Join in viewing Chelsea’s Story - an upcoming virtual production from February 22nd-25th, 2023, presented by SASC & MT Space, for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day - February 22.
Join in viewing Chelsea’s Story - an upcoming virtual production from February 22nd-25th, 2023, presented by SASC & MT Space, for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day - February 22.
Join in viewing Chelsea’s Story - an upcoming virtual production from February 22nd-25th, 2023, presented by SASC & MT Space, for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day - February 22.
Visit the art installation at the Student Life Centre on Tuesday, February 28th from 10 am to 8 pm or Wednesday, March 1st from 10 am to 5 pm which showcases student-survivor descriptions of clothes they were wearing during an experience of sexual violence.
Visit the art installation at the Student Life Centre on Tuesday, February 28th from 10 am to 8 pm or Wednesday, March 1st from 10 am to 5 pm which showcases student-survivor descriptions of clothes they were wearing during an experience of sexual violence.
A discussion of the promise and peril of POC video game character voice acting, focusing primarily on the connections of Black male anger and Black fatherhood in God of War through the voice work of TC Carson and Christopher Judge, contextualized against the audio Brownface of two voice POC women characters in Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves.
The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Dr. Niigaan Sinclair, professor, writer, and activist who holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics at the University of Manitoba.
With recent waves of layoffs, high-profile workplace harassment cases, and a notoriously short career length for gender minorities and people of colour, the transition of new workers into the game industry involves navigating a spate of barriers to equity and success that have been understudied in academic research. The First Three Years is an ongoing longitudinal study of graduates of game programs in Canada and the United States, following the journey of 207 students as they move into the game industry. In this workshop, our research team will summarise the primary challenges students have identified in their game programs. This summary includes equity and diversity issues inherent in common curricular practices such as the efficacy of capstone courses and internships, the inclusion of crunch-like practices in the classroom, the systematic failure to inform students of actual workplace conditions, and the mismatch between student preparation and industry hiring practices. Afterwards, participants will address whether/how these problems manifest in their own institutions, and what solutions might improve equity outcomes for students seeking careers in games.
This event is part of the “ADE for Game Communities: Enculturing Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ADE) in Games Research and Creation” series from the ADE Committee of the Games Institute, University of Waterloo, and is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Chelsea Vowel, a public intellectual, writer, educator, and Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.
Please join us on February 8 for Chelsea's engaging presentation "âniskôhôcikan, Like a String of Beads: Indigenous Futurisms." Indigenous futurisms, a term coined by Grace Dillon and indebted to Afrofuturism, seeks to describe a movement of art, literature, games, and other forms of media that express Indigenous perspectives on the future, present, and past. How can Indigenous futurisms help us think and act otherwise?
Please note: Registration is appreciated but not required. Everyone is welcome!