Conferences Archives - Sebastian Möring, PhD

October 1, 2023

Quartet of Games Culture

One of this year’s most memorable professional experiences was definitely the “Quartet of Games Culture” (“Das Quartett der Spielekultur”). It took place on the evening of June 29, 2023 at the German Literature Archive (Deutsches Literaturarchiv – DLA) in Marbach. In this edition of this talk show series game designer Tracy Fullerton (Los Angeles), ludic wanderer Sonia Fizek (Cologne), and...

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August 31, 2023

Literature Archive of the Future

Although I am a bit behind on updates, I am very happy to have found this handy publication in my mailbox a couple of weeks ago. The Literature Archive of the Future contains a brief chapter of mine where I am wondering “Why Collect Computer Games in a Literary Archive of the Future?” Initially, I suggest that computer games and...

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June 22, 2022

Podium Computerspiel-Erzähl-Visionen

Ich freue mich sehr am 27.06.2022 am Thementag Digitale Kultur: EUROPA ERSPIELEN des Literaturfestival Potsdam Brandenburg mitzuwirken und gemeinsam mit Lena Falkenhagen (Schriftstellerin + Computerspiel-Autorin), Dîlan Canan Çakir (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach) auf dem Podium “Computerspiel-Erzähl-Visionen” ab 14:45 Uhr die Frage zu erötern: Welche Computerspiele brauchen wir? Moderiert wird das Panel von dem Journalisten Matthias Kreienbrink. Ort: Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Potsdam...

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March 15, 2021

Neuer Kommentar-Artikel “Die paradoxen Spiele der Computerspielkulturen in Ost und West”

Für das Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung habe ich einen Kommentar verfasst mit dem Titel “Die paradoxen Spiele der Computerspielkulturen in Ost und West”. Für mich war das eine neue und gewinnbringende Erfahrung. Denn mein Kommentar bezieht sich auf drei Artikel aus dem Jahrbuch von den wunderbaren Kollegen Jaroslav Švelch, Gleb Albert und Patryk Wasiak, die wichtige sozial-, kultur- und medienhistorische...

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November 10, 2020

In-Game Photo Gallery goes MediaTech Hub Conference

On Thursday, November 12, 2020, at 11 am I will participate in the conversation “HUMANITIES GO DIGITAL – POSTCOLONIAL POTSDAM AND IN-GAME PHOTOGRAPHY” at the MediaTech Hub Conference in Potsdam. On this occasion, Dr. Anna von Rath and I will be presenting two of our projects where we both combine humanities-based research with media technologies. Dr. Anna von Rath will...

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November 5, 2020

“The Game Itself? : Towards a Hermeneutics of Computer Games” now available as open access and as video

Our paper “The Game Itself? : Towards a Hermeneutics of Computer Games” is now available as open access publication via the DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3402942.3402978. The video of the talk can be watched here: Espen Aarseth and I presented it in September 2020 at the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG ’20). Our submission received a mention as an exceptional...

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September 7, 2020

Game hermeneutics at FDG 2020 in Malta

Game hermeneutics at FDG 2020: Next week, Wednesday, September 16 at 3 pm (CEST, or GMT +02:00), I will be presenting the full paper “The Game Itself? : Towards a Hermeneutics of Computer Games” together with my co-author, Espen Aarseth, at this year’s Foundations of Digital Games conference (FDG 20) in Malta (http://fdg2020.org/index.php). We will be talking about game hermeneutics...

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May 15, 2020

Mod Theory Seminar, May 18 – 29, 2020

Update May 19, 2020: The #ModTheorySeminar was fun yesterday. Very sharp in terms of talks and very wild in terms of play. The sound of my presentation was really bad, so I recorded my talk again. Feel free to listen to it here: Watch the recording of the whole session on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/dZvyzCjHnOo. Original announcement, May 15, 2020: I’m...

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September 16, 2019

Ausstellung: “Die DDR ins Spiel bringen. Digitale Spiele über die DDR und den Eisernen Vorhang” 25. – 29.9.2019

Im Rahmen des moving history | Festival des historischen Films, Potsdam, 25. – 29.9.2019 Mit freundlicher Unterstützung vom Computerspielemuseum Ort: ZeM – Brandenburgisches Zentrum für MedienwissenschaftenHermann-Elflein-Straße 1814467 Potsdam Öffnungszeiten: 25.9. – 28.9., 14:00-18:00 Uhr, 29.9., 11:00-15:00 Uhr Ausstellungseröffnung: 25.9., 13:00 Uhr Grußworte der Festivalleitung, Vorstellung der Ausstellung (Sebastian Möring), 13:15 Uhr: Vortrag (Englisch) Jaroslav Švelch (Karls-Universität Prag) “Gaming the Iron Curtain”, 14:15 Uhr: Diskussionsrunde (Deutsch) zum Thema “Geschichtsvermittlung und...

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July 29, 2019

Article translated to Portuguese

Thanks to the fantastic work of editors Suely Fragoso (Full professor at Faculty of Communication, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) and Tomasz Majkowski (Assistant Professor at Department of Literary Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Polish Studies of Jagiellonian University) and translators Mayara Caetano (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) and José Messias (Universidade Federal Fluminense)...

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