Here’s our forward planner for DAS|LAB meetings in the winter semester 2024 (contact: kontakt@daslab-ur.de):
- 16.10.: Introductions, summer research reports and forward planning
- 30.10.: Guest talk by Dr. Roman Birke: „Researching with AI“
- 13.11.: PhD project report by Edip Sönmez: „AI and Creative Writing“
- 27.11.: Conference talk by Sebastian Richter at „Playing War: Simulations, Games, Exercises, and the Representations of Military Force and Violence“, titled „Anti-war games and their Fragmentation of Existential Events“
- 4.12.: Bachelor / Masters students: project reports
- 18.12.: Xmas digi-crafting workshop
- 8.1.: Samya Brata Roy, Zahra Rizvi, Shanmugapriya T & Astrid Ensslin: Presentation of special issue for New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia on „India, Digital, LiteratureS: forms and (dis)contents„
- 22.1.: Lea Baumer: Let’s Play Valorant
DAS|LAB events in the Summer Semester 2024:
- 6th March: Filip Jankowski, Jagiellionian Universty, Krakow, “A Second Chance for the Auteur Category in Digital Games: An Intersectional Perspective” (Zoom)
- 3rd April, Samya Brata Roy, IIT Jodhpur, India, „Sahitya Akademi & eliteratureS: Disciplines, Institutions and Disciplining“ (Zoom)
- 24th April, Zahra Rizvi, Jamia Millia Islamia University, India (Zoom), „Ludic Making of Spectral Minorities: Indian Muslim Representation and Other Ghost Stories“
- 8th May, Kübra Aksay, University of Freiburg, “Swallowing the City—Donut County and Stories of Gentrification in Video Games” (Zoom)
- 15th May, Astrid Ensslin, „Game Studies und DH: eine Einführung“ (virtuelle Ringvorlesung „Trends der Digital Humanities“)
- 22nd May, Astrid Ensslin, „(De)koloniale Navigationsmechaniken in Videospielen“ (Ringvorlesung „Colonialism: Different Approaches and Different Areas“)
- 5th June, Astrid Ensslin, “Virtuelle Realitäten als mögliche Körperwelten” (Ringvorlesung “Fake or Fact: Kulturen des Fälschens von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart”)