Fwd: [GAMESNETWORK] Chinese DiGRA and (Chinese) Game Conference

[Tan Chek Tien]

another interesting initiative..

regards,

Chek

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From: Paul Martin <paul....@nottingham.edu.cn>
Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:35 PM
Subject: [GAMESNETWORK] Chinese DiGRA and (Chinese) Game Conference
To: GAMESN...@uta.fi


This is a reminder that the deadline for the (Chinese) Game Studies Conference, taking place on April 19th and 20th at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, is this coming Monday the 16th of February. We are also taking proposals for a PhD consortium to be run on the 18th of April. The full call, in English and Mandarin, is available here: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=35326&copyownerid=60020.

We are also pleased to announce, hot on the heels of DiGRA Australia, that this will be the inaugural event for Chinese DiGRA.

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Call for participation: (Chinese) Games Studies Conference

We are pleased to announce the ‘(Chinese) Game Studies Conference’, to be held at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, April 19th-20th 2014.

Game studies – or the academic study of digital games – is a relatively new field, drawing scholars from a range of disciplines who are interested in the formal, cultural, and social aspects of digital games. It has developed most rapidly in Europe and North America, but game studies also has significant presence elsewhere, with an emerging tradition in areas of the Chinese-speaking world. This conference hopes to begin to bridge these traditions and foster the development of game studies in the region.
‘Chinese’ has a multitude of (contested) meanings. We are using the term broadly here and hope to be as inclusive as possible, but we also hope that the conference can tackle some of the challenges of this designation. Specifically, what is ‘Chinese’ game studies? Are there distinctly ‘Chinese’ gaming cultures? If so, are they/should they be the subject of specific scholarly attention? How does game studies in the Chinese-speaking world relate to the wider game studies community?

Conference languages will be English and Mandarin. The conference intends to bring together scholars conducting humanities and social science based games research in the Chinese-speaking world as well as scholars researching on Chinese games and gaming cultures.

We are accepting papers in both English and Mandarin, and will have simultaneous interpretation at the conference. The conference has two aims:

1.      To bring together scholars working in the region or on Chinese games and gaming cultures.
2.      To connect Chinese game studies with the wider game studies community.

To encourage the development of game studies in the region, the conference will be preceded by a PhD consortium on Friday April 18th.

Papers are welcome on any aspect of digital games and gaming cultures so long as they approach the topic from a humanities or social sciences perspective. We are particularly looking forward to presentations with a focus on:
•       Chinese gaming cultures (digital as well as non-digital)
•       Chinese game studies
•       Close readings of Chinese games
•       The reception of ‘Western’ games in China
•       Games and game studies in a time of globalisation

We are in discussion with a publisher who has expressed an interest in turning selected papers from the conference into book chapters in an edited collection on gaming and game studies in the Chinese speaking world.

Invited speakers
•       Espen Aarseth (ITU Copenhagen)
•       Gino Yu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Practical information
Conference paper presentations can be in English or Mandarin.
Please send a 250 word abstract in English or Mandarin to Paul....@Nottingham.edu.cn or Bjarke.Li...@Nottingham.edu.cn no later than February 16th 2014.
PhD presentations must be in English
Please send a 250 word abstract in English to Paul....@Nottingham.edu.cn or Bjarke.Li...@Nottingham.edu.cn no later than February 16th 2014.
Two travel grants are available for attending PhD students to whom travel costs will present a hardship. The organisers will determine recipients based on motivated letters of application sent to Paul....@Nottingham.edu.cn or Bjarke.Li...@Nottingham.edu.cn no later than February 16th 2014.

Notice of acceptance will be sent no later than March 1st 2014.

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