<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Dear Michael,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8pt"><font color="#000000" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Best regards,</font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8pt"><font color="#000000" face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8pt"><font color="#000000" face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Souvik</font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:maroon"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="1"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:maroon">Dr Souvik Mukherjee </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">|</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:maroon"><b> </b>Assistant<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:maroon">Professor in Cultural Studies</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:maroon"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">|</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:maroon"> Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">|</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:maroon"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#990000">R - 1, Baishnabhghata Patuli Township</font><font style="color:maroon"> </font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">|</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:maroon"> T +91 033 2462-5795 / +91 033 2436-8313 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">|</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:maroon"> ext. 207 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">|</span><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0b5394"> </font></span><span lang="EN-US"><u><a href="https://cssscal.org/faculty_souvik.php" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">https://cssscal.org/faculty_souvik.php</font></a></u><font color="#ffcc00"> |</font><a href="mailto:souvik@cssscal.org" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">souvik@cssscal.org</font></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:blue"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">| </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/video-games-and-storytelling-souvik-mukherjee/?isb=9781137525048" style="text-align:justify;font-style:italic" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books</font></a><i style="color:rgb(61,133,198);text-align:justify"> </i><span style="text-align:justify">(Palgrave MacMillan 2015) </span><span style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">| </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Videogames-Post-colonialism-Souvik-Mukherjee/dp/3319548212" style="text-align:justify" target="_blank"><i><font color="#0b5394">Videogames and Postcolonialism: The Empire Plays Back</font></i></a><span style="text-align:justify"> (Springer UK 2017) </span><font color="#ffcc00">| </font><i><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/videogames-in-the-indian-subcontinent-9789354356919/" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s), Representations</font></a></i> <font color="#000000">(Bloomsbury India 2022)</font></font></p><div><div><font size="1"><br></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,204,0)"><br><br></span></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 at 18:31, Nitsche, Michael <<a href="mailto:mn81@gatech.edu">mn81@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4809961131588001795">
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<p class="MsoNormal">As always: congratulations for being so productive! It is great to see DiGRA landing in India.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best of luck for the conference and hope to see you around <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Michael Nitsche<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Associate Professor in Digital Media<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Gamesnetwork <<a href="mailto:gamesnetwork-bounces@lists.tuni.fi" target="_blank">gamesnetwork-bounces@lists.tuni.fi</a>> on behalf of Souvik Mukherjee <<a href="mailto:prosperosmaze@gmail.com" target="_blank">prosperosmaze@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, November 11, 2022 at 1:15 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Games Research Network <<a href="mailto:GAMESNETWORK@uta.fi" target="_blank">GAMESNETWORK@uta.fi</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Gamesnetwork] DiGRA INDIA 2022 Conference Registrations are now open!<br>
<b>Resent-From: </b><<a href="mailto:gamesnetwork@lists.tuni.fi" target="_blank">gamesnetwork@lists.tuni.fi</a>><br>
<b>Resent-Date: </b>Friday, November 11, 2022 at 1:15 AM<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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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 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digra-india-conference-2022-videogames-science-fiction-and-india-tickets-461944577667" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Garamond,serif">eventbrite</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Title: "Yoga Firing Nuclear Gandhis: Video Games Science Fiction in India"</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)">In this address, Dr. Khan proposes a “transMIT thesis” to investigate how mythology (M), ideology (I) and technology (T) contour speculative imaginations as manifested
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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 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(48,48,48)">that
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:maroon">Dr Souvik Mukherjee </span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(255,204,0)">|</span><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:maroon"> </span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:maroon">Assistant<b> </b>Professor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/video-games-and-storytelling-souvik-mukherjee/?isb=9781137525048" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">Videogames and Storytelling:
Reading Games and Playing Books</span></i></a><i><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"> </span></i>(Palgrave MacMillan 2015) <span style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">| </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Videogames-Post-colonialism-Souvik-Mukherjee/dp/3319548212" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">Videogames
and Postcolonialism: The Empire Plays Back</span></i></a> (Springer UK 2017) <span style="color:rgb(255,204,0)">|
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