In relation to the upcoming event Playing (with) Non-Violence (25. 9. 2019), Dr Maria B. Garda was interviewed by the Turun yliopisto News Team. Maria shared some of her thoughts on games and violence.
Category Archive: Events
CoEGameCult researcher Dale Leorke has curated a new exhibition on location-based, urban games in the Finnish Museum of Games, opening in 13th September 2019.
The CoE-GameCult site has expanded to include an open archive of videos, where CoE researchers and visiting experts discuss their work and various topical aspects of game cultures.
We have updated the call for papers for the 5th Jyväskylä Autumn Seminar with our two great keynotes, Katrin Tiidenberg (Associate Professor, Tallinn University) and Florence Chee (Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago).
Long in planning, it was announced in Kyoto that the next international DiGRA games research conference will take place in Tampere, Finland. Organised by CoE-GameCult in 2-6 June 2020, the conference has its website and CFP at: http://www.digra2020.org.
Tampere University and the CoE Gamecult were pleased to host artist, academic, and game designer Troy Innocent during the week of 8th–16th April, 2019. Innocent was visiting for the 15th Annual Tampere University Game Lab Spring Seminar, Urban Play. The Spring Seminar was hosted by the CoE Gamecult and held at the Vapriikki Museum in Tampere, home of the Finnish Museum of Games.
On 6-10 August 2019, the international conference of game scholars, DiGRA 2019, takes place in Kyoto, Japan. More […]
Thousands of people gather into Ropecon this weekend (26-28 July 2019) – the largest volunteer-organised role-playing convention in […]
In collaboration with the CoE-GameCult, SNSUS – Stiftelsen Nordiska Sällskapet för Upplysning om Spelberoende is organising the 12th Nordic Conference on Gambling […]
CoE Gamecult presents “Modern Games: Institutions and the Colonization of Indeterminacy,” a lecture by Thomas Malaby on Friday 12 April, also available online.