The program for the conference “multi.player – An international conference on the social aspects of digital gaming” (July 21st-23rd, Stuttgart, Germany) is now online and can be found here:
https://sofoga.uni-hohenheim.de/conprog.html
Among the keynote speakers of the conference are Richard Bartle (creator of the first multi-user dungeon MUD), Mark Griffiths (Nottingham Trent University), Torill Mortensen (IT University of Copenhagen) and Yvonne de Kort (Eindhoven University of Technology). The conference also features an “industry meets academia” panel with representatives of Electronic Arts, Gameforge and other companies.