Dr Aris Politopoulos
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Dr Aris Politopoulos
@apolitopoulos.bsky.social
Assistant professor Archaeology and Cultural Politics at Leiden University. Archaeology, play, video games, and politics.
Today in the Histories We Play course we are playing Solarpunk Futures and talk about future-past storytelling!
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We (me and @docrandom.bsky.social) are back from Spiel 2025 and added A LOT of new games to the Ludic Lab of the @lucdh.bsky.social! Video soon to follow with all the games that are now available for research (and playing!) at our lab! #archaeogaming
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Our session #archaeogaming (@archaeobasti.bsky.social, @docrandom.bsky.social, @archaeobruja.bsky.social and myself) for #CAA2025 has just started! Come find us in Room 3B of the Conference building!
May 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
December 3, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Call for papers for #CAA2025 is now open!
Join us to discuss the value of #archaeogaming and play in digital heritage and archaeology. If this sounds interesting please consider submitting an abstract!

Full session description: 2025.caaconference.org/call-for-pap...
Deadline: October 29
October 18, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Our new paper with @docrandom.bsky.social and S. Lammes "On Being Stuck in Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Promise of Freedom in Historical Games" is available at: digra.org:9998/DiGRA_2023_C...
We explore the idea of freedom and Graeber & Wengrow's
concept of being stuck in Sid Meier's Civilization!
December 4, 2023 at 4:20 PM
VERY excited to present at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Cologne tomorrow! If you happen to be there make sure to stop by and talk about all things #archaeogaming!
November 28, 2023 at 2:11 PM