This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Can play be transformative of individuals and collectives, groups and cultures? And if so what characteristics make it so? Taking…
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: My name is Kaya Toft Thejls and I am a master’s student at The Centre for Gender Studies, Uppsala University.…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: The main research topic of this paper is “Murder Mystery Game” (MMG), which is very popular among the Chinese highly…
This presentation was delivered on October 20, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Walking simulators are an odd videogame genre. Due to their lack of remarkable gameplay features, one may be inclined to…
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: In recent years, as Dungeons and Dragons has entered the mainstream American cultural zeitgeist, the use of Role Playing Games…
This presentation was delivered on October 21, 2022 at the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2022: Role-playing, Culture, and Heritage. Description: Queer experience has, until very recently, been invisible or significantly misrepresented in cultural and scholarly fields of record including history,…
Enjoy this third (3) of three (3) Lightning Talks from the Spring 2022 Town Hall Meeting in the Transformative Play Initiative Event Series: “RPGs as a Leadership Practice” by Joe Lasley! Lightning talks are meant to spark conversation in our…
Enjoy this second (2) of three (3) Lightning Talks from the Spring 2022 Town Hall Meeting in the Transformative Play Initiative Event Series: “Larp and Conflict Transformation” by Shirin Khosropour, Charlotte Gullick, and Laila Taraghi! Lightning talks are meant to…
Enjoy this first (1) of three (3) Lightning Talks from the Spring 2022 Town Hall Meeting in the Transformative Play Initiative Event Series: “Games and Play for Intercultural Learning” by Alexandra Schreiber! Lightning talks are meant to spark conversation in…
Enjoy our next lecture in the Spring 2022 season of the Transformative Play Initiative Event Series: “To Play or Not to Play: Edu-Larp in Curricular Settings” by Katrin Geneuss! In this talk, Geneuss discusses her work co-designing and researching Student…