On October 18th, the Video Games and Mythology Seminar will be held in the Faculty of Philology’s Graduation Hall at the Complutense University.

PROGRAMME

3:45 PM Inauguration: José Manuel Losada

4:00 PM – 4:25 PM Begoña Cadiñanos: To Die is the Beginning: Katabasis and Trauma in Hellblade

4:30 PM – 4:55 PM Laura Castro: Genies, Turbans, and Other «Oriental» Madness

5:00 PM – 5:25 PM Tomás Grau: «Guarded by Eight Fences»: The Japanese Founding Myths Through Video Games

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Coffee Break

6:00 PM – 6:25 PM Rebeca Campos: Are Goddesses of War Possible? Reinterpretations of Greek Mythology and the Role of Women in the God of War Saga

6:30 PM – 6:55 PM Pablo Martín: The Crooked Shaft of the Global Myth

7:00 PM – 7:25 PM Ruth García: Comfortable Mythologies: Cult of the Lamb or the Banality of Playable Good and Evil

7:30 PM Conclusion