[Dutch-chapter] Invitation | DiGRA Flanders meeting | 21 May 2015 | Keynote by Catherine Beavis

[Jeroen Bourgonjon]

Dear researchers and professionals with an interest in video games,

We are pleased to announce the next *DiGRA Flanders meeting *in the 
Ghent City Museum (STAM).

*Where? *

STAM, Bijlokesite, Godshuizenlaan 2 - 9000 Ghent.

*When? *

21-05-2015, doors open at 12.45.

*Registration*

Registration is free at 
http://www.gameonderzoek.be/index.php/page/register.html

*Invited keynote speaker*

Catherine Beavis 
<http://www.griffith.edu.au/education/school-education-professional-studies/staff/academic-staff/catherine-beavis>(Griffith 
University – Australia)

Catherine’s research expertise centers on the changing nature of text 
and the implications for literacy, education and schooling of young 
people’s engagement with digital culture and the online world. She 
researches in the areas of English curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; 
digital culture and computer games; digital literacy and new literacies 
and games-based learning. She has undertaken numerous research projects 
focused on English education, and on literacy, digital culture, young 
people and computer games.

In her keynote lecture, Catherine will talk about the Australian 
Research Council Project Serious Play: Using digital games in school to 
promote literacy and learning in the twenty first century 
<http://www.griffith.edu.au/professional-page/catherine-beavis/research/serious-play>(2011-2014). 
She will also address working with games in the English classroom, and 
present a model for critical games literacy which entails thinking of 
games as both text and action. Catherine will describe the ways in which 
the model might be used for planning and teaching with and about games, 
stressing the active nature of games and play, and calling on 
understandings of literacy as design.

*Programme overview***

12.45-13.00Doors open
13.00-13.10Welcome
13.10-13.40In-game advertising in fantasy games: the role of thematic 
congruity
13.10-13.40Shana Verberckmoes - Antwerp University
13.40-14.10Shapes: a tactile digital game for physical rehabilitation
13.40-14.10Niels Quinten - University of Hasselt
14.10-14.40Using games to raise awareness. How to co-design serious 
mini-games?
14.10-14.40Klara Van Geit & Liselot Hudders - Ghent University
14.40-14.55Break
14.55-15.25Virtual Fashion: Understanding the rhetoric and culture of 
dress up in digital games
14.55-15.25Nicolle Lamerichs - HU University of Applied Sciences - The 
Netherlands
15.25-15.55The inevitable link between (the knowledge center for) 
medialiteracy and gaming.
15.25-15.55Elke Boudry & Hadewych Vanwynsberghe - Mediawijs.be
15.55-16.10Break
16.10-17.30Keynote lecture: Games as text and action: literacy, learning 
and serious play
16.10-17.30Catherine Beavis

See you in Ghent!

-- 
Jeroen Bourgonjon
FWO Research Fellow / Chair DiGRA Flanders

Dept. of Educational Studies
Ghent University

Bureau 120.018
H. Dunantlaan 2
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium

Tel. +32 (0)9 264 8676 (direct)
Tel. +32 (0)9 264 8664
Fax. +32 (0)9 264 8688
Mail: Jeroen.Bourgonjon at UGent.be

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