Speakers

Dr Emma Fraser is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Media Studies and the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. Emma’s research considers games and play across sociology, geography, game studies and media and cultural theory. Emma also researches and writes about space and place, modern ruins, and visual media in relation to urban experience and the writings of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. Emma teaches digital media methods, digital storytelling, game studies, and new media theory and practice to graduate and undergraduate students.

Dr Tine Rassalle currently works as curator at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE) in New Orleans. She’s an expert on the material culture of ancient Judaism and Christianity, with a specific focus on religious architecture and artifacts. Prior to joining MSJE, Tine earned a BA and MA in Archaeology of the Ancient Near East from Ghent University (Belgium), a BA in Hebrew and Aramaic Cultures from Leiden University (the Netherlands), and a PhD in Ancient Mediterranean Religions from UNC Chapel Hill (USA). Tine is also an avid archaeogamer and has been presenting and publishing on this topic for the past seven years. You can follow her on Twitter @Tine_Rass.

Daniela De Angeli is the creative director of the community interest company Echo Games where she designs ‘seriously fun’ games that educate, stimulate critical reflection, bring awareness, tell important stories, and have a positive impact on society. Daniela has more than 13 years of experience as a game, graphic and interaction designer. She worked for museums and cultural organisations all around the world, including the New Mexico History Museum in the USA, The Ruhr Museum in Germany, the British Museum in the UK, the National Trust UK, and the National Geographic. Her works take theories from a variety of disciplines - from psychology and human-computer interaction to museology and memory studies - and translate them into game mechanics and narratives to fit different purposes.

Adam Chapman (Chair) is a former senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg currently working as an independent scholar. His research focuses on historical games, i.e. those games that in some way represent, or relate to, discourses about the past. He is the author of Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice (Routledge 2016), alongside a number of other publications exploring games as a historical form. He has been writing on the topic of historical games since 2009 and is also the founder of the Historical Game Studies Network. Adam can be contacted on Twitter at @Woodlandstaar.

Environments in Historical Games