Program

PCG2014

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