[ecrea] Symposium: "Computer Gaming Across Cultures"

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:(a.ensslin /at/ bangor.ac.uk)

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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