Schedule for the Role-Playing and Simulation in Education Conference 2018

Which will take place at Northeastern University directly before the Living Games Conference.
When: Thursday, May 17, 2018, 9am – 4pm
Where: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Price: Free for Living Games attendees, price TBD for non-Living Games attendees
Note that registration is capped at 50 people

9:00-9:45am: Introduction

• Celia Pearce, Northeastern University
• Sarah Lynne Bowman, Austin Community College
• Evan Torner, University of Cincinnati

Keynotes

• Elizabeth Fein, Duquesne University
• Kellian Adams Pletcher, Northeastern University

10:00-11:15am: Theories and Principles (Sam Anderson)

• Maury Brown, “Edu-Larps, Experiential Learning, and Affective Domain Outcomes”
• Samara Hayley Steele, “Understanding Larp Literacy: Noise Filtering, Direct Diegesis, Extradiegetic Statement Exchange, and Intradiegetic Objects”
• Katherine Castiello Jones, “Encouraging Perception through Playfulness and ‘World’-Travelling: Feminism, Larp, and Learning”
• Andrew Harris, “What Makes a Game an Effective Tool for Developing Social Skills?”

Techniques and Innovations (Will Osmond)

• Rian Oliveira Rezende, “Wonder Cards Storytelling: Imagination, Storytelling, and Role-playing in the Creation of Objects, Spaces, and Experiences”
• Amanda Siepiola, “Who Would Win? Edu-Larp vs. Dorothy Heathcote’s Mantle of the Expert”
• Susan Weiner, “Case Studies as Tabletop RPGs”
• Lux Faros, “Immersive Narratives, Personas, and Multi-intelligence Scaffolding”

12:45-2:00pm : Adult Education (Jason Morningstar)

• Celia Peace and Lizzie Stark, “Teaching Video Game Design (and Feminism!) Through Larping”
• Clio Yun-su Davis, “War in the Magic Circle”
• Magdalene Loh, “Edu-Larping for Career Design”

Youth Outreach (Rebecca Slitt)

• Mikael Hellström and Ken Keziej, “Year Zero Economics: Using edu-larps to exploring economic systems in the Ninth Grade”
• Anna V. Konovalenko, “The Noon Project: Methodological Aspects of Socialization”
• Andrew Lacanienta, “Creating a New World at Summer Camp”
• Krysten Callina, “The Educational Micro-LARP: Redefining Live Action Role-play for Social, Academic and Therapeutic Applications”

2:15-3:45pm : Public Speaking Workshop (Kate Hill)
Edu-Larp Construction Workshop (David Simkins)

3:45-4:00pm : Closing Ceremonies: Celia Pearce, Sarah Lynne Bowman, and Evan Torner