Events

A research talk with Eric Zimmerman and Katriina Heljakka about the intersections of games and acts of play.

Upper secondary level students come to explore Tampere University and our bachelor programmes. We welcome visitors to Oasis - get to know what Oasis is and what to do there.

Mediatutkimuksen gradufestari. Juhlistamme kevään graduseminaarien tuotoksia.

[The event is in Finnish, but some presentations will be held in English. We will inform about this later.]

Tarjolla tietoiskuja tuoreista journalistiikan graduista! Maisteriopiskelijat kertovat havaintoja ja tuloksia gradujensa pohjalta suomeksi ja englanniksi. Tervetuloa henkilökunta ja muutkin opiskelijat mukaan kuuntelemaan ja keskustelemaan! Mukaan voi tulla koko vain osaksikin aikaa. Klo 12–13 pidetään lounastauko. Seminaarien vetäjät Laura Ahva ja Heikki Heikkilä haastattelevat ja lopuksi kippistetään.  

Aika ja Paikka: Oasis (Pinni B, 2 krs), keskiviikkona 6.5.2026, klo 10–15.

Soft Power in Esports: Attraction, Legitimacy, and Geopolitical Strategy
by Egil Trasti Rogstad

This talk explores how esports have become more than entertainment and competition. Drawing on two recent studies, I examine how esports can function as a form of soft power and how they are increasingly linked to diplomacy, legitimacy, and geopolitical strategy. I also discuss the rise of esportswashing through the case of Saudi Arabia’s growing involvement in global esports and how this has been framed in Norwegian media. Together, the studies show how influence in esports is produced, contested, and normalized in digital culture.

Egil Trasti Rogstad is an associate professor in journalism at Nord University, Norway. His research focuses on esports, media, and power, with particular attention to legitimacy, governance, and representation. He has recently worked on questions related to soft power, geopolitics, sports washing, and gendered power relations. His work examines how esports are shaped not only by entertainment and competition, but also by broader political, cultural, and institutional forces.

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Finley's Video Game Music Quiz!
Thu 7.5.2026 17:00-19:00
Come test your video game music knowledge with an exciting, challenging, fast-paced quiz!

The event is open for everyone and free of charge. Welcome!

A research talk on Games and Time with Juan F. Belmonte-Ávila and other researchers.

Welcome to listen what kind of master's theses our students in Game Studies have been working with this year. Lunch break around 12-13.

The event is free of charge and open for everyone.

(more info coming soon)

Fault Lines of Science through Scientometric Approaches to Understand Knowledge Inequalities and Disciplinary Changes

How is scientific knowledge organised, who benefits from its current structure, and can we predict how it might change? The talk offers a journey through several connected ties of research in scientometrics and science of science (as well as science sociology), united by a socio-cultural concern with structural inequalities in global knowledge production. The research presented draws on large-scale bibliometric data and network-analytic methods, with the key objective to understand whether the dramatic expansion of international collaboration has translated into a more equitable distribution of intellectual recognition or whether “working together” and “being heard” remain fundamentally different things.
 
Gergely Ferenc Lendvai is a researcher in scientometrics, network science, and science of science at Ludovika University of Public Service in Budapest, where he also serves as Chief Reference Officer at the Science Strategy Office. He holds a JD from ELTE Budapest and an M1 in French and International Law from Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), and has completed his PhD in scientometrics, science policy, and network science (SSN) in 2026 at the Ludovika University of Public Service. His work focuses on the diffusion of scientific ideas, knowledge hierarchies, and structural inequalities in global and local Academia, with publications in outlets including Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, and Journal of Information Science. He is particularly interested in science policy and science regulation with special attention to research funding. He has held research fellowships at the University of Richmond, CAIS Bochum, the University of Milan, and the Digital Authoritarianism Research Lab, and has presented at conferences across Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

The event is open for everyone and free of charge. Welcome!