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:
- 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”)