<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Dear All, </font><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">We hope this email finds you well. We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers for the upcoming DiGRA India Conference 2021 scheduled to be held on 20-21 November.</font></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">You can register using this link:</font><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/games-cultures-and-india-dispatches-from-a-playful-subcontinent-tickets-201661042607" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/games-cultures-and-india-dispatches-from-a-playful-subcontinent-tickets-201661042607</a></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Keynote Address 1</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Date: 20 November 2021</font></b></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b>Title : "White Protagonism and Imperial Pleasures in Game Design"</b> </font></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Speaker: Meghna Jayanth</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM IST ( tentatively )</font></b></div><div><br></div><div>Bio: </div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b>Meghna Jayanth </b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Meghna Jayanth is an award-willing writer and narrative designer. Her game 80 Days, an anti-colonial retrofuturist retelling of Verne's classic novel, won the Independent Games Festival's Narrative award, earned four BAFTA nominations (including Best Story) and was named TIME's Game of the Year. She won a Writer's Guild of Great Britain award in 2015 for her work on 80 Days, and a Writer's Guild of America award in 2018 as part of Horizon: Zero Dawn's writing team.<br>She contributes worldbuilding, story design and writing to narratives, most of them indie games, including Failbetter's lush story-driven games Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies, expansions of 11 Bit's gritty, uncompromising This War of Mine, Kitfox Games' queer dungeoneering dating sim Boyfriend Dungeon, Outerloop Games' story of colonial liberation and companionship Falcon Age, and Shedworks' evocative coming-of-age adventure Sable.<br>Her particular interests are elegant choice design, sociocultural speculations, branching narratives, and subverting the design tropes of conventional protagonism.<br></font></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Keynote Address 2</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Date: 21 November 2021</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Title: "Gaming as Ghosts: Spectres and Absences in Games and Game Cultures"</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Speaker(s): Poonam Chowdhury and Zahra Rizvi</font></b></div><div><b><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm IST (tentatively</font></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Bio</div><div><br></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b>Poonam Chowdhury</b></font></div><div><span id="m_-951360093898472712gmail-docs-internal-guid-4c5d0ffc-7fff-dff6-be2a-85c0d935be50"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Poonam Chowdhury (she/her) is a PhD student at the Indian and World Literatures Department, English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India. Her research interests include mindful gaming, indie video games, empathy and play, game-spaces, gender issues in video games, and slow gaming. She is a founding-member of the newly formed Indian chapter of Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), formerly known as Game Studies India Adda Initiative. She is also one of the two diversity officers and finance officers here. She also leads the Special Interest Group on Computational Humanities and Computational Analytics for Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI). </font></span></p></span><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><b>Zahra Rizvi: </b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Zahra Rizvi (she/her/hers) is Ph.D. scholar at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India. Her research interests include utopia/dystopia gamescapes, indie games, young adult participatory spaces, and ethics of care in/and play. She is a founding-member of the newly-formed Indian chapter of Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), formerly known as Games Studies India Adda Initiative. She was recently Ministry of Education-SPARC Fellow in Digital Humanities and Digital Cultures at Michigan State University, and is a member of the Digital Humanities Research Group at Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. </font><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">We look forward to your participation! Please ensure that you <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/games-cultures-and-india-dispatches-from-a-playful-subcontinent-tickets-201661042607" target="_blank">register early </a>as we have limited seats available. We will be making the conference programme available shortly!</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Thanking you, </font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">DiGRA India Team</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman",serif;text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><img src="cid:ii_kvtlo1t83" alt="WhatsApp Image 2021-11-10 at 19.39.32.jpg" width="260" height="368" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div><img src="cid:ii_kvtlfol51" alt="Poster.jpg" width="265" height="413" style="margin-right:0px"><br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman",serif;text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman",serif;text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman",serif;text-align:justify;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></div>
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