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I'm an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences at City University of New York, with joint appointments in Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. I also have an appointment as a Visiting Scholar at New York University. My research interests include cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging, glaucoma, neurodegenerative disorders, attention, learning, memory, educational technology, pedagogy, and developing games for education.
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Announcing the 2016 Game Devs of Color Expo: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM

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Announcing the 2016 Game Devs of Color Expo: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM

The concept of race affects everyone, yet people often avoid discussing it. This is especially true within the context of games. Join us for the 2016 Game Devs of Color Expo, a two-part event where we’ll explore the intersection of race and games!

In our day-long event, we will hold a roundtable as well as an arcade. The roundtable will enable attendees to share and learn about experiences as game creators and game players from different backgrounds. At the arcade, you’ll be able to play a selection of incredible games made by people of color. Come encounter some great new perspectives and games!

The 2016 Game Devs of Color Expo is open to people of all genders, races, and sexual orientations. We want this to be a safe space to express yourself. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to make you feel comfortable attending this event.

Arcade submissions

Are you a game developer of color who wants to show your game at the arcade? Submit your game using this form! We will contact you to confirm.

Game submissions are open until December 31, 2015.

Need-based free tickets

Brooklyn Gamery aims to make this event accessible by offering low-cost tickets. However, we also know some people have low/no income and therefore are unable to afford the $5 ticket. If this is the case for you, please contact us at [email protected] – we will happily help you gain access to this event.

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U. Maryland opens call for abstracts for In Play

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Albert Einstein wrote, “Play is the highest form of research.” In Play, a one-day conference, explores play as the principle of innovation and experimentation that underwrites gaming, performance, and other cultural, social, and aesthetic activities. Key questions In Play poses include: How can the study of computer gaming, in line with studies of other cultural forms and productions, contribute to culture studies in the academy? How have embodied performance and play historically enabled possibilities for both freedom and domination, for the making as well as unmaking of societies? How does a focus on play complicate recent scholarship on the global history of experimental art forms?

In Play invites proposals for posters and demonstrations—conceived as tabletop presentations involving any type of media—that investigate the question of play. We especially encourage digital projects that supplement or link to posters, as well as mixed media presentations, performances, games (both digital and tabletop) and research projects. Undergraduate, graduate, and faculty proposals are welcome. Potential interventions in play might include:

Play in literature and literature as play
Playing with gender, sexuality, race, class, or (dis)ability
Mathematical, technological, and scientific discoveries
Adaptations
New Media
Gaming and game theory
Rule-breaking
Playing and Pedagogy
Subversion
Theater and performance
Artistic experiments
Game designs and prototypes, whether digital or tabletop

Posters and demonstrations will be set up as the centerpiece of the conference for the duration of the event as well as, where possible, for at least a week beforehand.

Prizes will be awarded to student projects.

Please submit 500-word proposals or descriptions to [email protected] by 12/15/2015.

Please include poster title, full name, affiliation, contact information, and brief biography (250 words). Please inform us if you require technological accommodation. Any questions should be directed to [email protected].

Plenary speakers for In Play include:

Patrick Jagoda, University of Chicago
Anastatia Salter, University of Central Florida
Julius Fleming, Jr., University of Maryland
C. Riley Snorton, Cornell University
McKenzie Wark, The New School
For more information, visit our website: http://english.umd.edu/InPlay or follow us on Twitter @InPlayUMD.

http://www.gradschool.umd.edu/newsroom/1086