538: The Middle Ages in Modern Games, I: Gender (9:00-10:30)
738: The Middle Ages in Modern Games, III: Fantasy (14:15-15:45)
• Gender (and its Historical Context) in Medievalist Video Games - Tess Watterson, University of Adelaide • The Patriarch in Assassin’s Creed II - Poppy Tester, University of Huddersfield • Reliving the Past through Digital Roleplay: Crisis and Gender in Assassin’s Creed Games - Chloe Anne Peters, Independent Scholar • Strong women or caring mother figures? Female characters in apocalyptic medieval settings using the example of A Plague Tale: Innocence - Ron Heckler, Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin
• A Crisis of Medievalism in the Total War Series – Jacob Morley, University of Edinburgh; University of St Andrews • Surviving As An Outsider in The World of Witcher 3 as Geralt of Rivia – Pratama Wirya Atmaja, University of Pembangunan National 'Veteran' Jawa Timur • Contested fantasies: Historical game studies, the Middle Ages, and the crisis of modernity – Vinicius Marino Carvalho, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo
838: The Middle Ages in Modern Games, IV: Constructing the Medieval (16:30-18:00) • Beyond the voice: the medieval sonic world of Pentiment -
638: The Middle Ages in Modern Games, II: Rome Mariana Lopez, University of York (11:15-12:45) • Virtù, Humours, and the psychology of the renaissance • The wisdom of the ancients in a time of medieval crisis? Roman Reception in Pentiment and Plague Tale - Kate Cook, University of St Andrews • ‘Remove Kebab’ and the ‘Byzantine Bro-gade’: A window on toxicity and Byzantine history through gaming - Maria Vrij, University of Birmingham • 'How far will you go to survive?': Survival Strategy and the Dark Ages in Total War: Attila - Robert Houghton, University of Winchester
soldier: Modelling decision-making in skirmishes through Force of Virtue - Samuel Gassmann, Trinity College Dublin • Ludic medievalisms as a curation process - James Baillie, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
938: The Middle Ages in Modern Games, V: An Adolescent Field? A Roundtable Discussion (19:0020:00) • Kate Cook, University of St Andrews • Vinicius Marino Carvalho, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo • Thom Gobbitt, Austrian Academy of Sciences • Tess Watterson, University of Adelaide