Larp Politics – Systems, Theory, and Gender in Action – Knutepunkt 2016

Introduction

The Game

• “These but the trappings and the suits of woe”
• Larp-poem 1905
• A Trilogy of Power and Oppression
• Larping to Resist
• Saving the Baltic Sea with Larp

Systems & Change

• Refugees Are Welcome
• Playing Stress, Guilt and Identity – This Ain’t Politics, This Is Syria
• Educational Larps for Political Studies
• Infrastructural Games and Societal Play
• Larp as a Tool

Theory: Politics & Larp

• Rehearsing Difference
• Where Can Political Larp Go?
• Larp as a Form of Political Action
• Political Larps, or Larps About Politics?
• Playing at Work

Gender

• Not a Real Man? My Body Is Political
• Expression of Feminism in Larp
• Gender and Historical Larps
• Play the Gay Away