Category: events
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Spring Seminar 2025 Report
This post highlights the experiences of student volunteers at the annual Tampere University Game Research Lab’s Spring Seminar 2025, an academic event where researchers showcase their current projects and studies centered around this year’s theme – Arts and Games.
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Spring Seminar 2024 Report
By Antonio Pomposini, Daphne Bachmann, Joonas Palsio, Juan Belío, & Niilo Kajala This is a post sharing experiences of student volunteers for the Game Research Lab’s Spring Seminar 2024, a conference in Tampere where researchers in the field of Game Studies can present their ongoing projects to a select audience, following a chosen topic. Meta…
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Game Research Lab Fall 2023 Writing Retreat Report
There is a joke going around online pointing out that when academics use the word ‘retreat’, what they mean is an off-campus all-day meeting. On some level the Tampere University Game Research Lab Fall 2023 Writing Retreat fits that description. This two day event at the picturesque lakeside sauna at Varala brought together 21 game…
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Registration for Spring Seminar ‘Party!’ and Finnish Day of Game Studies
The registration for Tampere University Game Research Lab’s Spring Seminar ‘Party!’ is now open! The seminar is organized on Thursday and Friday 4–5 May and includes 20 research presentations, as well as keynotes from Mia Consalvo (Concordia University) and Olli Sotamaa (Tampere University). Read more and register at: https://springseminar.org. A day before the seminar on…
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Spring Seminar 2023: Party!
The theme of 19th Spring Seminar of Game Studies is ”Party!” You can find the call for papers link below – the deadline for extended abstracts is 20th January 2023: https://springseminar.org/2023-call-for-papers-party/.
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Celebrating Gamelab’s 20th anniversary!
As Tampere University Game Research Lab turns 20 this year, we wish to celebrate the past two decades of great research, education, and collaborations through a series of anniversary events! The events can be seen on our anniversary page: Game Research Lab’s 20th Anniversary. Mark them down in in your calendar and follow the page…
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Spring Seminar 2022: Gamebooks
The 18th Spring Seminar of Game Studies in Tampere will take place in 5-6 May, 2022. The theme of this seminar is “Gamebooks”. You can read more from the seminar website at https://springseminar.org/.
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Spring Seminar 2021: Monstrosity
The submission deadline for Spring Seminar 2021 – Monstrosity – was on January 15, and we received 60 extended abstracts – an unprecedented amount in the history of the seminar. The seminar dates are April 20-22, 2021. You can find more information about this, as well as other Gamelab Spring Seminars from the website: https://springseminar.org/.
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CFP: Immersive Experiences
The title of 16th Gamelab Spring Seminar was “Immersive Experiences” and it was planned to take place 30-31 March, 2020. Due to the global Coronavirus epidemic, the seminar was CANCELLED. For more, see the new website, at: https://springseminar.org/.
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DiGRA 2020
The DiGRA 2020 conference was announced in Kyoto, and this Digital Games Research Association’s world conference was planned to take place in Tampere, co-organised by Gamelab and the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies. The conference was unfortunately CANCELLED, due to the global Coronavirus epidemic. For more information, see the conference website: www.digra2020.org.