Nordic Larp Talks

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Nordic Larp Talks or NLT is a series of short, entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-boggling lectures about projects and ideas from the Nordic tradition of live action roleplaying games. They've been held in close proximity of the Knutepunkt conferences since 2010.

Past Events

Nordic Larp Talks Stockholm 2010

Recorded April 17 at Café Klara, c/o Stockholms Stadsteater during A Week in Stockholm, in conjunction with Knutpunkt 2010

• http://nordiclarptalks.org/2010

Title	Speaker
Introduction to Nordic Larp	Johanna Koljonen
Transmitting a political vision through larp	Peter Munthe-Kaas
The Quest for the Perfect Manifestation of a Dream	Martin Ericsson
Portraying Love and Trying New Genders	Eliot Wieslander
Larp as Borderland Festivals	Mathias Gullbrandson
High Resolution Larping	Andie Nordgren
Critical Strategies of Larp	Markus Montola & Jaakko Stenros

Nordic Larp Talks Copenhagen 2011

Recorded February 16 at Planeten, Huset i Magstræde during A Week in Copenhagen, in conjunction with Knudepunkt 2011

• http://nordiclarptalks.org/2011

Title	Speaker
On Games: Painting Life With Rules	Johanna Koljonen
Playing With Personal Development	Bjarke Pedersen
Fabricating Madness	Peter Schønnemann Andreasen
Role-Playing as a Teaching Method	Sanne Harder
Horror and Tragedy in Nordic Role-Playing	Markus Montola
Not Another Story About Boy Meets Girl	Tor Kjetil Edland
Can Playing Games Teach Us About War?	Eirik Fatland
Documenting the Nordic Larp Scene	Interview with Jaakko Stenros

Nordic Larp Talks Helsinki 2012

Recorded April 12 at the PRKL club during A Week in Helsinki, in conjunction with Solmukohta 2012

• http://nordiclarptalks.org/2012

Title	Speaker
How to become a god	Mike Pohjola
From preforming arts to larp	Johanna MacDonald
Larpification	Claus Raasted
The interplay between player and man in the street	JP Kaljonen
Getting A Haircut And A Real Job	Interview with Mikko Rautalahti (Remedy) & Andie Nordgren (CCP Games)
[Experimental Larp Design	Jesper Bruun
Playing in Graveyards: Terror collides with larp	Lizzie Stark

Nordic Larp Talks Oslo 2013

Recorded April 17 at Litteraturshuset in Oslo during A Week in Norway, in conjunction with Knutepunkt 2013

• http://nordiclarptalks.org/2013

Title	Speaker
What does Nordic Larp mean?	Jaakko Stenros
Welcome to Larp. Let’s Play	Jana Pouchlá
Three Ways to Make Games More Inclusive	Lars Nerback
The Mixing Desk of Larp	Martin Eckhoff Andresen
No Training can Replace Experience, or Can it?	Stefan Deutsch
Bleed: How Emotions Affect Role-Playing Experiences	Sarah Lynne Bowman
How Can we Know what Actually Happened in a Larp	Annika Waern

Nordic Larp Talks Gothenburg 2014

Recorded April 2 at Visual Arena Lindholmen in Gothenburg during A Week in Gothenburg, in conjunction with Knutpunkt 2014

• http://nordiclarptalks.org/2014

Title	Speaker
The Knutpunkt 2014 Books	Eleanor Saitta
Freeform and Larp - Terminology and Strategies	Anna Westerling
Identity Crafting: Keeping the Black Dog at Bay	Nathan Hook
Bringing Larp to a Refugee Camp ... Without Really Knowing How	Martin Nielsen
Ethical Content Management and the Freedom to Create	Shoshana Kessock
Playing as Human or Robot	Carl Heath
Political Larping - Strategies to Make a Larp Accessible to Non-larpers	Siri Sandquist
Sketching Larp	Bjarke Pedersen
Halat Hisar - State of Siege	Kaisa Kangas
Does Larp Design Matter?	Eirik Fatland

Nordic Larp Talks Copenhagen 2015

Recorded February 11 at Københavns Hovedbibliotek. in Copenhagen during A Week in Denmark, in conjunction with Knudepunkt 2015

• http://nordiclarptalks.org/nordic-larp-talks-copenhagen-2015/

Title	Speaker
Larp as Adaptation	Evan Torner
Wizardry 101	Agata ‘Świstak’ Lubańska
Practical Applications of Lovecraftian Horror	Olle Nyman
Experimental Anthropology	Kaisa Kangas
Larp and...	Eleanor Saitta
Making Mandatory Larps for Non-players	Miriam Lundqvist
Framing Art with Larp	Ebba Petrén
Promoting Larp in New Places	Riad Walid Mustafa
Theory of Axes	Maria Raczynska
Communication: Remember the Larper	Massi Hannula
Girls in Armor – a Danish Feminist Movement	Ann Kristine Eriksen
The Knudepunkt 2015 Books	Claus Raasted

Nordic Larp Talks MALMÖ 2018

• https://nordiclarptalks.org/category/talks/2018-malmo/

Title	Speaker
The Good, the Bad & the Internalized: Searching for Self Liberation in Conscience	Jonaya Kemper
5 things about larping on a sailing ship	Stefan Deutsch
On location: playing with expectations	Laura Wood, Mo Holkar
Larping in the Political Heart of Europe	Maria Pettersson
Routes of inheritance	Will Osmond
Emergence in larp	Evan Torner
Under 25: We’re Here to Take Your Place	Agata Świstak
Same Role, Different Life	Karijn van der Heij
The Wayfinder experience	Ben Books Schwartz
White Knighting and Why It’s Problematic But Not Necessarily In the Sense You Might Think	Aina Skjønsfjell
Emotional Safety, Sorority and #metoo: One Year in Larp Women Unite France	Muriel Algayres
Designing Sigridsdotter: A Guide Through a Matriarchy	Eva Wei
Female Narratives and Why We Should Play Them	Siri Sandqvist
1942: Representing History	Tor Kjetil Edland

Nordic Larp Talks ODENSE 2019

• https://nordiclarptalks.org/nordic-larp-talks-odense-2019/

Title	Speaker
Not good enough: On larp and systematic anxiety	Muriel Algayres
Designing larp for multicultural participants	Qla Zetterberg
Ars Rego: A technique for physical magic and control	Maria Bergman Hamming, Jeppe Bergman Hamming
Intergenerational Storytelling	Sagalinn Tangen
Designing for the Somatic imagination	Susan Ploetz
Lost in Love – from DJ to GM	Simon Brind
Fleshing the Skeleton – How to empower players to make characters their own, without the risk of ‘breaking the larp’	Mo Holkar
Two tools to structure a larp	Kaisa Kangas
Costumes for real bodies	Anne Serup Grove
The Piss Room	Juhana Pettersson

External links

• http://nordiclarptalks.org/