Workshops and training courses
Workshops and training courses
7-11 September 2026 | Roundtable: A Roundtable on Integrating Holocaust Game-Making into the Classroom with Clarissa J. Ceglio, Sandra Camarda, Anne Parsons and Ken ThompsonThe Public History of Difficult Pasts, 8th International Conference on Public History, Lisbon, Portugal |
08 May 2026 | Lecture: Remembrance Games in the History ClassroomHistoday 2026 - No Time to Forget, Berlin, organised by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) |
27 April 2026 | Lecture: Teaching History with Games in Germany: The Oldenburg GamelabFestival of History and Heritage in Gaming at the Neutral Lab in the Bristol Digital Futures Institute organised by the Bristol Digital Game Lab, UK |
10-11 April 2026 | Workshops: Civic education and remembering with gamesCrossMediaCamp 2026 in Wolfenbüttel organised by the Lower Saxony State Institute for School Quality Development (NLQ) and the Federal Academy for Cultural Education Wolfenbüttel. |
14 March 2026 | Histocamp 2026 as co-organiserBarcamp at the Friederich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn |
12-14 November 2025 | Roundtable: Games on marine research and maritime history. Potentials of playful mediation using the example of escape games, mobile phone games and board gamesSPIEL | MUSEUM symposium at the Wallraff-Richartz-Museum Cologne and Cologne Game Lab TH Köln together with colleagues from the German Maritime Museum (DSM) Bremerhaven |
09 October 2025 | Conference: Introduction to ludologyOrganised by oldengame - Kollektiv zu Game Studies at the University of Oldenburg, hosted by Karina Moritzen Barbosa and 3GO |
01 September 2025 | Lecture: The future of memory. Using games to come to terms with National Socialism in the classroom (LAB7)Molol - Mobile.school conference, HCC Hannover |
07 - 10 July 2025 | Lecture: Teaching the 16th Century with GamesInternational Medieval Congress 2025, Leeds, UK |
26 - 27 June 2025
| Lecture: Revolutions in digital games: The French Revolution and the Meiji RestorationA global historical perspective on classic history teaching topics, conference at the University of Duisburg-Essen with Jan Siefert |
24 June 2025 | Roundtable and game "Remember. The Children of Bullenhuser Damm"Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo, University Sussex, Digital Humanities Lab, UK |
17 June 2025 | Workshop: Games & HistoryUniversity of Oldenburg, Conference for Student Research |
3 - 6 June 2025 | Lecture: The Middle Ages in Modern Games: Globalities and RegionalitiesUniversity of Winchester, Asynchronous Conference, UK |
17 March 2025 | Advanced training: Games in the classroom. Game-Based LearningTraining series organised by the Protestant School Foundation in Central Germany |
15 February 2025 | Lecture: Jewish everyday life in the game PentimentForum Jewish History and Culture in the Early Modern Period, Hohenheim of the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart |
12 December 2024 | Keynote: Teaching History with GamesThe Historical Society in Uppsala, Sweden |
2 - 3 December 2024 | School project day "Histotainment - learning history through play?"Point Alpha Memorial, Geisa Castle, Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the Past, Thuringia |
November 2024 | Launch of the game "Remember - The Children of Bullenhuser Damm"Bullenhuser Damm memorial site, Hamburg |
15 November 2024 | Further training: Serious games in history lessons |
07 November 2024 | Workshop: Saxon history in a board game |
02 November 2024 | Roundtable: "Your city grows and prospers!" - City and country in the historical computer game |
12-14 September 2024
| Conference "Die Frühe Neuzeit in Spielen / The Early Modern Period in GamesJointly organised by Dr Lucas Haasis and Tobias Winnerling |
09 July 2024 | Keynote: History in gamesUniversity of Düsseldorf, Forum Modern Times Public History |
13 June 2024 | Roundtable: The fate of the children from Bullenhuser DammJüdischer Salon am Grindel e.V. in co-operation with the Foundation Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte and the Freiraum im MK&G |
27 May 2024 | Play and roundtable: Assassination 1942 & The Darkest FilesHalle (Saale), Red Ox Memorial with the Digital Games Culture Foundation, Mona Brandt from Paintbucket and Lara Keilbart |
09 April 2024 | Lecture: Games & HistoryCharles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
15 February 2024
| Advanced training: Playing history. Introduction to the practical use of digital games in history lessonsFriedrich Verlag Academy, online training course |
Oct. 2023 - Jan. 2024 | Online series of lectures: "Games in historical research and education" (together with the TU Dresden) |
March - Dec. 2023 | Interview series "SpielSchnackSchnuck"More about the interview series here, as a poster download and on YouTube |
13 November 2023 | Lecture in the seminar "History mediation in serious games"Humboldt University Berlin |
06 October 2023 | Roundtable Game Studies and its SubfieldsKick-off event of oldengame, Games Collective Oldenburg (founding member) |
05 October 2023 | Gen Alpha - just shooting? Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty WW2 under the microscopeAcademy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management Dillingen a.d. Donau |
25 September 2023 | Roundtable "Remembering. The children from Bullenhuser Damm"Opportunities and limits of historical appropriation through serious games. |
24 May 2023 | The Discovery Tours in practical use in history lessonsLEARNTEC - Europe's #1 in digital learning. International trade fair and congress, Focus Stage, Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre |
08 May 2023
| Interview and Q&A with Josh Sawyer, Game Director of the game Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment)Twitch stream of the AK Geschichtswissenschaft und Digitale Spiele, together with Dr Alan van Beek |
Oct 2022 - January 2023 | Public online session "Games & History | History" |
19 November 2022
| Immersive learning. Possible uses of discovery tours in history lessonsDigital Education Day (DED) 2022, Cologne |
14 October 2022
| Games in specialised lessons - History: The First and Second World Wars on the tabletAcademy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management Dillingen a.d.DonauFIBS: Further training in Bavarian schools |
26 September 2022
| Let's Play History. Workshoptogether with Katharina Sambeth, KMS-Bildung/Digitive mobile.schule TAGUNG #molol im HCC Hannover |
25 August 2022 | Playing history. Practical use of digital games in history lessonsGamescom, Gamescom Congress, Cologne |
30 June 2022
| Historical pixels, interactive cardboard: history in analogue and digital gamesRoundtable at the Games&Festival 2022 organised by the House of Games - Museums of the City of Nuremberg and the Parabol Media Centre |
02 June 2022
| The Discovery Tour in history lessonsLEARNTEC - Europe's #1 in digital learning. International trade fair and congress, Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre |
06 April 2022
| Serious games in history lessons: The First and Second World Wars on the tabletAcademy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management Dillingen a.d.Donau |
31 January 2022 | Digital games in history lessons: a practical introductionIDA-EHRE school development day in Bad Oldesloe |
15 December 2021
| The potential of digital games in (history) lessonsAcademy for Teacher Training and Personnel Management Dillingen a.d.Donau |
26 August 2021
| Ubisoft Discovery Tour. Potential for history lessonsGamescom, Gamescom Congress, Cologne |
19 - 20 August 2021
| Historical video games. Opportunities and limitations for use in schoolsUniversity of Oldenburg |
