Yesterday we informed you about the deadline extension for the Philosophy of Computer Games Conference 2017 (September the 4th, 11.59 PM GTM). This time, to further motivate you while you are working on your abstracts, we are happy to announce of the second of our keynote speakers – Sybille Lammes!

Sybille Lammes is professor New Media and Digital Culture at Leiden University.She has been a visiting Senior Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, and has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, as well as the media-studies departments of Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. Her background is in media-studies and game-studies, which she has always approached from an interdisciplinary angle, including cultural studies, science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and critical geography. She is co-editor of /Playful Identities /(2015), /Mapping Time /(2017 fc.) /The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods/ (2018 fc.). and /The Playful Citizen/ (2017 fc.). She is an ERC laureate and has been the PI of numerous research projects. She is a member of the Playful Mapping Collective.