DAY 1 – 2 May 2024
08:30 Welcoming and registration - in front of the conference room
09:00 Opening speech – Pierre-Yves Hurel & Sophie Bémelmans (University of Lausanne)
09:30 Opening Keynote:
- Alex Wade (Birmingham City University) – Genealogies of videogame production, consumption and distribution in the English Midlands (Online) – Moderator: Yannick Rochat (University of Lausanne)
10:30 Coffee Break - in front of the conference room
10:45 PANEL 1: Local contexts – Moderator: Guillaume Guenat (University of Lausanne)
- Ani Gabrielyan (University of Lausanne) & Thibaut Vaillancourt (University of Konstanz / Paris Nanterre) – The intermedial and cultural genealogy of Nu, Pogodi! in the USSR, or why a clone is not just a clone (On-site)
- Regina Seiwald (University of Birmingham) – Happy Birthday, Tetris! Tracing the Game’s History within a Genealogy of Ludic Practices (On-site)
- Michael Conrad (University St. Gallen) – United by Code: The Cultural Impact of BASIC as a Glocalized Coding Language for Gaming Communities in East and West Germany during the 1980s (On-site)
12:15 Lunch Break - Amphimax cafeteria
13:45 PANEL 2: Archives & Preservation – Learning Games Initiative Research Archive’s (LGIRA) – Moderator: Selim Krichane (Swiss Museum of Games)
- Judd Ruggill (University of Arizona) – A Genealogy of Preservation (On-site)
- Ken S. McAllister (University of Arizona) – Local Hacking: Gaming Newsletters (On-site)
- Rolf Nohr (Braunschweig University of Arts) – The Ludic History of Business Simulations (Online)
15:15 Coffee Break
15:30 PANEL 3: Coding & Platforms genealogy – Moderator: Sophie Bémelmans (University of Lausanne)
- Adrian Demleitner (Bern University of the Arts) – Programming and Becoming – Tracing video game programming practices in 1980 and -90ies’ Switzerland (On-site)
- David Murphy (Staffordshire University) – Platforms, Portable Consumer Electronics, and the Making of Sony’s PSP (Online)
- Tom Boellstorff & Braxton Soderman (University of California, Irvine) – From Toys to Technology: Mattel, Intellivision, and the Domestication of Videogames (Online)
DAY 2 – 3 May 2024
09:00 Welcoming - in front of the conference room
09:30 PANEL 4: Within & Beyond borders – Moderator: Arno Görgen (Bern Academy of the Arts)
- Luciana Lima & Tehri Marttila (Interactive Technologies Institute, Lisbon) – From the Arcade Room to Portuguese Homes: An Analysis of the Early Computer Games Made in Portugal (1983-1992) (Online)
- Larissa Wild & David Krummenacher (Zurich University of the Arts, University of Lausanne) – National Games : Looking beyond national borders (On-site)
10:30 Coffee Break - in front of the conference room
11:00 PANEL 5: Writing of history studies – Moderator: Eugen Pfister (Bern Academy of the Arts)
- Ewa Swietlik (C2DH, University of Luxembourg) – Narratives of video game history in amateur museums (On-site)
- Boris Krywicki (Liège Game Lab, University of Liège) – An inescapable period of hindsight? Journalistic investigation as a way of raising awareness of the cultural and historical value of the first video games (On-site)
12:00 Lunch Break - Amphimax cafeteria
13:30 PANEL 6: Discourses and Paratexts – Moderator: Aurelia Brandenburg (Bern Academy of the Arts)
- Michael Wagnières (University of Lausanne) – Learning to play video games in the emerging home market: A typology of paper manual functions in the 1980s (On-site)
- Robin Bootes (Freelance researcher) – User Generated Content as representation and regulation – reader’s letters, and the early UK gaming magazine (Online)
- Francis Lavigne (LUDOV, University of Montréal) & Clément Personnic (University of Montréal) – Genealogies of 3D games: a conversation around the Sony Playstation (Online)
15:00 Coffee Break - in front of the conference room
15:30 ENDING KEYNOTE:
- Maria Garda (CoE, University of Turku) – Late but not least: lateness in video games history (On-site) – Moderator: Mela Kocher (Zurich University of the Arts)
16:30 Acknowledgements & Closure speech – Pierre-Yves Hurel & Guillaume Guenat (University of Lausanne)
EXTRA-LIFE : DAY 3 – 4 May 2024
A visit to the Swiss Museum of Games (La Tour-de-Peilz) will be organized on Saturday morning, 4 May. Please contact Pierre-Yves Hurel for further information.