Workshop Programme

Video Games at the Intersection of Postcolonialism, Postcommunism, and Globalisation

September 19, 2021, GMT +3 (Bucharest Time)

Online Workshop Programme

Panel 1 (Post)colonial Intersections	Panel 2 – Colonizing Other Worlds	Panel 3 – Variations of Colonialism: Postcommunism
11:00 – 11:30 Aline Job – “Representation Troubles of Women in Video Games: Colonial Gender Hierarchy”	13:00 – 13:30 Angshuman Dutta – “Colonising Space: Terra Nullius and No Man’s Sky”	15:00 – 15:30 Ştefan Baghiu – “Primordialism and the World System: Assassin’s Creed Between History and Fiction”
11:30 – 12:00 Ryan Kerr – “Shenmue II, Postcolonialism, and the Rise of Neoliberalism”	13:30 – 14:00 Karina Pătrăşcanu – “Posthumanist Concernsin the Colonial Construction of Human Occupation of Outer Space in the Science Fiction Video Game EVE Online”	15:30 – 16:00 Andrei Zănescu – “Counter-Balkanism in the Witcher: A Simulation of Cultural Identity”
12:00 – 12:30 Nicoleta Bleiu – “Post-colonial Representations of Trauma and Cultural Anxieties in Video Games Inspired by the Game of Thrones World”	14:00 – 14:30 Andrei Nae – “Colonial Perpetuation in the Silent Hill series”	16:00 – 16:30 Andrei Călinoaia – “Self-Exoticizing Iterations of Postcommunist Trauma in Black: The Fall”

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom. Attendees are asked to email one of the project’s collaborators, Ruxandra Gîdei, at ruxandra.gidei@yahoo.com in order to request the Zoom meeting link. The link will be provided 24 hours prior to the workshop.