EVENT DETAILS

Critical Game Studies Symposium

Please join us for a one-day symposium on Critical Game Studies.

9:00 am | Coffee
9:15 am | Welcome & Introduction
9:30 - 11:00 am
Braxton Soderman (UC Irvine),  “Video Games as Critical Instances”
Bonnie Ruberg (USC),  “Queer Game Studies: How Queer Perspectives Are Changing Game Studies"
Stephanie Boluk (UC Davis), “Breaking the Metagame: Feminist Killjoys and Magic Circle Jerks”

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Aaron Trammell (USC), "Analog Games: A Counter History of Gaming and Technoculture"
Peter Krapp (UC Irvine), “Still the Great Game? Espionage in MMOs & Virtual Worlds”
Soraya Murray (UC Santa Cruz), “Is the 'Culture' in Game Culture the 'Culture' in Cultural Studies?”

12:30 - 1:15 pm | Lunch Break

1:15 - 2:45 pm
Alenda Chang (UC Santa Barbara), “On SpeedTrees and First-Person Walkers”
Patrick Lemieux (UC Davis), “This Is Not Super Mario Bros.: ROM Hacking Cory Arcangel’s Super Mario Clouds”
Josh Tanenbaum (UC Irvine), “Critical Making Meets Critical Game Studies: The Curious Case of the Quantified Toilet”

3:00 pm (HIB 100) - Plenary lecture by Paolo Pedercini (Carnegie Mellon), "SimCities and SimCrises"

This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Commons Digital Humanities Working Group, the Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games (IVECG), and the Department of Film & Media Studies .

Free and open to the public.