The 8th Philosophy of Computer Games Conference Conference Program (Updated: November 13th, 2014)
November 12th (Studio-X Istanbul) | |
18:00 | Independent Game Philosophers (IGP) Panel |
November 13th (santralIstanbul) | |
09:00 | Registration |
10:00 | Opening Speech – Prof. Dr. Halil Nalçaoğlu & Dr. Rune Klevjer |
10:30 | Keynote: Values at Play in Digital Games, Mary Flanagan |
11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:45 | Freedom and nomos: The political ontologies of 4x (and other) games. William Huber, Abertay University |
12:15 | <∞ min to Oasis of Happiness: Promises of Freedom and Play in Pocket Planes. Olli Tapio Leino, City University of Hong Kong |
12:45 | Enstranging Play: Distinguishing Playful Subjecthood from Governance. Lars de Wildt, Leiden University Netherlands |
13:15 | Lunch Break |
14:30 | A New Solution to the Gamer’s Dilemma. Rami El Ali, Lebanese American University |
15:00 | Games and the Open World. Johnathan Harrington, University of Malta |
15:30 | Felino: The Philosophical Practice of Making an Interspecies Videogame. Michelle Westerlaken, Malmö University |
16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:15 | The Fluidity of Play. C. Thi Nguyen, Utah Valley University |
16:45 | The freedom of avatars. Bjarke Liboriussen, University of Nottingham Ningbo China |
17:15 | Modern Action-Adventure FPS-s as Frankfurt-Type Examples: The BioShock Analogy and Its Limitations. Oliver Laas, Tallinn University |
18:00 | Opening Cocktail at Santral Campus |
November 14th (santralIstanbul) | |
09:30 | Registration |
10:00 | Keynote: The Conditions of Production of Video Games, Patrick Crogan (Full text at academia.edu) |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:15 | Freedom of Destruction and Grotesque Realism in Video Games. Tomasz Z. Majkowski, Jagiellonian University in Kraków |
11:45 | The Freedom of Alienated Reflexive Subjectivity in The Stanley Parable. Feng Zhu, University of Manchester |
12:15 | Gameness as the Experience of Cognitive Autonomy. John Richard Sageng, University of Oslo |
13:00 | Lunch Break |
14:00 | Animal Crossing as an Interactive Narrative Machine, Daniel Milne-Plückebaum, Bielefeld University |
14:30 | Freedom in Games: Between Fear and Boredom. Sebastian Möring, City University of Hong Kong |
15:00 | From Movement to Choice: Ontic and Deontic Freedom in Video Games. Ivan Mosca, University of Torino |
15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:45 | Do Computer Games Simulate, After All? Veli-Matti Karhulahti, University of Turku |
16:15 | Against Autonomous Simulation. Andreas Gregersen, University of Copenhagen |
17:00 | Shuttle to Sultanahmet |
20:00 | Conference Dinner |
November 15th (santralIstanbul) | |
09:30 | Registration |
10:00 | Keynote: Suits, Games, and Computer Games, Thomas Hurka |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:15 | Freedom and the Ludic Subject. Daniel Vella, IT University of Copenhagen |
11:45 | Between “Live” and “Tell”: The Suspension of Freedom. Marta Matylda Kania, University of Lower Silesia |
12:15 | Freer Than We Think: Game Design as a Liberation Practice. Stefano Gualeni. NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences |
13:00 | Lunch Break |
14:00 | On Freedom in Computer Games. Anita Leirfall, University of Bergen |
14:30 | Freedom as ‘Meaningful Choice’: Philosophical Lessons from Video Gameplay. Jere Surber, The University of Denver |
15:00 | ‘Free yourself!’ An inquiry into moral life in Second Life. Katleen Gabriels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:45 | Closing Remarks & Discussion |
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