Here’s our forward planner for open meetings in the summer semester 2025 (for questions: kontakt@daslab-ur.de):

  • 12.03.: Introductions; research reports, forward planning
  • 26.03.: Kübra Aksay: Journalists and journalism in games
  • 09.04.: Sabine Slowik: The „Ständegesellschaft“ in Pentiment
  • 10.-11.04.: Eco-Chronotopes Workshop (Astrid Ensslin, Anne Brüske, Mareike Schumacher)
  • 23.04.: Immersion in Video Games – The Halo Series and the Role of eSports (Ronny Retschmeier)
  • 07.05.: StoryMachine presentation (Astrid Ensslin, Sabine Slowik)
  • 15.-16.05.: DIMAS-Kickoff (Roman Birke, Melanie Sadozai, Anna Steigemann, Sebastian Richter, Barbara Wimmer-Bulin)
  • 21.05.. Guest workshop AR design (t.b.c.)
  • 04.06.: Lightning talks; DiGRA papers (Sebastian Richter, Kübra Aksay et al.)
  • 18.06.: Samya Brata Roy: Guest talk/workshop
  • 02.07.: (DiGRA Malta)
  • 09.07.: (ELO Toronto)
  • 16.07.: (t.b.c.)
  • 30.07.: End-of-term event (t.b.c.)

DAS|LAB meetings in the Winter Semester 2024:

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”)