Program

10:00-10:30 Welcome online (connection time and opening remarks)

10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Localisation and Localisation Studies

Chair: Léa Montmayeur

• Noëllie Linossier and Sarah Theroine (M2 T2M 2019-20), Building up a multilingual videogame dictionary

• María Isabel Rivas Ginel (Université de Bourgogne - Universidad de Valladolid), Ergonomics of CAT tool usage for game localisation: a survey for game testers and localisers

• Round table on game localisation with:

  • Aurélie Perrin (Orelitranslation.com)

  • Aymeric Lamboley (Da Viking Code)

  • Bernard Cagnet (Ubisoft)

  • Lucie Bernard (Université de Bourgogne, moderator)

12:00-13:30: LUNCH BREAK

13:30-15:00 Panel 2: Language and Culture in Game Studies

Chair: Sarah Theroine

• Pascal Wagner (Goethe Institut, Munich), Naming and localising spell names in JRPGs

• Michaël Rizzo (Aix-Marseille Université), Imaginary toponyms: the ambitions of Final Fantasy XIV

• Guillaume Page (Univeristé de Bretagne Occidentale), Post-human imagery in the transmedia franchise Deus Ex: A study of image and text

15:15-16:30 Panel 3: Gaming and Intercultural Studies

Chair: Will Noonan

• Elena Shikakhovchuk (Independent researcher), Play and change the world: Games about refugees

• Florent Maurin (The Pixel Hunt), on Bury me, my love

• Combined discussion time

16:30 Closing remarks

Please see the LocJam tab for information about the game localisation contest and Masterclass beginning on Saturday 7/11