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The School of Cultural Studies at UWE presents:

Aphra Kerr
National University of Ireland, Maynoot

'Digital Games: New Media/New Pleasures?'

2 pm Wednesday  1st February 2006
room M030, St Matthias Campus
  
organised by the School of Cultural Studies
as part of the "Technology, Utopia, Affect" series
all welcome

directions to campus available at www.uwe.ac.uk

Play Group activities over the summer and autumn have been pretty much videogame-oriented. Please see power up for reports and details.

Extremely belated note to record the occurrence in May 2005 of playful subjects: technology, agency and play - an important international symposium organised by the Play Group. Full details of the event are here on the playful subjects site  - with comment and discussion on power up.

Renowned games scholar  Jesper Juul will be giving a guest lecture for the Game Culture students (and guests) on Thursday 21st April (7pm in room 9 at St. Matthias). His presentation is titled: Videogames in the mind of the player.

The playful subjects website has just been updated with presenter details, abstracts and info. on accommodation.

Helen and I have been teaching a new module on the MA Cultural and Media Studies called Game Culture. And we think it's been going rather well!

The module will occupy a central role in the new MA in New Media that was validated before Easter and will run from Sep 2005.

I was invited to show my video essay Circuits at Digiplay 4: teaching with, learning from, computer games at the London Knowledge Lab / Institute of Education last week (see powerup for a longer report). 

 The Play Research Group are hosting another symposium this year - May 14th.  Seth Giddings has been hard at work putting together a website for the event.  The site is still under development but you can preview it here www.playfulsubjects.org and register interest here admin@playfulsubjects.org

There are limited spaces for paying delegates but we have 10 free postgraduate places on a first come first served basis.

No excuses..

The Play Research Group is organising a one day symposium entitled Playful Subjects.

 

Look out for more details very soon.