That’s really all for this year! Thank you for joining #MAMG25, whether as speakers, participants, or both! The conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean you cannot go forward with reading all the awesome papers that have been delivered this year, and with asking more questions to their authors!
Time for conclusions for #MAMG25! Please join us for the concluding remarks on this year ‘The Middle Ages in Modern Games’ conference, with Robert Houghton delivering them, by the title ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’. Read it here: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=1065
10 minutes to go before going forward with the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton on what the latest #MAMG25 has delivered to us! Join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’!
That was all for our last Keynote Lecture! But #MAMG25 is not over yet! We will take a break now, but please join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton, looking at what this year’s immersion in medievalist games has given us, and what it could give us in the future!
The time for our second (and last) Keynote Lecture has come! William Chen speaks at #MAMG25 about ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Come read and ask your questions: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=900
Time for #MAMG25 last Keynote Lecture: William Chen will talk to us about the power of modding and the possibilities it offers with his paper ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Join us in 10 minutes!
We have a slightly longer break now, then please join us again at 2pm (UTC+1) for our second keynote for #MAMG25, delivered by William Chen: ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government...'
That’s a wrap for the Globalism and Religion panel! Thank you so much to our presenters: Hirohito Tsuji, Ron Heckler, and Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo, and to everyone joining in with questions and comments! #MAMG25
Final paper for this #MAMG25 session on Globalism and Religion is ‘The Eternal Presence of Holy War: The Procedural Rhetoric of Jihad and Crusade in Total War: Medieval 2’, by Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo. Come read and ask your questions in the comments: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=881
The Globalism and Religion panel is starting now with a paper on ‘Religious Tensions: The Itatehyōzu Shrine in Assassin's Creed Shadows’ by @tsujihirohito.bsky.social, check it out on the website here: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=877 #MAMG25
Just 10 minutes to go before we start our second panel for today, Globalism and Religion, at 12pm (UTC+1)! While you wait, check out all the awesome papers on our website from the last two days of #MAMG25 using the programme with links: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
Thanks so much to all our presenters in Friday’s first panel for #MAMG25, Jéssica Iolanda Costa Bispo, Simone Fleres, Roderick Dale and Markus Mindrebø! We have a short rest now, then we’ll be back for our second session, Globalism and Religion, at 12pm (UTC+1)!
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Starting today’s first #MAMG25 panel is the paper ‘Female Voices in a Medieval-Inspired Universe: a Brief Comparative Study of the Representation of Women in The Witcher Books and Video Games’ by Jéssica Iolanda Costa Bispo. It’s live on the site: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=815
The third and final day of #MAMG25 is about to begin! Head over to our website to check out the programme, and read two days of great papers, and our first panel for today, Fantasy Medievalism in The Witcher, will start in just 10 minutes at 10am (UTC+1)! middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
Thanks to all our panelists! That’s a wrap in our second day at #MAMG25. We will be back tomorrow at 10.00 UCT+1 with our panel on Fantasy Medievalism in The Witcher. In the meantime, please do catch up with the papers and continue asking question #MAMG25
Thank you for your paper Simone. Our final paper of this panel is by Blair Apgar (@BlairApgar , @blairapgar.bsky.social )and titled “Framing the Other Within: Sebhat of Sadai, Narrative Legibility, and Ethiopian Manuscript Aesthetics in Pentiment” #MAMG25
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Thank you very much for your paper Johansen. Our second paper is by Simone Vitolo and titled “L’era dei rumors e il razzismo: Kingdom Come Deliverance II” #MAMG25
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Welcome back! In just 10 minutes, we will continue with our final panel on the second day of #MAMG25 with a panel on Race and Culture, with papers by @QuijanoPhD (@quijanophd.bsky.social), Simone Vitolo, and @BlairApgar (@blairapgar.bsky.social)
The first paper is at 18.00 UTC+1
Thanks to all our panelists! Lots to think about after 3 insightful contributions. We have a break now, and we are back at 18.00 UTC+1 with our session on Race and Culture. In the meantime, please do catch up with the papers and continue asking question #MAMG25
Thank you very much for your paper, Lucas and Patrick. Our final paper of this panel is by Merle Stratmann and titled “We can be heroes, just for one day: Concepts of history in LARP” #MAMG25
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Thank you very much for your paper, Stephen. Our second paper is by Lucas Haasis and Patrick Heike (@lhaasis.bsky.social and @patrick1994.bsky.social) and titled “Teaching the 16th century with Pentiment” #MAMG25
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Hello everyone! In just 10 minutes we will continue with our fourth panel on the second day of #MAMG25 with our session on Participatory Heritage, with papers by Stephen Yeagar, @lhaasis.bsky.social , and @patrick1994.bsky.social , and Merle Stratmann.
The first paper goes live at 16.00 UTC+1
Thanks to all our panelists! Lots to think about after 3 insightful contributions. We have a break now, and we are back at 16.00 UTC+1 with our session on Participatory Heritage. In the meantime, please do catch up with the papers and continue asking question #MAMG25
Thank you very much for your paper, Renata. Our final paper of this panel is by Vinicius Marino Carvalho ( @vinicius-marino.bsky.social ) and titled “Gaming Beyond the ‘Commons’: Counter-Hegemonic Readings of Medievalist Tropes” #MAMG25
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Thank you very much for your paper, Robert. Our second paper is by Renata Lesniakiewicz-Drzymala (@RenLesDrzym) and titled “Stranger in Strange Lands: Eivor’s Encounter with the Mohawk Culture in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla” #MAMG25
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Hello everyone! In just 10 minutes, we will continue with our third panel on the second day of #MAMG25 with our session on Alternative Approaches to Globalism, with papers by @rousemedieval.bsky.social , @RenLesDrzym, and @vinicius-marino.bsky.social
The first paper will go live at 14.00 UTC+1
Thanks so much presenters for a fantastic second panel for Day 2 of #MAMG25: Shu Wan, Xinyu Kang, Yuantong Yun, @pratamaatmaja.bsky.social, Andreas Nugroho Sihananto, & Gredy Christian Hendrawan Putra! We have a longer break now, join us back at 2pm UTC+1 for ‘Alternative Approaches to Globalism’!
Final paper for this #MAMG25 panel is live: ‘How Civilization V Brings Historical Nations to the Global Stage: Analysis of the Game’s Majapahit-Era Indonesia’, by @pratamaatmaja.bsky.social, Andreas Nugroho Sihananto, & Gredy Christian Hendrawan Putra middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg25/how-c...
Time now for the second paper in the Eurocentric Globalism panel, ‘Pixel to Parallax: Low-Poly Cartographies of Medieval Spatial Narrative in Games’ by Xinyu Kang and Yuantong Yun, live now on the website: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=966 #MAMG25
The #MAMG25 Eurocentric Globalism panel begins now with the first paper ‘Harnessing Nature by Men: An Ecofeminist Critique of Age of Empires II’, by Shu Wan. It's live here, ready for your questions in the comments: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=974/
