AMIA Student Chapter @ NYU calls for papers for a new event this Fall 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS: Pressing Restart: Community Discussions on Video Game Preservation.

Important Dates:

• Workshop Paper Deadline: June 15, 2013 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
• Workshop Paper Notifications: July 31, 2013 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
• Workshop Date: September 28, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Easter Standard Time New York, location TBA

When saving a game, what exactly are we saving, and how do we save such a complicated form of media? Pressing Restart: Community Discussions on Video Game Preservation is a one-day event dealing with the preservation of video games. By examining common issues such as hardware obsolescence, emulation software, selection criteria, and contextual information, this event will look at the myriad of concerns in this young media format as well as discuss solutions to ensure long-term access to games beloved by generations of players. Rather than limiting the discussion to archivists and preservationists, we plan to invite the whole community to have an open dialogue around the importance of video games.

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University of Malta- Institute of Digital Games and the Department of English

International Conference Series in Games and Literary Theory – Inaugural Conference

University of Malta, 31st October-1st November 2013

This inaugural event in the Digital Games and Literary Theory Conference Series follows on from a successful International Workshop held at the University of Malta last year. That event established the scope, appeal and timeliness of interdisciplinary research involving Game Studies and Literary Theory. While there are ample conference opportunities for discussion of the impact of Game Studies on other fields in the Humanities and on the amenability, in turn, of Game Studies to critique by those fields, events where the affinities with Literary Theory take centre stage are, by comparison, quite rare. This is surprising.

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