It is as usual on the Jean Jaurès University site that the video game conferences will be held, the detailed program of which can be found on the Romain Vincent site.
Saturday October 8 – room 6
09:00 Introduction: The sea in video games – Presentation of the Video Games & History weekend – Mehdi Debbabi-Zourgani, Julien Lalu, Romain Vincent.
09:30 Representing the Navy of the Third Reich in simulation games since the 1980s – Marouane Chaffoui (University of Angers)
10:30 a.m. The sea, an unknown to be tamed? The merchant imagination of Anno games – Aurore Noury, doctoral student in comparative literature and narratology (EHESS-CRAL)
11:30 a.m. The Iranian video game as a vector for new spatial representations of naval forces on the sea – Mohamed Bechikhi, doctoral student at Sorbonne University
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Playconference: The Titanic in a video game – Titanic, Honor & Glory – Antoine Resche (Histony) historian, Nicolas Murgia, Historical Art Director on Titanic, Honor & Glory, Romain Vincent doctoral student in education sciences.
Sunday October 9 – Auditorium 3
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Musical representations of the sea: Discussion at the crossroads between semiological theory and historical practice – Mehdi Debbabi-Zourgani, educational manager at Isart Digital, Olivier Derivière, composer of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, Antoine Morisset, ludomusicologist
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Conclusion and discussions around the theme “The sea” in history and video games – Mehdi Debbabi-Zourgani, educational manager at Isart Digital, Julien Lalu, historian and Romain Vincent, doctoral student in education sciences .
It should be noted that from Friday, an additional conference will also have as its theme the representation of sea monsters in video games:
Friday 07 October – Amphi 2
15:30 – 16:15 From survival to management: deluges and underwater monsters in prehistoric video games – B.Efrati, doctoral student at EHESS and associate researcher at the National Library of France
Half of the seats for each conference can be booked online, knowing that all the conferences are of course free of charge.