00
Opening
AUD 1
11:00 - 12:30 - Session 1
Session chair: Nick Webber
Artists, amateurs and entrepreneurs: The development of indie video games in Québec before the 21st century boom
Jonathan Lessard and Carl Therrien
University of Concordia and Université de Montréal
Quebec and the rise of gaming culture: towards an historical account of (video)games’ social spaces, events and media coverage
Francis Lavigne
Université de Montréal
Computer games and the history of art – A history in the making
Björn Blankenheim
Bergischen Universität Wuppertal
12:30 -13:30 - Lunch
AUD 1
13:30 - 15:00 - Session 2
Session chair: Bjarke Liboriussen
A Heritage Studies Approach to Non-Digital Role-Playing Games in Historical Settings
Michal Mochocki
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
The art of tabletop role-playing: Portal magazine (1999-2003) and its influence on the role-playing games scene in Poland
Aleksandra Mochocka
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
Pinball Machines as (More Than) Two-Button Videogames: Connecting Genealogies Using the MDA Framework
Péter Kristóf Makai
University of Szeged
AUD 1
15:30 - 17:00 - Session 3
Session chair: Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath
Archaeology of strategy games: typological rudiment concept application in similarities between chess and the Total War digital games series
Gabriela Birnfeld Kurtz and Leonardo Birnfeld Kurtz
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Virtual Archaeology using the First-Person Shooter: A Heuristic for Computer Game Representation
Peter Nelson
City University of Hong Kong
17:30 - Keynote: Alex de Voogt:
The Board Games Movement: Recent advances in the understanding of board games in society
Friday
AUD 1
9:00 - 10:30 - Session 4
Session chair: Carl Therrien
Once Upon A Time, the Greatest of All Media Was Born. The Distortive Construction of Game History Around Narrative Structures
Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin
Université du Québec à Montréal
Finnish Fuck Games: A Lost Historical Footnote
Veli-Matti Karhulahti and Susanna Paasonen
University of Turku
Game Histories of the English Midlands
Nick Webber and Alex Wade
Birmingham City University
AUD 1
11:00 - 12:30 - Session 5
Session chair: Miguel Sicart
Ludoeconomies: The Values of Games and Capital
Alex Wade
Birmingham City University
Mapping the Scholarly History of Play and Games: Groos and Colozza
Arseniy Deriglazov and Veli-Matti Karhulahti
FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg and University of Turku
Gambling Culture and Anti-Gambling Policies in China Before 1912
Yingrong Chen
Lingnan University
12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch
AUD 1
13:30 - 15:00 - Session 6
Session chair: Veli-Matti Karhulahti
Defence of Chinese state-sanctioned history against perceived attacks from "Honor of Kings
Bjarke Liboriussen and Paul Martin
Nottingham University, Ningbo
From Game Arcades to eSports Arenas: Mapping the field of Competitive Computer Gaming in Hong Kong
Olli Tapio Leino
City University of Hong Kong
Doing Good and/or Making Money: A short History of Independent Game Festival Rhetoric
Jesper Juul and Dooley Murphy
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design
and Copenhagen University
AUD 1
12:30 - 13:00 - Closing remarks