{"id":8517,"date":"2021-07-16T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.b-ok.de\/?p=8517"},"modified":"2021-07-16T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T02:30:37","slug":"ropecon-2021-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-ok.de\/de\/japanese-studies\/ropecon-2021-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Ropecon 2021: Academic Keynote \u00fcber Rollenspiele Japans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keynote zu nicht-digitalen Rollenspielen in und aus Japan auf dem Ropecon 2021 Academic Seminar<\/a>, Helsinki, 30. Juli 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Non-Digital Role-Playing of Japan: Approaching RPGs as a Practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Date & Time<\/em>: July 30 (Fri), 9:45-10:45 (EEST)
Location<\/em>: Zoom (cf. conference website<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With cosplay, the masquerading as fictional characters, being closely linked to Japanese popular culture it came as a surprise in 2010 that live-action role-play was not practiced in Japan when I set out to study non-digital forms of role-playing. This situation has changed dramatically in the past decade, with dozens of new larp clubs organizing events throughout the country (until corona brought a halt to this development). Role-playing games in and from Japan offer complex insights into intermedia citations and cross-media productions as well as adaptation and appropriation.
This presentation will engage the fluidity and multiplicity of these games with a focus on Japan but seeks to avoid an emphasis of unique \u201cJapanese\u201d characteristics because what it means to take on a character in a role-playing game always amounts to a particular, contingent realisation of these practices. Still, the Japanese RPG industry extended these practices in particular ways not explored elsewhere. Thus, the aim of this talk is to trace the transcultural entanglements of RPG practices with a focus on Japan but in a global context, including recent \u201cbooms,\u201d such as of Call of Cthulhu<\/em> or larp. Understanding role-playing games as a network of partially connected practices instead of as a \u201cculture\u201d or \u201ccommunity\u201d made this tracing possible and will be discussed as the theoretical perspective of the study underlying this talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Ropecon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Since 1994, Ropecon<\/a> is the largest non-commercial role-playing convention in Europe organised entirely by volunteers. The three day convention offers a variety of programme suitable for attendees of all ages ranging from tabletop and live-action role-playing games to card games, board games and miniature wargames. In addition to tournaments and other game programme Ropecon also features presentations, panel discussions and workshops on a wide variety of topics related to role-playing games. Two major awards, The Golden Dragon and The Deed of the Year, are presented annually at Ropecon for achievements and contributions to the role-playing game culture in Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic Seminar Schedule (July 30, 2021)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

All times are Eastern European Summer Time (EEST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:30\u201309:45: Opening words<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:45\u201310:45: Keynote: Bj\u00f6rn-Ole Kamm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:45\u201311:00: Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00\u201313:00: Session 1<\/strong>
\u2013 Harrer & Laiti: Outside the racist nostalgia box: rethinking Afrikan T\u00e4hti\u2019s cultural depictions
\u2013 Tacq & Barbier: Community resources and authorship: how women authorship can give us an insight on resources mobilization in board games world
\u2013 Delgado: Designing Original Position \u2013 An investigation into the design process of justice-oriented civic board games
\u2013 Prax: Why do we even need Games Workshop? The case of Warhammer 40k on Tabletop Simulator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:00\u201314:00: Break<\/strong>

14:00\u201315:30: Session 2<\/strong>
\u2013 Kaufman: Blades in the Dark as an affective system: an exploration of alternative play and alternative selves
\u2013 Apperley: From \u2018the fiend factory\u2019 to Fiend Folio: world building and monster design in AD&D
\u2013 Torner: From listservs to itch.io \u2013 indie tabletop role-playing games as post-digital space

15:30\u201315:45: Closing words<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literature<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2020. Role-Playing Games of Japan: Transcultural Dynamics and Orderings<\/em>. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
2019. Adapting Live-Action Role-Play in Japan\u2014How German \u2018Roots\u2019 Do Not Destine Japanese \u2018Routes.\u2019 Replaying Japan<\/em>, no. 1: 64\u201378.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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