Program

Thursday 16th of May, 2024

9:00 – Registration

9:15 – Welcome 

9:30-11:00 – Session 1

• J. Gutiérrez Carrera (Tampere University) "‘If not for Bassanio, maybe I would’ve married you instead!’: Character Changes in an Adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in the MMORPG Mabinogi"
• D. Ten Cate. (Utrecht University) "Genre Repetition as Subversive Adaptation in Elsinore and 80 Days"
• R. S. Abatangelo (University of Malta - Institute of Digital Games) "Going off script: Playing Shakespeare in Life is Strange: Before the Storm"

Pause

11:15-12:45 – Session 2

• S. Mukherjee  (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) "Jules Verne and Indian Independence: Remediating Postcolonial Science Fiction in Videogames"
• N. Valdivia Hennig (University of California Riverside) "Cross cultural chronicles Guaman Poma Meets Machiavelli in Pixel Art"
• P. D'Indinosante (Sapienza University of Rome - University of Silesia) "Playing (Jungle) Books, Going Wild(e): Playful Irreverence in Video Game Adaptations of Kipling and Wilde’’

12:45-14:15 – Lunch

14:15-15:45 – Session 3

• B. Pérez Zapata (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Storyteller: playful and subversive variations on universal literature"
• H.-J. Backe (University of Copenhague) "Narrative / Puzzle / Game On Ludo-Narrative Agency Poetics"
• A. Waszkiewicz (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) "What Does It Matter In the End: Interactivity and the Literary Resonance in Video Games Adaptations"

15:45-16:30 – Meeting of the GamesLit Board

Dinner in Rouen  

Friday 17^th of May, 2024

9:00-10:30 – Session 4

• L. Moyzhes (Charles University) "Forbidden to forbid lack of affordances for creating stories of forbidden love in Warhammer 40 000: Rogue Trader and Dragon Age: Inquisition."
• R. Longobardi Zingarelli, (Brunel University London/University of Malta) "Attempted subversion: Transgender features and characters in Hogwarts Legacy and Cyberpunk 2077"
• P. Sidhu (University of Sidney) "Playing with rules and Boundaries: Adapting George Orwell’s Animal Farm into a Dungeons & Dragons One-Shot"

Pause

11:00-12:30 Session 5

• A. Mochocka, (Kazimierz Wielki University) "Gaming illuminated manuscripts in Inkulinati and Pentiment"
• B. Dupont & H. Sellier (KU. Leuven -The Seed Crew) "Burn a book – Kill a poem – Plunder Goethe. A biblioclast’s look into the history of media imaginary"
• M. Fuchs (Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media) "Text-based Role-Play in the 13th Century"

12:30-14:00 – Lunch 

14:00-15:30 – Session 6

• S. Chatterjee  (University of Delhi) "Reshaping narratives Redefining Legends: A Comparative Analysis of Raji: An Ancient Epic and Devīmāhātmya"
• A. Klęczar (Jagiellonian University) "Sing of Zagreus, o Muse. The subversion of mythological and literary tradition of ancient Greece and Rome in Hades"
• B. Pérez Zapata (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) "Fidelity as subversion: La Abadía del Crimen in the context of microcomputer adventure games"

Pause

16:00-17:30 – Session 7

• T. Majkowski, A. Prokopek, M. Kozyra, (Jagiellonian University) "Pan Twardeusz: CD Projekt Red and Polish Mandatory Canon"
• R. Walczak (Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego) "Secondary worlds intertextuality and embedding: literary phenomena and narratological devices in Polish game Rex and the Wizards"
• J. Goh (University of Santo Tomas) "“I was called here by humans who wish to pay me tribute”: Remapping the Gothic and Horror Iterations of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997) in Videogame Discourse"