Conferences Archives - Prof. Sebastian Möring, PhD

August 20, 2026

Panel Gamescom Congress

Wie kann die Spielwissenschaft in Deutschland dauerhaft Wurzeln schlagen? 2025 war ein Meilensteinjahr für die deutschsprachige Spielforschung: ein Positionspapier in der Paidia, ein neuer Verein, eine neue Fachgesellschaft. Doch nachhaltige Strukturen entstehen nicht von selbst.Games prägen Demokratie, Bildung, Gesundheit und Kultur – ihre Erforschung braucht tragfähige institutionelle Grundlagen. Genau darüber diskutieren wir auf dem gamescom congress und bringen Wissenschaft, Forschungsförderung...

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August 5, 2026

Games and Literature published!

We are very happy to announce that our edited volume Games and Literature, co-edited by Dîlan Canan Çakir, Anna Kinder, and myself, has just been published in open access with Wallstein Verlag (DOI: https://doi.org/10.46500/83536017). It appears as volume 23 in the series DLAschriften / DLAwritings, and the full PDF is freely available. The volume grew out of an international conference...

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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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