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Victoria Mummelthei

story-telling researcher & essayist


Main focus: games, environments, higher ed

Websites/Blogs/Social Media Accounts: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/semiarab/arabistik/team/Wissenschaftliche-Mitarbeiterinnen-und-Mitarbeiter/Mummelthei/index.html

Languages: German, English

City: Berlin

State: Berlin

Country: Germany

Topics: photography, games, higher education, writing, culture studies, environmental humanities

Services: Talk, Moderation, Workshop management, Coaching, Interview

  Willing to travel for an event.

  Willing to talk for nonprofit.

Personal note:

Topics I enjoy discussing with others or for which I like to design and conduct workshops:
- Games culture
- How do stories migrate between media?
- Environmental narratives in digital games
- Virtual photography as a cultural practice and research method
- (reader-centered) Academic writing
- Futures of science and higher ed
- Digitalisation & AI in higher ed
- Anarchism/syndicalism in science and higher ed

Bio:

Since 2023 Research on digital games, in particular how we tell stories with and within digital worlds and beyond, and how stories relate to the environment
Since 2022 Scientific coordination of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East (ISME) @ Freie Universität Berlin
2021 Dr.phil. Arabic Studies (Topic: The Sea and the Beloved – A corpus-linguistic study of frequencies, keywords, and topics in the poetry of the Syrian writer Nizar Qabbani (1923–1998))

Examples of previous talks / appearances:

Was ist eigentlich eine Con?

Magiccon Sep 26–28 2025, Maritim Hotel, Bonn

This talk is in: German
Anarchistische Wissen(schaft)spraxis: Eine Post-reputationale Perspektive

Tagung, Reputation ohne Paywall? Wissenschaftliches Publizieren im digitalen Wandel, 08.-09.10.2024, Darmstadt

This talk is in: German
Dwarven Stone-Singing as Affective Geology in The Rings of Power

Contribution for the Tolkien Society Seminar 2025: Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments. October 2025 online.

This talk is in: English
Emergente Historiografie vs. Game Studies: Wer schreibt die Geschichte der Spiele?

Spielgeschichte(n) – Games und Game Studies in medienkulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive, 11.–13. April 2024, Universität Innsbruck

This talk is in: German
Ländlichkeit (re)inszeniert - Fotorealismus und virtuelle Fotografie von Far Cry 5s Hope County, Montana

Tagung COUNTRYSIDE(S) – Fotografische Konstruktionen des Ländlichen, Kommission Fotografie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (Christiane Cantauw, Ulrich Hägele), LWL-Kommission Alltagskulturforschung für Westfalen, LWL-Medienzentrum für Westfalen (Markus Köster), 26.09.2024 - 27.09.2024, Münster

This talk is in: German
Playing Through Water: Solastalgia and Environmental Imagination in Post-Flood Digital Worlds

International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies 18-19 October 2025 – London/Online organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

This talk is in: English
Getting Wet: Rethinking Horror through Oceanic Thinking

Horror Studies Now: A Two-Day Conference (29-30 May 2025, Northumbria University, UK)

This talk is in: English
Pre-Post-Myth: How Cyberpunk Games Were Never Post-Human At All

Mythological Game Studies Conference, online, 22–23 Mai, 2025

This talk is in: English
Ephemerality and Experience: Questioning the Imperative of Archiving and Canonizing Video Games

Virtual Workshop | Games Canon & Games History, February 13, 2024, organized by Dîlan Canan Çakir, Anna Kinder, and Andreas Rauscher

This talk is in: English
House Rules: Domestic Horror and the Collapse of Patriarchal Control in Layers of Fear

Victorian American Myths in Video Games 2025 : International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games, 9–11 April, 2025, Lissabon, Portugal

This talk is in: English
The Apocalypse Within: Portraying Psychological Resilience and Anti-Fragility Through Games Like Hellblade

Future and Reality of Gaming (FROG) Conference, Vienna, October 11–13, 2024

This talk is in: English
What Is Lost When Ghosts Are Found? The Problem of Certainty in Digital Game Adaptations

Ghosts in Britain and Ireland, c.1500-1950 conference, June 26th – 27th 2025, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

This talk is in: English
Jenseits des Endes: Die Stille als Erzählerin der Postapokalypse in „The Long Dark“

Game Over? – Dystopia x Utopia x Video Games Interdisziplinäre Tagung an der Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, November 2024

This talk is in: German
Beyond the Human: Exploring Non-Spatial Becomings in Warhammer 40k

Warhammer Conference, Heidelberg, September 2024

This talk is in: English