Category: Conferences and Seminars

Since the beginning of the 1990s, many scholars have shown concern for the plethora of gender stereotypes and sexist narratives in video games, as well as for the lower percentage of female players and of female game designers. Over time, the solutions advanced to avoid sexism and to bridge the gaps between men and women…

RE-CREATE 2015 The 10th anniversary and sixth international conference on the histories of Media, Art Science and Technology

Are we the species that plays—or are we better understood as the species that repeats?

You are invited to submit papers to the Game Studies paper competition for the upcoming ICA 2015 annual conference to be held 21-25 May 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Papers must be submitted online using the ICA online submission system (http://www.icahdq.org/cfp) by 11 p.m. Eastern U.S. time on 3 November 2014.

March 18-22, 2015 – Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel The ICFA welcomes papers on any aspect of the fantastic – including fantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, horror, gothic, and fairy tales.

May 21, 2015 San Juan, Puerto Rico Submission deadline: December 1, 2014

1973, was a landmark year in the history of videogames. Although PONG was released in 1972, Atari was not able to manufacture much more than about 400 units before the end of the year; by the end of 1973, there were an estimated 10,000 PONG machines and another 40,000 clones on the market. 1973 also…

In today’s mediatized culture and society, we use media for playing, performing, and participating in artistic practices but also in larger processes of cultural reproduction, social integration and socialization. The aim of the conference is to discuss the intermedial valences of play, performance and participation as increasingly intersecting practices.