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        Date: 2024-09-12 15:23:03+00:00
        From: Franz FISCHER <franz.fischer@unive.it>
        Subject: Dungeon. Iconography of an Archetype From the Antiquity to the Digital Age

Dear digital humanists,

The Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities is happy to share the
definite programme of the international conference
"Dungeon. Iconography of an Archetype From the Antiquity to the Digital Age"
to be held September 24-25, 2024, ONLINE and partly in presence at Ca'
Foscari University of Venice, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Sala
Geymonat/VeDPH Lab,  Dorsoduro 3484/d.

Here is the full programme: Dungeon PDF download
<https://apps.unive.it/server/eventi/90970/A3_Berti_24.25.09.24_programma%20(2).pdf>

Further information below and at the following link:
https://www.unive.it/data/33113/2/90970


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The dungeon, growing out of gaming and popular culture, has become in
recent decades an ideal framework for examining the relationship between
imagined space and worldbuilding. From experimental maps to the digital
sphere, the dungeon has deeply influenced not only tabletop and
role-playing games but also traditional artistic practices, evolving into a
metaphor for participatory installations and exhibition spaces. The
international conference “Dungeon: The Iconography of an Archetype from
Antiquity to the Digital Age” seeks to offer a fresh multidisciplinary
perspective on the subterranean and labyrinthine space as an iconographic
topos, tracing its development from ancient times to the intricate
multilayered architectures of contemporary digital culture.

The conference is organized by VeDPH – Venice Centre for Digital and Public
Humanities. Department of Humanities Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. In
collaboration with the Department of History, Philosophical and Art History
Studies, Tor Vergata University of Rome; 3ARC – Ancient Art Architecture;
Università eCampus; Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic
Studies, University of Bergen.

The keynote speakers will be Carmelo Occhipinti (Full Professor of
Museology and Artistic Critics of Restoration at Tor Vergata University of
Rome), Mark Algee-Hewitt (Associate Professor of 19th Century English
Literature and Digital Humanities at Stanford University), and Espen
Aarseth (Chair Professor of Game Studies and Dean of the School of Creative
Media at City University of Hong Kong). They will be joined by scholars
from Italian and international institutions who will offer reflections on
the theme of the "dungeon" as a symbolic space, drawing from the fields of
art history, literature, media studies, archaeology, and architecture.

Organized by Paolo Berti, Claudio Castelletti, and Stefania De Vincentis.

The conference is held in Italian and English.

You can attend the conference remotely by using the following:
https://unive.zoom.us/j/82109102083?pwd=YbUqMOVE6p6OY3t6bRXxdaqzVA6jJu.1

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Franz Fischer
Direttore, Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH)
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Università Ca' Foscari
Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà
Dorsoduro 3484/D - 30123 Venezia

Tel.: +39 041 234 6266 (ufficio), +39 041 234 9863 (segreteria del centro)
https://www.unive.it/vedph
https://www.i-d-e.de/
https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/


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