Here’s our forward planner for open meetings in the summer semester 26
(Tuesdays, fortnightly, 10-11:30am; Zoom link to be sent upon request: kontakt@daslab-ur.de):
| DATE | EVENT / TOPIC / TITLE | PRESENTERS / HOSTS |
| 21.4 | Designing Archetypal Chatbots for a Carnevalesque Narrative Game | Oscar Aquite-Pena / Astrid Ensslin |
| 30.4 | Postdigital Network Traveling Lecture: Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam), “Social Chatbots, Character, and the Postdigital“ | Anna-Lena Eick, Astrid Ensslin et al.: https://www.network-postdigital.com/tls |
| 5.5 | Playing Session: King of the Castle (Part 1) | Sebastian R. Richter |
| 7.5 | Keynote at “Born Digital”-Workshop, Uni Stuttgart | Astrid Ensslin |
| 19.5 | Playing Session: King of the Castle (Pt. 2) Kinderuni: The Language of Gaming | Sebastian R. Richter Astrid Ensslin |
| 2.6 | Bachelor Thesis Presentation | Marco Schreiner |
| 16.6 | Whiteboard Introduction | Sebastian R. Richter |
| 29.6, 18:30h | Postdigital Network Traveling Lecture: Florian Cramer, “Post-digital revisited. Is a term that always sucked still useful?” | Anna-Lena Eick, Astrid Ensslin et al.: https://www.network-postdigital.com/tls |
| 30.6 | Thesis update: Existential Boundaries and Failure in Videogames | Sebastian R. Richter |
| 14.7 | Student presentations (t.b.c.) | Astrid Ensslin |
| 15.-18.7 | ELO Online Conference, e.g. Sebastian |
Open meetings in the winter semester 2025/26:
| DATE | EVENT / TOPIC / TITLE | HOSTS |
| 24.9. | Forward planning | Astrid Ensslin |
| 08.10. | Let’s Talk About Methods in Digital Culture (practical workshop) | Sebastian R. Richter |
| 15.10. | Visit from GameDev e.V. Regensburg | Astrid Ensslin |
| 22.10. | WoW/Pandaria/Orcs | Marco Schreiner |
| 05.11. | Kübra’s mock defense (with presentation) | Kübra Aksay, Astrid Ensslin, Sebastian R. Richter |
| 14.11. | Archetypes-Workshop | Laura Niebling Astrid Ensslin |
| 19.11. | Guest talk Piotr Kallas: “Challenges of reading, studying and teaching literature and literary translation in the age of the internet, smartphones and artificial intelligence” | Astrid Ensslin Patrick Leimgruber (Anglistik) |
| 03.12. | Barnabás Springer / Pietro Noceti: Hungarian folklore and game design | Sebastian Richter, Astrid Ensslin |
| 17.12. | Xmas digicrafts with Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth | Astrid Ensslin |
| 08.01. | Evening: AE to present on digital fiction in UBielefeld virtual lecture series: “Ästhetische Erfahrung im Internet” | Astrid Ensslin |
| 14.01. | „Posthuman Critical Making: A Reflection“ | Jason Nelson & Alinta Krauth |
| 28.01. | “Myths and Monsters of AI” | Thomas Nyckel |
| 04.02. | 16:15-17:45h: Talk on Digital Folklore in FIDS Ring-VL “Informatik und Gesellschaft” (in German) | Astrid Ensslin |
| 11.02. | StoryMachine hands-on pilot session | Sabine Slowik / Astrid Ensslin |
| 25.02. | Gabriele de Seta: Algorithmic folklore: A global history. | Astrid Ensslin / Sabine Slowik |
| 11.03. | 13-14:30h: Guest talk, La Selva: Indigenous game design (Colombia) | Oscar Aquite-Pena |
| 18.03. | „Ernste Spiele: Ästhetik, Ethik und Politik ludischer Verfahren in Literatur und Kunst“ | Dr. Regine Strätling (Romanistik, UR) |
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
- 10.-11.04.: Eco-Chronotopes Workshop (Astrid Ensslin, Anne Brüske, Mareike Schumacher, Oscar Aquite-Pena)
- 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.: Voices debugging (en-de Übersetzung) (Simone Blessing, Christine Wilks)
- 04.06.: DH Summer School Modena (Astrid Ensslin)
- 11.06.: 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.: Sabine Slowik – The early modern estate society in Pentiment
- 30.07.: Workshop: „shARed spaces and AR in public space“ (Prof. Dr. Lisa Birke, University of Saskatchewan)
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”)