The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents
Re-Rolling the Past
Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games
Conference organized by Gabriel Mckee (ISAW) and Daniela Wolin (ISAW)
Friday, March 27 2020
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Second Floor Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
212.992.7800
SESSION I: ARCHAEOLOGY IN/OF GAMES
9:00am: Re-Rolling the Past: Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games
Gabriel Mckee (ISAW)
9:20am: Video Game Antiquity and the Immediacy of Digital Heritage
Andrew Reinhard (American Numismatic Society)
9:45am: Hounds and Jackals and its Variants in Modern Times
Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
10:10am:Game Spaces and Indexical Storytelling
Clara Fernandez-Vara (NYU Game Center)
SESSION II: GAMES AND PEDAGOGY
New Strategies for Teaching Old Games: Playful Approaches to Teaching Ancient Economic and Institutional History
10:55am: David Ratzan (ISAW)
11:20am: Knowledge Checks: Representing (and Teaching) the Ancient Near East through Gaming
Gina Konstantopoulos (University of Tsukuba)
11:45am: Gamifying Gamification at Pompeii
Sebastian Heath (ISAW)
12:10pm: Dwelling in Archaeology: Virtual Museum of Bamiyan in the Game Engine of PlayCanva
Mi Wang (ISAW)
SESSION III: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO GAME DESIGN
1:30pm: The Painful Art of Abstraction: Representing the Ancient World in Modern Games
Hamish Cameron (Victoria University of Wellington)
1:55pm: Systems, Theming and Accuracy in Representations of the Past in Games
Alexander King (NYU Game Center)
2:20pm: Gender Across the Board: Representations in Ancient World-Themed Games
Daniela Wolin (ISAW)
2:45pm: Assassin's Creed Origins as Time Machine
Christian Casey (ISAW)
3:10pm: From Agent Based Model to Analogue Archaeogame: How We Made FORVM: Trade Empires of Rome
Shawn Graham (Carleton University)
4:00pm: Panel Discussion
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at: isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp
Please check isaw.nyu.edu for event updates.
Re-Rolling the Past Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games
