[game_preservation] CFP: The History of Games International Conference, 21-23 June 2013

[Henry Lowood]

All, here is the CFP for this conference.  Henry



TheHistoryofGamesInternationalConference

1stedition:WorkingWith,Building,andTellingHistory

Montreal, Canada. June21st--23rd2013

Organizers:Espen Aarseth(ITUniversityofCopenhagen), Raiford 
Guins(StonyBrookUniversity), HenryLowood (Stanford University), Carl 
Therrien (UniversitédeMontréal).

Inspiteofthestrongwakeofgamestudiesinthelastdecade,thehistoryof videoand 
computergamesisstillinitsinfancyintheacademic 
world.Somesignificantcontributionshave 
beenmadeandcontinuetoemerge.Inordertomakethemostoutofthesecontributionsand 
toreflect onthe methodologicalissuestheyraise,wehavedecidedtocreate 
thefirst internationalconference 
onthehistoryofgames.Thiswillbetheoccasiontobringtogether academics, 
curators and museumexhibitors, introducethegeneral publicand students 
tothe historyofthemedium,andsensitizepartnersfromthegameindustrytotheir 
roleinterms of cultural heritageand preservation.

Weinviteproposalson thehistoryofgamesatlarge, aslong asitistied 
withtheelectro- mechanical 
/digitaldevelopmentofthephenomenon.Specialattentionshouldbegiventothe 
methodologicalissuesraisedbyyourhistoricalresearch. 
Theconferenceseeksoriginal 
submissionsfromresearchersinterestedindiverseareasofhistoricalstudyincluding,butnot 
limited to:social history, militaryhistory, culturalhistory, 
memorystudies, sensoryhistory, 
historyoftechnology,historyofplayandgames,historyofcomputing,arthistory, 
material culture, historical archaeology, as well as historical 
preservation, library and information science,and museum studies.

Theconferencewill explorethreemain areasof historical research. 
Weencourage contributorstoworkwithinoneoftheproposedtracks.Each 
trackwillbeledbyakeynote speakerto kick-offthediscussionsand debates:

.Building history:historiography, methods, issues,andframeworksatplayin 
building the historyofgames.

Keynotespeaker:HenryLowood

.Workingwith history:theconnectionsamong museumand librarystudies, 
curation, preservation,and thedevelopmentofhistorical research on games.

Keynotespeaker:Erkki Huhtamo

.Telling 
Histories:thepossibilitiesforhistoricalnarrativesaboutgames,whetherexpressed

in scholarlywriting, exhibitions, journalism, publicprojects, historical 
gamesorothermeans.

Keynotespeaker:StephenKline


Conferencehighlights

?Pioneerkeynotespeakers

?Roundtableswith selectedjournalists,museum curatorsand exhibitors, and 
scholars workingon history

?Selected paperswill bepublished in special issues 
ofGameStudiesandKinephanos, two peer-reviewed web journals

?Location:downtownMontreal, closeto thecentralbusand subwaystations

?Closing event:SymphonicvideogamemusicconcertatthenewMaison Symphonique 
deMontréal

?Festivalseason:theconferenceisheld between two 
ofthemostpopularinternational

festivalsinMontreal:Francofolies, andtheInternational Jazz Festival

?Special rateson selecthotelsforparticipants

Submissions

Proposalsshould beatleast1000wordsin length (plusreferences)and 
includeatitle, author's name,affiliationand shortC.V., and 
provideaclearsynopsisfora20-minuteconference length paper.

Deadlineforproposals:December15th2012.

Pleasesend proposalsto LaineNooney(_laine.nooney at gmail.com_).


Grandebibliothèque(photo:BernardFougères)


MaisonSymphoniquedeMontréal


-- 
Henry Lowood
Curator, History of Science & Technology Collections;
    Film & Media Collections
HSSG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford CA 94305-6004
650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood

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