CGSA: The Canadian Game Studies Association
CGSA Conference 2010
The 2010 Canadian Games Studies Association annual conference will be held in Montreal this year from May 28-29, in conjunction with the Congress of the Social Sciences & Humanities. This year, the theme for the congress is "Le savoir branché/Connected understandings".
As usual, we invite both national and international paper proposals, on digital games research, broadly defined. In keeping with this year's Congress theme we also encourage work that arises from 'connections' among scholars, researchers, and player communities -- ie. that represents and reports on collaborative work across linguistic, institutional, and disciplinary boundaries.
Please send your extended abstracts, maximum 500 words, to either Jen Jenson (jjenson@edu.yorku.ca) or Nick Taylor (nickttayor@gmail.com) by January 10, 2010.
For information about the event, please contact Cindy Poremba, site co-ordinator (c_poremb@alcor.concordia.ca).
DIGRA 2009 CFP
The South of Britain Consortium are pleased to announce the first Call for Papers for the Digital Games Research Association 2009. DiGRA is an organisation that embraces all aspects of game studies, and the conference aims to provide a diverse platform for discussion, and a lively forum for debate. We therefore welcome papers from any discipline focused on any aspect of games, play, game culture and the games industry. The conference will be the fourth DiGRA conference, following Utrecht, Vancouver and Tokyo, and welcomes contributions from scholars working in any area of interest to the association. The official business of the Subject Association will also be conducted at the conference.
Key Dates
- Deadline for all abstracts and workshop/panel/symposia proposals: Friday 6 March 5pm GMT
- Deadline for full papers for inclusion in digital proceedings: Friday 26 June 2009 5pm GMT
- Notification of abstract acceptance: June 1 2009
- Conference Dates: 1-4th September 2009
For more info, please visit http://digra.org/
CGSA's 3rd Annual Conference (CFP extended)
Canadian Game Studies Association, 3rd Annual Conference
Carleton University, Ottawa Canada
May 23-24, 2009
"Oh, the places you'll go: The Politics of Place in Globalized Gaming Landscapes"
In conjunction with this year's Congress 2009 theme “Nation,Terroir, Territoire,” we invite applications that are concerned in broad terms with notions of community, identity and social/cultural politics in relation to digital games. Topics include, but are by no means limited to:
- work and play in virtual worlds
- gaming communities, both local and global
- contexts of play
- gender, race, nationality, sexuality in relation to games and gameplayers
Abstracts no longer than 500 words for full paper presentations are invited. Panel presentation proposals will also be considered and should include an overview of the panel, and short abstracts of 100-250 words for each panel presentation. Proposals should be sent to Dr. Jennifer Jenson at jjenson@edu.yorku.ca no later than January 31, 2009. February 15th, 2009.
40th International Conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association
ISAGA 2009 is the 1st S.E.Asian and 40th International Conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association, hosted by the Society of Simulation and Gaming of Singapore, and supported by the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Tenchological University, and Simulation & Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal. The methodology of simulation/gaming is used extensively in a wide range of areas, including planning, policy, government, business, economics, crisis management, natural disaster training, police, healthcare, education, human rights, science, natural resource management. The ISAGA 2009 will be a unique opportunity to learn more about the applications, methods, practices, technologies and latest research. We welcome your participation. More information will be found at http://www.isaga2009.org
Funding Received for SSHRC Funded Invitational Workshop
We're proud to announce that we have received funding to hold a CGSA Invitational Workshop on September 19-21 in Vancouver BC!
The theme of the workshop will be consolidation through extension. By inviting active collaboration across a developing scholarly community of practice, the workshop will serve to outline synergies and map out lines of assent and dissent, across the specific projects and research trajectories of invited Canadian faculty. The European scholars we have invited are particularly well-qualified to offer well-informed, critical perspectives on the ‘cartography’ of games studies across the presentations, and in their more distanced scholarly communities; we will welcome their viewpoints on the field’s ‘foundations’, in the form of assessments, criticisms, and suggestions for the advancement of our research individually and collectively, to critically inform the future development of the field in this country.
2nd Annual Conference 2008 (Now Closed)
Canadian Game Studies Association
University of British Columbia
DATE: 31 May 2008
Paper and panel proposals are invited for our second annual conference to be held in conjunction with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences (http://www.fedcan.ca/english/congress/about/). This years theme is “Thinking Beyond Borders | Global Ideas: Global Values”. Not all presentations need be related to this theme. Submissions are invited on all topics related to digital games and digital games research, especially those that can show an interdisciplinary or international perspective. It should be noted that all presenters will be invited to submit their papers to the journal.
General guidelines
- Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent no later than
March 3rd , 2008(CALL IS NOW CLOSED) to Dr. Jennifer Jenson (jjenson@edu.yorku.ca) or Dr. Suzanne de Castell (decaste@sfu.ca). - Panel presentations will also be considered in limited numbers. Panel presentations should include an overview of no more than 250 words, in addition to a brief summary of papers/presentations to be included of no more than 100 words each. A discussant and/or chair for the panel should also be specified.
- Authors submitting papers should also join CGSA (see http://contagion.edu.yorku.ca/cgsa for details).
- Papers selected for presentation (blind review by a minimum of two reviewers) will be grouped by conference organizers by subject and/or topic area.
- Individual paper presentations will be given 20 minute time slots in multi-paper sessions.
Annual General Meeting 2007 – Voting Results
As some of you may recall, at our meeting in 2006 at York University, a decision was made to register CGSA as a scholarly society. In accordance with this decision, our first annual general meeting as a society was held Friday, November 15th, 2007 in the Novotel Hotel, Downtown Toronto. This meeting was held in conjunction with the Futureplay 2007 conference.
One important item of business for the AGM was the issue of nominations for the CGSA Board of Directors. Board terms are for one year and the following Board positions were open to nomination: President, Vice-President, Secretary Treasurer and Members-at-Large.
The following were nominated for the roles as specified:
- Jennifer Jenson – President
- Mike Katchabaw – Vice President
- Nick Taylor – Secretary Tresurer
- Katrin Becker – CGSA Chair to the Loading Journal Committee
- Suzanne de Castell – CGSA Annual Conference Chair
The following were nominated as members-at large:
- Jim Parker
- Cindy Poremba
- Dawn Mercer
- Kathy Sanford
- Jim Bizzocchi
- Bernard Perron
- Kevin Kee
- Lynn Hughes
We'd like to thank all who showed up and took part in this year's AGM and hope to see you all again next year!
See more details on last year's CGSA event, the CGSA Symposium 2006
Latest News
CFP: CGSA Annual Conference 2010
Click below for all the details regarding deadlines, location and more
October. 17th, 2009 | Click For More
Call for Papers: Spring 2010 Issue of Loading...
The Loading... journal is commencing its intake for the Spring issue. Visit journal at link below to submit!
October. 17th, 2009 | Loading... Journal
Call for applications: Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University
Check out the PDF link below for more on this terrific opportunity.
August. 27th, 2009 | CRC Details (PDF)
CGSA 3rd Symposium Program
Click below to download the Program Schedule!
April. 7th, 2009 | Schedule (PDF)