(Central European Time)

9.00 – 10.00 Opens registration

10.00 – 10.15 Welcome Speech by Arkadiusz Janicki, Dean of the Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk and Yaraslau Kot (on site)

10.15 – 10.45 Games of War – lessons learned for comprehensive European preparedness by Jari-Pekka Kaleva, European Games Developer Federation CEO (online)

10.45 – 11.30 Games, Wars and Wisdom by Oleksii Sytianov (on site)

11.30 – 12.00 coffee break


12.00 – 12.20 Bucha 2022 – Post Mortem by Anastasia Kot (online)

12.20 – 12.40 Malign foreign interference and information influence on video game platforms by Elsa Isaksson (online)

12.40 – 13.00 Preserving Video Games as Testimonies of the War in Ukraine by Michał Palmąka (on site)

13.00 – 13.15 Worlds for personalized inclusive post-war adaptation by Oleksiy Yevsyeyev and Oleksandr Pushkar (online)

13.15 – 13.30 Games of War: voices silented by Yaraslau Kot (on site)

13.30 – 14.30 lunch break


14.30 – 14.50 The Features of the use of religious symbols in Ukrainian games of war by Aliaksandr Razhkou (online)

14.50 – 15.10 When War Is Children’s Play: Some Hard Questions with No Easy Answers by Michał Mochocki (on site)

15.10 – 15.30 Commercial video games as a means of emotional support and psychological assistance of Ukrainian children and youth during the Russian war by Oleksii Sukhorukov (online)

15.30 – 16.30 The story behind the Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator soundtrack by Lana Kruchek (on site)

16.30 – 17.00 coffee break


17.00 – 17.20 The influence of the Warhammer 40,000 universe and Russian imperialism by Oleksandr Ruzevych (on site)

17.20 – 18.20 Geogrify by Kate Edwards (online)

18.20 – 18.30 Closing Ceremony