[Commlist] Call for Abstracts - Video Game Studies Conference (SVI2)

The University of Novi Sad, Academy of Arts,

The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology,

and Serbian Games Association(SGA)

invite you to the Second International Conference of Video Game 
Studies(SVI2)

VIDEO GAMES AS A CHALLENGE TO ACADEMIA - 50 YEARS OF THE GAMING INDUSTRY

Novi Sad, Serbia DECEMBER 10th-11th 2022


Five decades after Magnavox Odyssey, the first home gaming console, came 
to market, and five decades after the founding of Atari, the second 
international Video Game Studies conference (SVI), titled Video-Games as 
a Challenge to Academia: 50 Years of the Gaming Industry, aims to 
examine various aspects and links between the gaming industry, 
video-game scholarship and criticism. The aim of such a 
conceptualisation is to open a dialogue between the gaming industry and 
the academe, and foster an understanding of their sometimes diverging 
goals and interests. Such a dialogue revolves around several key questions:

· What can scholarship, without giving up on critical thinking, offer 
the industry, and vice versa?

· Can the industry survive its crises alone, and should scholarship lend 
a hand?

· Can academia remain separate from the industry?

· Finally, is the market changing gaming, or is gaming conquering the 
marketplace?

The conference is organised into three broad thematic sections dedicated 
to exploring the relations between video games, industry, academia and 
criticism.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Olli Sotamaa, Professor of Game Culture Studies at the Tampere University

Attila Szantner, CEO and co-founder of MMOS(Massively Multiplayer Online 
Science)

The official language of the conference is English. Abstracts of up to 
300 words, with up to 5 keywords before September 15th, 2022 should be 
sent to (conference.svi /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(conference.svi /at/ gmail.com)>


Please visit our website for detailed information 
https://sviconference.org <https://sviconference.org>


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