{"id":290,"date":"2021-10-21T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T08:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/artsandculture\/?p=290"},"modified":"2021-11-26T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T12:15:46","slug":"call-for-papers-queering-game-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/artsandculture\/call-for-papers-queering-game-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: Queering Game Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Digital Symposium: Queering Game Studies  <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Game Studies and LGBTQIA+ Analysis, Authorship and Activism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feb 16th 2022 Online, 09:30-16:30 GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Game Studies is a broad field of inquiry into not just games themselves, but their communities of players and creators, and the technical platforms which facilitate play. More recently, titles like Queer Game Studies<\/em> (Ruberg and Shaw, eds. 2017) and The Queer Games Avant-Garde<\/em> (Ruberg, 2020) have explored the role of queer creativity within games production and queer perspectives on games and play. This symposium aims to bring together a diverse array of voices to continue discussions around LGBTQIA+ analysis, authorship and activism occurring in games as a creative and academic field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The symposium will feature a pre-recorded keynote talk from Bo Ruberg, author of Video Games Have Always Been Queer <\/em>(2019) and The Queer Games Avant-Garde <\/em>(2020) and co-author of Queer Game Studies <\/em>(Ruberg & Shaw, 2017). Ruberg is also the author of the upcoming Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies <\/em>(forthcoming, MIT Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics include but are not limited to:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Queer Representation in Games<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intersections of Game Analysis and Queer Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ludic Representations of LGBTQIA+ History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communities and Platforms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oppression and Resistance  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exploring Work of LGBTQIA+ Game Devs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queerness and Non-Digital Games<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Games Education, Inclusion and Intersectionality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in presenting at the symposium, please provide an abstract of around 300 words, as well as a short biographical description including your field and level of studies and your pronouns. We welcome contributions from early-career researchers and graduate students. Please email your expressions of interest to joe.baxter-webb@canterbury.ac.uk<\/a> before the 17th of December 2021<\/strong> (previously 26th November 2021).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Symposium Organiser: Dr. Joe Baxter-Webb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Committee Members:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Katja Hallenberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Andrew M. Butler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Joe Baxter-Webb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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