Events

October 20, 2025
Panel The Metaverse Revisited: Hybrid Talk Onsite and in VR (with Michael Barngrover, Michael Wiesing, Sylvia Pan, Christina “Xaos Princess” Kinne), VR Summit Bochum, Ruhr University Bochum, 17 Uhr (online)

September 25, 2025
Closing Keynote Playing the Future: In War and Peace, Transformations – Dynamics of Change in Media Environments, Cologne Game Lab, TH Köln, 4 pm

May 30, 2025
Panel Future of Game Culture Studies (with Kishonna Gray, Aphra Kerr, Frans Mäyrä, Velvet Spors), Festival of Game Culture, May 29 – 31, Center of Excellence in Game Culture at Paidia, Nokia Arena, Suvantokatu 7, 33100 Tampere, Finland, 10-11 am

February 17, 2025
Talk Utopian Audio Visions in the Future’s Modern History: From the Total Work of Art to the Metaverse, Université Paris 8, 6:30 pm

November 21 – 23
Keynote Literatur und Spiel. Skizze einer historischen Theorie, Internationale Fachtagung Brettspiele im Mittelalter / Das Mittelalter im Brettspiel, University Freiburg, Switzerland, November 23, 1:45 pm – 2:30 pm

April 11
Closing Keynote Emerging Life at and in the Virtual Frontier, Game Studies Day at the Now Play This Festival – A Festival of Experimental Game Design, London, Somerset House, 4:30 pm (online).

November 16-17, 2023
Co-organization of the conference Spiel | Museum: Ein Brückenschlag, at the NS Dokumentationszentrum Cologne (November 16) and at the Cologne Game Lab of the TH Koeln (November 17).

April 13, 2023
Keynote Utopian Audio Visions in the Future’s Modern History: From the Total Work of Art to the Metaverse, Subotron Arcademy, MuseumsQuartier / Q21 / Raum D, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, 7 pm.

November 17, 2022
Presentation Starting an Institute for Game Development and Game Research, University of Arkansas, JBHT 207, 12:30 pm.

November 16, 2022
Keynote Utopian Audio Visions in the Future’s Modern History: From the Total Work of Art to the Metaverse, University of Arkansas, Giffels Auditorium in Old Main, 5 pm.