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	Emma 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

Talks

• 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

Talks

• 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

External links

• http://nordiclarptalks.org/