Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education
June 12, 2025 @ 08:00 - June 13, 2025 @ 17:00
Erasmus+ ROCKET is co-organizing a seminar for educators, practitioner, and researchers in Visby, Sweden on June 12-13, 2025!
The Transformative Play Initiative at Uppsala University’s Department of Game Design is co-hosting a two-day seminar on Games, Conflict, and Education directly following the Gotland Game Conference (GGC) in Visby, Sweden together with the Erasmus+ ROCKET consortium. The seminar invites educators, researchers, and design practitioners to present work related to conflicts within games, their associated communities, and/or game-based learning environments.
The seminar is an Erasmus+ ROCKET project Outreach Event and is co-organized with members of Uppsala’s Political Science and Peace & Conflict Studies departments. ROCKET is a Cooperation Partnership between Göttingen, Uppsala, and Groningen University in the ENLIGHT network on the use of conflict transformation through role-playing in Critical Virtual Exchange for diversity, equity, and inclusion in EU universities.
Presenters have the option of submitting an academic article for consideration in a peer-reviewed special issue of the International Journal of Role-playing.
Deadline for abstract submissions: January 3, 2025
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Learn more about the Games & Society Lab: https://www.uu.se/…/game…/research/games–society-lab
Learn more about Gotland Game Conference: https://gotlandgameconference.com/2024/
Learn more about the Transformative Play Initiative: https://www.uu.se/…/rese…/transformative-play-initiative