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Prof Adrian Hermann (Bonn) Guest lecture on New Role-playing Games

18:00 - 19:00, Wed, 04 Mar '26 Export as iCalendar

Location: FAB 5.03

"All these rules do is mediate the conversation": Tabletop Role-Playing Games as a Medium of Play

Building on newer work in the philosophy of play and games and the philosophy of media, this talk reflects on tabletop role-playing games as a specific medium of imaginative play. While the invention of Dungeons & and Dragons in the early 1970s is an important moment, the talk also touches on the longer prehistory of adult pretend play and focuses mostly on recent developments in indie tabletop role-playing games since 2010.

Adrian is a comparative cultural studies scholar, Professor of Religion and Society at the University of Bonn, Germany, current president of the German Association for Religious Studies, and Vice Dean for Research, Digitization, and Transfer.

He directs the Bonn Lab for Analog Games and Imaginative Play that is embedded within the Forum of International Knowledge (Bonn).

All are welcome and no prior knowledge (or interest) in role-playing games is necessary.

This talk is made possible with the support of the Humanities Research Centre and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies.

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