The department of Game Design at Uppsala University, campus Gotland
We use our ever-growing network to lure speakers from the game- & movie industry, academia and independent scene to the island. Unfortunately we’re very poor with keeping this category up to date; including the Gotland Game Conference we average 1 guest lecture every 14th day! Some of these are recorded – check the youtube channel. If you wish to speak with Sweden’s strongest game design students (or their staff), contact Ulf!
Peter is coming here to talk about:
Time: Tuesday, November 10 13.00-16.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E22
With apologies for the extremely short notice we wish to announce Robert Nyberg from Swedish Starbreeze Studios who’s coming tomorrow!
Robert Nyberg has been the human resources manager at Starbreeze Studios for the past four years. As such, he’s the guy with final say in all recruitments and staff policies.
Robert will do two talks in succession, the first one on practical advice for how to get a job in the gaming industry. The second one will be about quality assurance in the Starbreeze production pipeline; what happens when an error is discovered and how is it remedied during production?
Time: Friday, Oktober 23 13.00-15.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E22
Some of the 21st century´s greatest challenges are reflected in Turkey – EU relations; the widening gap between the West and the Muslim world and the struggle for human rights and democratization. Will Turkey become EU´s bridge or barrier to Islam? Which human rights issues might become a road block to Turkish EU?
Ann Dismorr, current head of the International Department of the Riksdag, has been a Swedish diplomat since 1981 and a ambassador since 1999. As such she’s served in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Libanon.
The title of her talk (the final one in Human Rights and Diversity in Serious Game) is “Turkey Decoded; The European Union and Islam.”
Time: Monday, Oktober 26 13.00-15.00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E31
He will also discuss how the respect for human rights is being affected by this trade. He will put Swedish exports of JAS Gripen, airborne surveillance and armored vehicles into an international human rights perspective.
Time: Friday, October 23, 10:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E31