Looking for scholars in game studies and or medievalisms to submit papers to our panel at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, May 8 - May 11, 2025. See CfP below. Submissions can be made at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=5919

Rædy Player One: Participation, Subjectivity, and the First-Person in Medievalist Games

Organizer: Antonia DiNardo

Delivery Mode: In-Person

Principal Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Critical Game Studies Initiative, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This panel is focused on the form and function of the first-person perspective in medievalist games, broadly construed, and the potentials and pitfalls of games as sites of imaginative participation in the medieval. We invite submissions from any field or methodological framework, as long as they are concerned, in some way, with games which situate the player, either linguistically or visually, as a first-person participant in the action of the game.

Submission Link: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=5919