Conference Program

Please submit the draft of your paper by sending it to our e-mail account (pocgconf2017@gmail.com). It is obligatory for all participants to send their work by November 22nd, 2017. There are no restrictions in terms of the paper’s length; however, we kindly ask you to use the following template for your final submission:

• .odt file;
• .doc file.

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Tuesday, Nov 28

11:00	WORKSHOP: Game Definitions (chaired by Sebastian Möring, John R. Sageng)	WORKSHOP: Cultural Imperialism in Digital Games (chaired by Silvester Buček)
16:30	PANEL: Comedy and Games (Krista Bonello, Paweł Grabarczyk, Tomasz Z. Majkowski, Jaroslav Švelch, mod. Constantino Oliva)
18:30	Keynote Speech: Grzegorz J. Nalepa – I know what you feel! Making Computers (more) Emotional
20:00	Welcome drinks

Wedensday, Nov 29

9:00	Morning Coffee
9:30	Keynote Speech: Sybille Lammes – Out of Action: Waiting, ambling and boredom in play
10:30	Coffee Break
Panel A
11:00	Peter Nelson – A Game Made From Other Games: Actions and Objects in Garry’s Mod
11:30	Nele Van de Mosselaer – Fictionally Flipping Tetrominoes? Defining the Fictionality of a Video Game Player’s Actions
12:00	Justyna Janik – (Re)weave the Gameplay. Analysis of the spatial textures in Yandere Simulator
12:30	Lunch Break
Panel B
14:00	Michelle Westerlaken – Self-Fashioning in Action: Zelda’s Breath of the Wild Vegan Run
14:30	Daniel Milne-Plückebaum –  On (How to Make Sense of) Virtualects
15:00	Milan Jacevic – “This. Cannot. Continue.” – Ludoethical Tension in NieR: Automata
15:30	Coffee Break
Panel C
16:00	Costantino Oliva – On the ontological status of musical actions in digital games
16:30	John R. Sageng  – The Ontological Status of Game Ecologies
17:00	Max Willis, Greta Adamo and Mark Mushiva –  Persuasion and Empathy in Computer Games, An Ontological Perspective
17:30	Coffee Break
Panel D
18:00	Michelle Westerlaken and Stefano Gualeni – A Dialogue Concerning ‘Doing Philosophy with and within Computer Games’ – or: Twenty rainy minutes in Krakow
18:30	Hans-Joachim Backe – Two Ways through the Looking Glass. Game Design as an Expression of Philosophy of Action
19:30	Conference Dinner

Thursday, Nov 30

9:00	Morning Coffee
9:30	Keynote Speech: Mark Silcox – The Transition Into Virtual Reality
10:30	Coffee Break
Panel E
11:00	Daniel Vella – Action as the basis for an aesthetics of ludic subjectivity
11:30	Ea Christina Willumsen – The Subject and the Form: Inquiries Into Formal Analysis
12:00	Rune Klevjer – Told as True. Diegesis and diegetic characters in videogames
12:30	Lunch Break
Panel F
14:00	Samuel Ulbricht – The Moral Status of Virtual Actions
14:30	Alesja Serada  – Free-to-Play Games Between Good and Evil: the Case of Rewarded Video Ads
15:00	Sebastian Ostritsch – The Ethical Relevance of Interactivity in Computer Games
15:30	Coffee Break
Panel G
16:00	Sonia Fizek  – Interpassivity and the Joy of Delegated Play in Idle Games
16:30	Olli Tapio Leino – Chaos at the Europoort: Materiality, Liveness, and Performative Action in Mundane Vehicle Simulators
17:00	Marcin Blacha – Processes and Idleness in Europa Universalis IV
20:00	St Andrew’s Night Party

Friday, Dec 1

9:00	Morning Coffee
9:30	Keynote Speech: Philip Brey – Values in Computer Games and Responsibilities of Developers and Users
10:30	Coffee Break
Panel H
11:00	Frank Fetzer –  Technological Intentionality in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Video Games
11:30	Oliver Laas – Do We Need Virtual Actions and Events? An Ontological Cost-Benefit Analysis
12:00	Mateusz Felczak – Orchestrating the in-game agency. Towards the inaesthetics of the code in Doom 3
12:30	Anders Falk and Linus de Petris – (Re)Framing Computer Games within Agential Realism
13:00	Lunch Break
Panel I [RELOCATION TO GOŁĘBIA 20!]
14:30	Shan-Chao Fu – Are Video Games Modern? — From the Aspect of the Conception of Time
15:00	Johnathan Harrington – Something Something Game Something: A Visual Approach to Game Definition
15:30	Dooley Murphy – Shared Cooperative Activity, Shared Competitive Activity, and the Irresistibility of Something Like a Magic Circle
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Round Table  and Conference Closing
19:00	Afterparty!

 

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