Intructions for presenter and audience here.
Day 1, Wednesday (May 4th)
9:00 Registration opens (Tampere University, Kanslerinrinne 1, Pinni B, room 1097)
9:30-9:45 Opening words with Frans Mäyrä
9:45-11:30 Session 1: Opening the Books
- Yu Hao: Intertextuality, Intermediality, and Intermateriality in Chinese Cultivation Games and Novels
- Andrew Phelps and Mia Consalvo: Re-Reading, Re-Playing, and Re-Experiencing: Similarities, Differences, and Impact Across Games and Books
- Yingrong Chen: What Did We Read in China? A Research Based on the Chinese gamebooks Published from 1980 to 2000
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-13:15: Keynote: Souvik Mukherjee: Reading Games and Playing Books: The Indic and the Ludic
13:30-14:30 Session 2: Libraries and Librarians
- Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone and Daniel Vella: Libraries in Digital Games: Representations and Explorations
- Riikka Aurava: Depictions of Libraries and Librarians in the Dungeons & Dragons Libraries of Candlekeep and Cobalt Soul
15:00-16:00 Session 3: Language and Fiction in Tabletop RPGs
- Steven Dashiell: Symbolic Violence in the Language of Pathfinder Descriptions of Black Bodies
- Jaakko Stenros and Tanja Sihvonen: The Fluff Theory of Role-Playing Games
17:00-18:00 Social program: Finnish Museum of Games tour, Museum Center Vapriikki, Alaverstaanraitti 5 (Entrance to the museum costs 14 Euros)
18:30 Social program: Casual Dinner, Plevna Brewery Pub & Restaurant, Itäinenkatu 8 (some tables reserved for the seminar participants – note that having dinner together in Plevna is at everyone’s own expense.)
Day 2, Thursday (May 5th)
9:30 Registration opens (Tampere University, Kanslerinrinne 1, Pinni B, room 1097)
10:30-11:45 Session 4: Books in Digital Games [NOTE: start time has changed!]
- Evgenia Amey: Assassins, Jesters and the Pomegranate Banquet: The Elder Scrolls In-Game Books and Fanfiction
- CANCELLED: Mark Johnson: Reading Procedurally Generated Books in Digital Games
- Ida Kathrine Hammeleff Jørgensen: The Bookworm of Blaviken: An intermedial analysis of books in the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
11:45-12:45 Lunch
12:45-13:30 Keynote: Hanna-Riikka Roine: Limited and Enabled by Imagination: Textual Adventures in AI Dungeon
13:45-14:45 Session 5: Making of
- René Glas: Playing with the Gamebook: The Final Hours Interactive Storybook Series as Playful Paratexts
- Jan Švelch and Jaroslav Švelch: Industrial Reflexivity in Video Game Art Books
15:15-16:15 Session 6: Looking at
- Michael Hancock: “A Deadly Time Paradox, Taking the Form of a Pair of Giant, Four-Dimensional Scissors!”: Image, Text, and the Gamebook Comic
- Bruno Dupont and Hélène Sellier: Cutting, Pasting, Pastiching? Visual References to Game Culture in Gamer Literature Book Covers
16:30-18:00 Social program alternative 1: Launch party of Pelit kulttuurina book (In Finnish), in Oasis (Pinni B, 2nd floor)
16:30-18:30 Social program alternative 2: Follow My Lead larp hosted by Hanne Grasmo for 6-10 participants (more info here, sign-up here)
18:00-21:00 Social program: Snacks and games in Oasis (Pinni B, 2nd floor)
Day 3, Friday (May 6th)
9:30 Registration opens (Tampere University, Kanslerinrinne 1, Pinni B, room 1097)
10:00-12:00 Session 7: Reading and Adapting
- Hanna Wirman: A Match within a Match: Master of Go Plays Mahjong
- Niklas Nylund: From Fantasy Classic to Vernacular Videogame: LORD as a Participatory Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings
- Hanne Grasmo: Reading Larps: A Review of European Larp Script Books
- Jukka Särkijärvi: A Dragon Caught in Amber: Greyhawk Novels as Narrative Adaptations of Adventure Modules
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:00 Keynote: Raine Koskimaa: Augmented book as a game device
14:15-15:45 Session 8: Playing Books
- Hanna Järvenpää: Toys, Books, Toybooks: Rethinking Children’s Playful Bookthings
- Marcin Łączyński, Tomasz Gackowski, and Michał Gołębiowski: Variety or Similarity: The Typology and Frequency of Occurence of Certain Kinds of Puzzles Present in Riddle Based Gamebooks
- Viviane Peçaibes: Mind Full of Colour: An AR gamebook to Help Inpatients with Anorexia Nervosa
15:45-16:00 Closing discussion
16:30 Social program: Unofficial continuation probably at Telakka, Tullikamarinaukio 3
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Party! 