CDN Equinox
Please mark your calendars for CDN Equinox, the centre’s biannual research day.
Panels and presentations on gaming culture and gender, diverse bodies in digital narratives, games and AI, narrative theory for AI, algorithmic folklore, and research as a creative practice. Free lunch for registered guests.
The day will be organised around themed sessions featuring short talks followed by discussion with the audience, poster sessions showcasing on-going work, and plenty of breaks for mingling and sharing ideas.
POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN! The poster sessions are intended as a collegial arena for sharing and discussing conceptual ideas, getting feedback on work-in-progress and preliminary results, and showcasing results from completed studies. We particularly encourage contributions from MA students and anyone doing research in or around CDN research focus and interests.
- Submit your abstract here (external link) by March 5
After submitting your abstract, you will receive a separate form to submit your poster, to be printed by the CDN. Deadline for poster submission: March 16.
CDN Equinox Spring 2026 Program
8:30 – Open for poster presenters to hang up posters
09:00-10:15 – Poster session, coffee/tea & mingling
10:15-10:30 – Welcome from Scott Rettberg, Director of CDN
10:30-11:15: Gaming culture and gender, Tom Legierse and Mikko Meriläinen
11:15-12:00: The wrong body: Diverse bodies in digital narratives, Hannah Ackermans, Ella Holi and Sérgio Galvão Roxo
12:00-13:00 – Lunch & more time to visit posters
13:00-13:45 – Games and AI, Haoyuan Tang and Dom Ford
13:45-14:30 – Narrative theory for AI, Hanna-Rikka Roine, Anne Sigrid Refsum and Zahra Rizvi, moderated by Jill Walker Rettberg
14:30-14:45 – Break
14:45-15:30 – the Algorithmic Folklore archive: short narratives to inspire further research, Gabriele de Seta, Marianne Gunderson, Yagmur Cisem Vik and Hanna Lauvli
15:30-16:15 – Research as a creative practice, panel discussion moderated by Jason Nelson. Panelists: tbc.
16:15-16:30 – Concluding remarks for the day, Scott Rettberg and the Head of Department (tbc)
17:00 - Reception at CDN (Langes gate 1-3). Showcasing demos.