Conference
The Interactive Pasts Conference 4
- Date
- Wednesday 8 October 2025 - Friday 10 October 2025
- Location
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Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2
2333 CC Leiden
The Interactive Pasts Conference (TIPC) is an event where we get together to celebrate our joint love for video games and the past and share our playful, creative, smart, cool, beautiful ideas with each other.
The theme of this fourth in-person edition of TIPC is ‘The Fellowship of Past and Play’. It is inspired by the diverse, interdisciplinary, and multi-vocal perspective that has allowed this field to grow and thrive. At the same time, as this year marks 10 years of VALUE, we are also looking to celebrate the friends we have made along this epic journey of past-play discovery. As such TIPC4 will focus on openness, collaborations, inclusive scholarship, links between researchers and game developers, and all the things that bring us together!
You can expect to learn about the development of video and board games set in the past, representing cultural heritages in games, counterplay and alternative pasts, experiments with game-making, matching the past through art or mechanics, and many more awesome topics.
Programme
TIPC4 will take place over three days, on 8-10 October 2025 in Leiden, the Netherlands. The first day, Wednesday 8 October, will consist of an afternoon of workshops. Conference participants will be able to sign up for one of four workshops when they register, all of which will take place at Leiden University venues within central Leiden. The other days, Thursday 9 and Friday 10 May, are for paper presentations and panels which will take place in the main hall of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. TIPC4 will again include a Game Exhibit in which you can try out historical and other past-related video games on site!
Visit the full programme on the TIPC website.