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!
Lennart Koskinen holds a doctorate from Uppsala University in Ethics, and returns to discuss moral and ethics in contemporary society. Moral and ethics is of fundamental importance for the development of serious gaming.
Time: Wednesday, October 14, 13:00 – 15:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E31
Note: this is a re-post of our original announcement, as we had to postpone Eliasson’s scheduled visit due to illness.
Jan Eliasson is a seasoned diplomat and a former Swedish Foreign Minister. He has been the President of the UN General Assembly, and served as UN:s first Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs. During his tenure, he was involved in UN operations in Somalia, Sudan, Mocambique, and the Balkans; undertaking initiatives concerning landmines, conflict prevention and UN reform.
He will make an exposé over the human rights area and the creation of the UN Commission for Human Rights during his tenure as President of the UN General Assembly. The world community’s responsibility to protect civilians in war and other crisis will be highlighted. Eliasson will also tell us about his various missions as UN negotiator, the challenges for the UN to prevent war and conflict and to avoid human catastrophes.
New time: Monday, Oktober 12, 16:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E31
The eight lecture in our series for Human Rights and Diversity in Serious Game is held by former Swedish ambassador Börje Ljunggren.
Börje‘s been our ambassador to both China (02-06) and Vietnam (94-97). He is currently the chair person of the China Forum and the SEB Asia Council and also on the board of the Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and is an associate of Harvard University Asia Center as well as the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. His latest book “China; the drama of time” was published in 2008.
China’s lack of respect for human rights is a challenge to the world. Will China’s integration into the world economy and the world community ultimately result in China becoming a democracy or will China remain an authoritarian state going it’s own way. How resiliant is Chinese authoritarianism?
Time: Friday, October 9 10:00-12:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E31
For those of you who are new to the show: Ernest Adams is one of our many live-from-the-industry lecturers. He’s been in the game industry since 1989 and currently works as a free lance game designer, writer and teacher. You all ought to know the name; his Fundamentals of Game Design has been a staple in our game design courses for years. He’s written four books in total and he has developed online, computer, and console games for everything from the IBM 360 mainframe to the Nintendo Wii. Ernest is also the founder and first chairman of the International Game Developers’ Association and a popular speaker at conferences and arts festivals around the world.
And now; our man Ernest is back again for more lectures! 😀
On Monday he’s doing an exercise with the first-years, which will include a week worth of homework (due Friday that week). On Wednesday he’s giving a lecture based on the massively popular “Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!“-columns. This is a lighthearted look at some common design errors in both current and older games, divided into bad conceptual design, bad game mechanics, bad user interface design, bad programming, bad level design, and bad content. This lecture will have a particular emphasis on physics and action games.
First year students
Time: Monday, October 5 09:00-12:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall B25/B27
Second year students
Time: Wednesday, October 7 09:00-12:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall E22
First year students
Time: Friday, October 9 09:00-12:00
Location: HGO, lecture hall B25/B27