Should you be in Copenhagen next Friday, Gitte Stald has arranged a seminar on death & violence in video games. Flyer.
Friday November 12, 2004
Conference Room 5.2.29a, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80
PROGRAMME:
09.15-09.25: Welcome
09.25-10.05: Gitte Stald – Perspectives on Fascination of Death and Violence in Games
10.05-10.45: Kjetil Sandvik – Game Characters with Scruples?
11.00-11.40: Susana Tosca – To Kill or not to Kill: the Butterfly Effect in Blade Runner
11.40-12.20: Troels Degn-Johansson – On Death and Destruction in Strategy Games
13.15-13.55: Jesper Juul – What the Game Means: About Grand Theft Auto 3
14.10-14.50: Charlie Breindahl – Racing Games
14.50-15.30: Jonas Heide Smith – Games, Peacocks, and the Theory of Conflict
I think I’ll go crazy… My TV-show will be on 23rd of November on Hungarian channel ?Fix.Tv? about ?video games and violence?. My heart is bleeding: this seminar could be an excellent opportunity to interview some experts, and to show Hungarian lookers how scientific communication about the topic looks like in Copenhagen!