
International conference: “Leisure electronics and the emergence of video games”
2 and 3 May 2024
On-site: in room Amphimax 414 on UNIL Campus, Lausanne, Switzerland
On-line: on Zoom and discord (links to come)
Co-organized by the GameLab UNIL-EPFL and the research project Confoederatio Ludens, with the support of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lausanne
Conference program
DAY 1 – 2 May 2024
08:30 Welcoming and registration – in front of the conference room
09:00 Opening speech – Pierre-Yves Hurel & Sophie Bémelmans
09:30 OPENING KEYNOTE:
Alex Wade (Birmingham City University) – Genealogies of videogame production, consumption and distribution in the English Midlands (Online) – Moderator: Yannick Rochat
10:30 Coffee Break – in front of the conference room
10:45 PANEL 1: Local contexts – Moderator: Guillaume Guenat
- A. Gabrielyan (Université de Lausanne) and T. Vaillancourt (University of Konstanz / Paris Nanterre) – The intermedial and cultural genealogy of Nu, Pogodi! in the USSR, or why a clone is not just a clone (On-site)
- R. Seiwald (University of Birmingham) – Happy Birthday, Tetris! Tracing the Game’s History within a Genealogy of Ludic Practices (On-site)
- M. Conrad (University St. Gallen) – United by Code: The Cultural Impact of BASIC as a Glocalized Coding Language for Gaming Communities in East and West Germany during the 1980s (On-site)

Victor Rodríguez Infiesta est Profesor Titular (Maître de Conférences) en Histoire contemporaine à l’Université d’Oviedo (Espagne). Ses recherches concernent principalement l’histoire de la presse, l’opinion publique, la propagande et la distribution de journaux. Ancien directeur du Master « Historia y Análisis Sociocultural », Secrétaire de l’association PILAR (Presse, Imprimés, Lecture dans l’Aire Romane), ses travaux les plus récents portent sur la bande dessinée franco-belge et la lecture.
Dictionnaire de la presse française pendant la Révolution 1789-1799, La presse départementale
Nicolas Bouvier,
Johnny Walker,