[India] FW: [Gamesnetwork] DiGRA INDIA 2022 Conference Registrations are now open!

Fri Nov 11 20:02:18 UTC 2022

Dear Michael,

Hope you are well. We are extremely grateful for your encouragement and I
am passing this on to the rest of the DiGRA India community. Hope to see
you soon in some part of the world as we open up for in-person conferences.

Best regards,

Souvik

*Dr Souvik Mukherjee *| Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies | Centre
for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta| R - 1, Baishnabhghata Patuli
Township | T +91 033 2462-5795 / +91 033 2436-8313 | ext. 207 |
*https://cssscal.org/faculty_souvik.php
<https://cssscal.org/faculty_souvik.php>* |souvik at cssscal.org |

Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books
<http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/video-games-and-storytelling-souvik-mukherjee/?isb=9781137525048>
 (Palgrave MacMillan 2015) | *Videogames and Postcolonialism: The Empire
Plays Back*
<https://www.amazon.com/Videogames-Post-colonialism-Souvik-Mukherjee/dp/3319548212>
(Springer
UK 2017) | *Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s),
Representations
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/videogames-in-the-indian-subcontinent-9789354356919/>*
(Bloomsbury
India 2022)

On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 at 18:31, Nitsche, Michael <mn81 at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Hi Souvik,
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> As always: congratulations for being so productive! It is great to see
> DiGRA landing in India.
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> Best of luck for the conference and hope to see you around
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>
> Best
>
> Michael
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> Michael Nitsche
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> Georgia Institute of Technology
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> 85 Fifth Str. NW
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> Atlanta, GA 30308-1030
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> *From: *Gamesnetwork <gamesnetwork-bounces at lists.tuni.fi> on behalf of
> Souvik Mukherjee <prosperosmaze at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Friday, November 11, 2022 at 1:15 AM
> *To: *Games Research Network <GAMESNETWORK at uta.fi>
> *Subject: *[Gamesnetwork] DiGRA INDIA 2022 Conference Registrations are
> now open!
> *Resent-From: *<gamesnetwork at lists.tuni.fi>
> *Resent-Date: *Friday, November 11, 2022 at 1:15 AM
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>
> Dear All,
>
>
> The wait is over. We are super-thrilled to announce that DiGRA India
> Conference 2022 is all set to go live on 26 and 27 November 2022!  You may
> register for the conference for free via eventbrite
> <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digra-india-conference-2022-videogames-science-fiction-and-india-tickets-461944577667>
>
>
>
> This year's theme  *"Videogames, Science Fiction and India"* and we have
> a fantastic set of discussions lined up for you. You may check the whole
> program on our conference website
> <https://digraindia.com/digra-india-2022-conference/>.
>
>
>
> Keep an eye out for:
>
>
>
> *Keynote Addresses:*
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>
>
> *Title: "Yoga Firing Nuclear Gandhis: Video Games Science Fiction in
> India"*
>
> *Speaker: Sami Ahmed Khan, **Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions* *Postdoctoral
> Fellow, University of Oslo and Science Fiction Writer*
>
> In this address, Dr. Khan proposes a “transMIT thesis” to investigate how
> mythology (M), ideology (I) and technology (T) contour speculative
> imaginations as manifested in contemporary videogame narratives. It asks
> how videogames in, for, and about India engage with the mythic, negotiate
> socio-political otherization, and deploy newer technologies.
>
>
>
> You can read more here <https://digraindia.com/keynote-1/>.
>
>
>
> *Title: Speculative Play and Paratopian Design *
>
> *Speaker: Dr. Rilla Khaled, Associate Professor, Design and Computation
> Arts, Concordia University (Canada) and Director of Technoculture, Art, and
> Games (TAG) lab*
>
> In this address, Dr. Khaled makes a compelling case for "paratopian
> design" which is neither utopian or dystopian, to interrogate whether
> complex socio-cultural questions could be "playable" through familiar
> digital interfaces. Her talk draws on design examples from cooking-skill
> based immigration systems, flirtatious AI chatbots, futuristic matrimonial
> websites, and so much more to map paradigm shifts that push us to
> reconsider notions of "here" and "now".
>
>
>
> You can read more here <https://digraindia.com/keynote-2/>.
>
>
>
> *A DiGRA India Special adda
> <https://digraindia.com/games-studies-india-adda/>:*
>
>
>
> *Videogames and SF in India adda/plenary session: *
>
> An intriguing discussion featuring Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (University
> of Oslo) and Professor Simi Malhotra (Jamia Millia Islamia University) that
> will be moderated by Souvik Kar (IIT Hyderabad).
>
>
>
> You can read more about the session  here
> <https://digraindia.com/plenary/>.
>
>
>
> We look forward to having you with us as we speculate our ways through
> gamescapes,  Science Fiction, and so much more!
>
>
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> DiGRA India
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Souvik
>
>
>
> *Dr Souvik Mukherjee *| Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies | Centre
> for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta| R - 1, Baishnabhghata Patuli
> Township | T +91 033 2462-5795 / +91 033 2436-8313 | ext. 207 | *https://cssscal.org/faculty_souvik.php
> <https://cssscal.org/faculty_souvik.php>* |souvik at cssscal.org |
>
> *Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books*
> <http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/video-games-and-storytelling-souvik-mukherjee/?isb=9781137525048>
>  (Palgrave MacMillan 2015) | *Videogames and Postcolonialism: The Empire
> Plays Back*
> <https://www.amazon.com/Videogames-Post-colonialism-Souvik-Mukherjee/dp/3319548212> (Springer
> UK 2017) | *Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development,
> Culture(s), Representations
> <https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/videogames-in-the-indian-subcontinent-9789354356919/>* (Bloomsbury
> India 2022)
>
>
>
>
>
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