Day 1, Monday April the 28th

time	program
8:30	Registration, Pinni A Building, Paavo Koli Hall
9:00	Welcoming words (Frans Mäyrä) Commentator statement by Jesper Juul: Game Studies after the Box Model
9:30 – 11	Session 1: History of Game Studies Jaakko Suominen, How to Represent The History of Digital Games Ashley Brown & J.Tuomas Harviainen, The Puberty of Games Studies: What Studies of Sexuality in Games Tell Us about The Growth of The Field Jaakko Stenros, The Game Definition Game: A Review of the Meanings of “Game”
11:30 – 13	Session 2: Play Studies Casey O’Donnell, On Balinese Cockfights: Deeply Extending Play Sébastien Genvo, Toward a Constructivist Ludology: A Link between Play and Studies Vincent Berry & Samuel Coavoux, Competing Models of Cultural Consumption for “Play Studies”: Video Games through the Lens of The Sociology of Culture
13 – 14	lunch
14 – 15:30	Session 3: Interdisciplinary Game Studies Sebastian Deterding, The Expectable Rise, Pyrrhic Victory, and Designerly Future of Game Studies as an Interdiscipline William Huber, Game Studies in the Humanities: A Diagnosis Samuel Coavoux, Vinciane Zabban and Manuel Boutet, Beyond WoW Studies. A Scientometric Approach to Game Studies through Video Game Genres
16 – 17	Keynote: Espen Aarseth, A World Without Ludology (Location change: Pinni B Building, Lecture Hall B1096)
17 –	Social program

Day 2, Tuesday April 29th

time	program
9:00	Registration: Pinni A Building, Paavo Koli Hall
9:30	Bart Simon, Unserious: Game Studies’ Failed Promise and the Rise of the Maker-Critic
10 – 12	Session 4: Rules/Formal Ivan Mosca,What is it like to be a player? Against rule reductionism Riccardo Fassone, Authority and The Machine. Thoughts on The Role of The Player in A Proceduralist Reading of Gameplay Petri Lankoski & Staffan Björk, Formal Analysis of Gameplay
12 – 13	lunch
13 – 14:30	Session 5: Audience & Aesthetic Toby Smethurst, Playing with Trauma and the Trauma of Play Diane Carr, Ability in Digital Games Rory Summerley, What Motivates the Spectatorship of Play?
14:30 – 15	break
15 – 16:30	Session 6: Impact of Games Patrick Prax & Juho Karvinen, Lifting the Eyes from the Individual: Problematic Gaming in Social Context Pascaline Lorentz, Social Contributions of Video Gaming for Gamers’ Social Life Sara Mosberg Iversen, Ageing Adults and Digital Games: The State of Research