Dear colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to attend our forthcoming symposium, "Computer Gaming Across Cultures: Perspectives from Three Continents", to be held in JP Seminar Room (former TV Studio), on Wednesday, 8th May. The event is funded by the British Council, under its UKIERI (UK-US-India Education and Research Initiative) scheme, and will feature presentations by speakers from West Virginia University, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, and Bangor University. The keynote lecture will be given by Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart, one of the UK's leading scholars in Games Studies.
A full schedule and list of speakers and titles are attached to this email.
Attendance is free. Everybody welcome.
Best wishes,
Astrid
Schedule:
0900 Astrid Ensslin and Sandy Baldwin: Symposium welcome and introduction
0925 Dibs Roy, WVU: "My Project is Sexy and You Better Know It": The Politics of Video Game Research in Ivy League Institutions
0940 Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, WVU: The Game Changing WoW Effect: The Evolution of World of Warcraft's Academic Research
0955 (Sandy Baldwin): Q&A, discussion
1015 tea, coffee, and biscuits; Head of School's Welcome
1045 Kayla McKinney, WVU: Frontier Conflicts: Boundless Exploration and Gender Limits in World of Warcraft
1100 Ben Bishop, WVU: Guilds/Corporations in World of Warcraft: The Guild Is Expanding to Meet The Needs of the Expanding Guild
1115 (Sandy Baldwin): Q&A, discussion
1130 Esther MacCallum-Stewart: Keynote lecture: "#1reasonwhy: Gaming Communities, Diversity and Change"
1230 Lunch
1330 Saugata Bhaduri, JNU: Title t.b.c.
1345 Debaditya Bhattacharya, JNU: Playing by the Noose: Understanding Popular Response to Terror through Video Games
1400 Samayeta Biswas, JNU: Computer Gaming in India, a Social Overview of the Politics of Technological and Gender Divides: A Subaltern Speaks
1415 Siddhartha Chakrabarti, JNU: From the Ludic to the Ldicrous: The Continuing Power Structures of an Unreasonable Colonialism in Computer Gaming and Beyond Today
1430 (Saugata Bhaduri): Q&A, discussion
1500 tea, coffee, and biscuits
1530 Astrid Ensslin, BU: Educational (MMO) Games Research: European Perspectives
1545 Isamar Carrillo Masso, BU: Map & Track: Using Applied Mathematics to Track the Development of the Use of MMORPGs as Educational Tools
1600 Xavier Laurent, BU: Virtual Worlds and Cognitive Science: Implications for Learning
1615 Lyle Skains, BU : Reading, Writing, Arithmetic...and Programming? Game-coding as Educational Platform
1630 (Astrid Ensslin) : Q&A
1645 (Sandy Baldwin): End discussion: the way forward
1700 Close
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Yr Athro / Professor Astrid Ensslin
Ysgol Astudiaethau Creadigol ar Cyfryngau / School of Creative Studies and Media
Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University
Ffordd y Coleg / College Road
Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, UK
Ffôn / Phone: 0044-[0]1248-383619
E-bost / e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Hafan / Homepage
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Prif olygydd / Principal Editor, Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds
Ymchwilydd / Investigator:
"Computer gaming across cultures" (funded by the British Council, UK-India Education and Research Initiative)
"Transformative thinking: Using digital fiction as a tool for improving body image" (funded by the Welsh Crucible)
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