We are pleased to announce the International Conference on Japan Game Studies 2013 to be held at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, May 24-26, 2013.
This conference is collaboratively organized by Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, the Prince Takamado Japan Centre, and the Canadian Institute for Research Computing in the Arts, University of Alberta with support from the GRAND Network of Centres of Excellence.
The conference is the second collaboratively organized conference focusing broadly on Japanese game culture, education and industry.
We invite a broad range of papers dealing with game culture, education and games and the Japanese game industry from the perspectives of humanities, social sciences, business or education. The range of topics has typically included (but is not limited to):
- Cross cultural study of games and toys
- Localization of games
- Assessment of educational aspects of games
- Preservation of games and game culture
- Understanding player culture
- Game industry (in Japan and transnationally)
- Games and transmedia phenomena
- Games of chance
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words via email to ptjc@ualberta.ca, before February 15, 2013. Figures, tables and references, which do not count towards the 500 words, may be included on a second page. Please submit your anonymized abstract (and supporting second page) in PDF format with a just title. The following information should be in the accompanying email message: Title of paper, Name of author(s), Affiliation(s), Address(es), Phone (and Fax) number(s), and Email address(es). Notification of acceptance will be send out by March 1, 2013. Abstracts will be accepted in English.
For more information about the International Conference on Japan Game Studies 2013, visit the conference home page.