Conference Program
May 27, 2025 (Tuesday)
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9:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:30 Official opening
Room F-301
Introduction:
🔵 Oleg Y. Solodukhin, First Deputy Dean of Faculty of Creative Industries, Professor of Institute of Media and School of Communications, Adviser to Rector, HSE (Moscow)
Greetings:
🔵Oleg A. Dmitriev, Deputy Director, Professor of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
🔵Grigoriy V. Prutskov, Head of the Center of Scientific Competences Development, Professor of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
🔵Vladimir A. Obruchev, Head of Computer and Popular Science Literature at «Bombora» publishing house
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10:30–17:30 PLENARY SESSION «To play game studies, press CONTINUE. Rebooting knowledge within the context of video games»
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10:30–13:10
Room F-301
Moderators:
🔵Yulia S. Appolonova, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
🔵Maria A. Shteynman, Candidate of Philology, Professor of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
Presentations:
🔵Alexander S. Vetushinsky, Head of «Game Design», B&D Institute (Moscow)
New Dictionary of Video Game Researcher
🔵Konstantin A. Ocheretyanyi, Candidate of Philosophy, Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Critical Cultural Theory, HSE (St. Petersburg)
The Production of Absence: Aspects of Pre-predicative Experience in Computer Games
🔵Alexei S. Salin, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor of School of Design, HSE (Moscow)
Adventures of the Adventurous Chronotope in Literature, Film and Video Games
🔵Ekaterina A. Alexeyeva, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy Faculty, GAUGN (Moscow)
Computer Games and Experimental Philosophy
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13:10–13:30 Coffee Break
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13:30–14:50 «Narrative Games and Game Narratives»
Room F-301
Moderators:
🔵Dmitry А. Terekhov, Senior Lecturer of Institute of Media, Doctoral Student of School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, HSE (Moscow)
🔵Maria A. Shteynman, Candidate of Philology, Professor of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
Presentations:
🔵Yulia S. Appolonova, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
Inside the Web, Not Everyone Knows I'm Human: Existential Problems of Human-Machine Communication
🔵Alexei E. Masalov, Candidate of Philology, Senior Lecturer of Department of Theoretical and Historical Poetics, RSUH (Moscow)
Playing Storytelling: Narrative Factors of Dynamic Form and Metagaming
🔵Ilya V. Fomin, Senior Lecturer of Institute of Media, Doctoral Student of School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, HSE (Moscow)
Playing Almost the Same Thing: Storytelling in Interactive Cinematic Adaptations
🔵Maria A. Shteynman, Candidate of Philology, Professor of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
"Medievalism" Concept in Game Narrative
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14:50–15:30 Break
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15:30–16:30 «Phenomenology of the Video Game Myth»
Room F-301
Moderators:
🔵Maksym A. Podwalny, Lecturer, B&D Institute (Moscow), Associate of «Moscow Game Center»
🔵Ilya V. Fomin, Senior Lecturer of Institute of Media, Doctoral Student of School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, HSE (Moscow)
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🔵Daniil A. Baturin, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Department of Philosophy, Media and Journalism, UTMN (Tyumen)
The Sacred Mythologem of the Goddess-Woman in Video Games
🔵Maksym A. Podwalny, Lecturer, B&D Institute (Moscow), Associate of «Moscow Game Center»; Christina D. Vladimirova, 4th Year Bachelor Student, B&D Institute (Moscow)
An Abundance of Ruins: The Aesthetics of Decay, Abandonment, and Oblivion in Video Games
🔵Dmitriy O. Riabov, Candidate of Political Science, Associate Professor of Department of Political Science and International Affairs, HSE (St. Petersburg)
How to Play the Apocalypse? 'The End of Times' in the Tabletop Wargame 'Warhammer Fantasy Battles' (2015)
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16:30–16:50 Break
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16:50–17:50 «Game Studies: Philosophical Optics»
Room F-301
Moderators:
🔵Stanislav V. Milovidov, Senior Lecturer of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
🔵Maria A. Shteynman, Candidate of Philology, Professor of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
Presentations:
🔵Alexander N. Kopanev, Junior Researcher, MAE RAS (Kunstkamera) (St. Petersburg)
Video Game Studies Through the Prism of the Anthropology of Movement: How Humans Conquer Cyberspace
🔵Dmitry А. Terekhov, Senior Lecturer of Institute of Media, Doctoral Student of School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, HSE (Moscow)
In Soviet Russia, The Game Studies You: On the Soviet Project of Game Research
🔵Stanislav V. Milovidov, Senior Lecturer of Institute of Media, HSE (Moscow)
Game Art: Video Games and Multisensory Narratives
May 28, 2025 (Wednesday)
10:30–11:50 «Languages of Video Game Narrative»
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10:30–11:50 «Performativity and Gaming Practices»
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11:50–12:10 Break
12:10–13:30 «Video Games as a Mirror of Culture»
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12:10–13:30 «Psychology (and) Play»
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13:30–14:10 Break
14:10–15:50 «How Video Games Expand the Reality»
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14:10–15:50 «Gamification and Artificial Intelligence»
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15:50–16:10 Break