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CFP: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions

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Conference announcement

Call for Papers, 15.12.14 FOR 13-16 July 2015, Liverpool UK

Trans-Atlantic dialogues on cultural heritage began as early as the voyages of Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus and continue through the present day. Each side of the Atlantic offers its own geographical and historical specificities expressed and projected through material and immaterial heritage. However, in geopolitical terms and through everyday mobilities, people, objects and ideas flow backward and forward across the ocean, each shaping the heritage of the other, for better or worse, and each shaping the meanings and values that heritage conveys. Where, and in what ways are these trans-Atlantic heritages connected? Where, and in what ways are they not? What can we learn by reflecting on how the different societies and cultures on each side of the Atlantic Ocean produce, consume, mediate, filter, absorb, resist, and experience the heritage of the other?

This conference is brought to you by the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (IIICH), University of Birmingham and the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP), University of Illinois and offers a venue for exploring three critical interactions in this trans-Atlantic dialogue: heritage, tourism and traditions. North America and Europe fashioned two dominant cultural tropes from their powerful and influential intellectual traditions, which have been enacted in Central/South America and Africa, everywhere implicating indigenous cultures. These tropes are contested and linked through historical engagement and contemporary everyday connections. We ask: How do heritages travel? How is trans-Atlantic tourism shaped by heritage? To what extent have traditions crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic? How have heritage and tourism economies emerged based upon flows of peoples and popular imaginaries?

The goal of the conference is to be simultaneously open-ended and provocative. We welcome papers from academics across a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, art history, architecture, business, communication, ethnology, heritage studies, history, geography, landscape architecture, literary studies, media studies, museum studies, popular culture, postcolonial studies, sociology, tourism, urban studies, etc. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

· The heritage of trans-Atlantic encounters

· Travelling intangible heritages

· Heritage flows of popular culture

· Re-defining heritage beyond the postcolonial

· The heritage of Atlantic crossings

· World Heritage of the Atlantic periphery

· Rooting and routing heritage

· Community and Nation on display

· Visualising the Trans-Atlantic world

Abstracts of 300 words with full contact details should be sent as soon as possible but no later than 15th December 2014 to ironbridge

CFPs for 2014

Conference,
START*DUE*CONFERENCETHEMELOCATION
21-Jun-1419-Jan-14dis2014(ACM) Designing Interactive Systems: Crafting DesignVancouver Canada
10-Aug-1420-Jan-14SIGGRAPH2014Computer Graphics and Interactive TechniquesVancouver Canada
27-Jun-1424-Jan-14Game historyCultural History of Video GamesMontreal Canada
9-Sep-1430-Jan-14VS-GamesIEE Serious GamesMalta
21-Mar-1431-Jan-14CAA UKComputer Applications & Quantitative Methods in ArchaeologyOxford
11-Jun-1431-Jan-14GLSGames Learning and SocietyWisconsin USA
10-Nov-1431-Jan-14ICOMOS GS and SSHeritage and Landscape and Human ValuesFlorence Italy
10-Sep-143-Feb-14eCAADe2014Data integration at its bestNorthumbria UK
17-Apr-1416-Feb-14www2014world wide webSeoul Korea
24-Sep-1421-Feb-14mobileHCI2014Toronto, Canada
9-Oct-1420-Mar-14ECGBL2014European Association of Game-based learningBerlin Germany
14-Sep-141-Apr-14CDVECooperative Design, Visualization and EngineeringSeattle USA
12-Nov-149-Apr-14ICMIMultimodal InteractionIstanbul Turkey
5-Oct-1416-Apr-14uist2014ACM User Interface Software and Technology SymposiumHonolulu Hawaii
27-Aug-1420-Apr-14OpenSYM2014Berlin Germany
28-Oct-1424-Apr-14nordichi2014NordiCHI 2014 – Fun, Fast, FoundationalHelsinki Finland
5-Oct-148-May-14CHI playACM CHI playToronto Canada
2-Dec-141-Jun-14Critical HeritageSessionsCanberra Australia
16-Oct-141-Jul-14meaningfulplayMeaningful playMichigan USA
31-Jan-151-Aug-14tei2015Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionStanford USA
6-Jun-1626-Jan-16DIS2016Designing Interactive SystemsBrisbane Australia
15-Nov-14?ICIDSInteractive Digital Storytelling ConferenceSingapore
3-Dec-14?siggraph asia 2014Shenzen China
6-Jul-15?DH2015Digital HumanitiesSydney Australia
14-Sep-15?Interact 2015Bamberg Germany

CfP: Game History Annual Symposium in Montreal

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Game History Annual Symposium

First Edition: Cultural History of Video Games

Montreal, Canada: June 27th-28th 2014

Submission deadline: January 24th 2014

Link to PDF document: http://www.sahj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Game-History-Annual-Symposium-CFP.pdf

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CfP text:

 

In spite of preservation and accessibility issues, the history of video games has become a topic of interest for a growing community of scholars and museum curators around the world. In Digital Play (2003), Stephen Kline, Greig de Peuter and Nick Dyer-Witheford invited us to understand video games as a complex network of interactions between industrial structures, technological innovations and sociocultural exchanges. In doing so, they also provided us with a useful tool to map out which areas have been explored more thoroughly, and which have been left out.

We seek to expand our understanding of the communities that forged and continue to forge game culture. The conference will propose two tracks: design histories, and play histories. These communities can be inspected through the material traces such as games, promotional artefacts, manuals and other props, as well as through direct observation or interviews. Thus, scholars from a variety of disciplines, such as media history, communication studies, cultural studies and sociology should feel welcome to submit. In gathering specialists from many fields, we hope to create a dynamic research environment to study the multiple communities that define gaming culture throughout history.

Invited speakers

▫ Tristan Donovan (Replay, 2010)

▫ Mia Consalvo (Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design)

▫ John Szczepaniak (The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers, 2014)

▫ Philippe Ulrich (Captain Blood; Dune; founder of Cryo)

 

Cultural events

▫ Game exhibition (curator: Skot Deeming)

▫ Concert by L’orchestre de jeux vidéo (Pollack hall, Mcgill University)

 

Tourism

▫ Special hotel rates for conference participants

▫ Centrally located near the subway and Quartier des spectacles

▫ 35th Montreal International Jazz Festival

 

Abstract submission

▫ 800 words plus bibliography

▫ Please indicate which track you want to be part of: design histories / play histories

▫ Submissions will be anonymized and reviewed by the conference chairs for the 2014 edition (Maude Bonenfant, Jonathan Lessard, Martin Picard, Carl Therrien)

▫ Submission deadline: January 24th 2014

▫ Please send to GameHistoryMTL@gmail.com