Program
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6
08.00-9.30 | Registration |
09.30-10.00 | IntroductionYannis Scarpelos and Gordon Calleja |
10.00 | Keynote lecture: The Metaphysics of Avatars and Their Relation to Players–pdfEric Olson |
11.00 | Invited speaker: Driving Miss Ryan. Telepresenceand Diegesis in the Action-Adventure– pdfRune KlevjerChair: Yannis Scarpelos |
12.00 | Lunch Break |
13.00 | Darn it, “I” Keep Dying! The Metaphysical Self in Computer Games– pdfPeter DayChair: Gordon Calleja |
13.30 |
Becoming Zerg – The Machinic Embodiment of the Starcraft Player-pdf Mark Butler |
14.00 |
What is it Like to be a (Digital) Bat – pdf Stefano Gualeni |
14.30 | Coffee Break |
15.00 | The Joy of Doing: The Corporeal Connection in Player-Avatar Identity-pdfRikke Toft NorgaardChair: John Richard Sageng |
15.30 |
Identity and Simulacrum: Thank you Mario, but your Identity is in Another Castle-pdf Mario Rubio Mendez and Euridice Cabanes Martinez |
16.00 |
The King of Quake – is there an Avatar in MMOFPS?-pdf Nino Tolic and and Dijana Magđinski |
THURSDAY, APRIL 7
10.00 |
Keynote lecture: Animals and Avatars: Reflections of a biological naturalist-pdf, slidesDavid Myers Chair: Daphne Dragona |
11.00 | Break Coffee |
11.30 | In the Domain of Optional Rules–pdf Felan Parker |
12.00 |
Living two lives: Conflicts in Player-Avatar Identities Adam Russell |
12.30 |
Desire, Enjoyment and Lack: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Computer Games-pdf Graham Matthews |
13.00 | Lunch break |
14.00 |
Re-membering and Dismembering: Memory and the (Re)Creation of Identities in Videogames-pdfSouvik Mukherjee Chair: Anita Leirfall |
14.30 |
Spatialised Memory: The Gameworld as ‘Embedded Narrative’-pdf Daniel Vella |
15.00 |
Deconstructing the Time-travelling Identity-pdf Samir Passi and Ranjit Singh |
15.30 | Coffee Break |
16.00 | “A Man Chooses; A Slave Obeys” – Player Identity and Manipulation in Video Game Narrative– pdfSean KennedyChair: RuneKlevjer |
16.30 |
Blizzard will Soon Reveal Your Real Name: Identity and Governance in WoW- pdf Elina Roinioti |
21:30 |
Conference Dinner |
FRIDAY, APRIL 8
10.00 | Keynote: Players and Avatars: Against Identification-pptMia ConsalvoChair: Patrick Coppock |
11.00 | Coffee Break |
11.30 | (Re-)Positioning the Senses: Perceptions of Space in 3d Gameworlds-pdfAlisson Gazzard |
12.00 |
Self-Spatialities of Gaming Experience- pdf Angeliki Malakasioti and Spiros Papadopoulos |
13.00 | Lunch |
14.00 |
What’s Love Got to do with It?-pdf Sebastian Möring Chair: Costis Dallas |
14.30 |
To Be and not to Be, that is the Quest. Ontology of rules and Identity in Computer-based Games-pdf Ivan Mosca |
15.00 |
Coffee Break |
15.30 | Identity and Choice: Rhizomic and Binary Understandings of the Self in Videogames-pdfJuan Belmonte AvilaChair: Gordon Calleja |
16.00 | Mimkry Offers and Agonal Appeals–pdfNiklas Schrape |
16.30 | Closing session |