BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff4128207c DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T123000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/panel-emerging-voices-black -games-studies LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Panel on Emerging Voices in Black Games Studies CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:This panel highlights emerging scholars in Black game studies.\ nPanelists will present recent and/or ongoing work\, sharing a glimpse\nof the emerging research questions animating the field. Topics include\nBlac k worldbuilding in and across games (Fletcher)\, perceptions of\nBlack mal e exceptionalism in gaming cultures (Dashiell)\, and the\nrelationship bet ween avatar representation and Black user experience\nin social VR (DeVeau x). DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff412833ea DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230810T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230810T153000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/student-speaker-series-spee ch-human-agent-interaction-nima LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Student Speaker Series: Speech in Human-Agent Interaction with Nima \nZargham CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Due to technological advancements\, communicating with computer systems\nusing natural language has become a casual phenomenon. Speech-ba sed\nsystems\, like Siri or Cortana\, have become widely popular among peo ple\ndue to their convenience. Speech interaction encompasses a social\nco mponent as it reflects the fundamental human capacity for\ncommunication a nd enables interpersonal engagement through verbal\nexchange. This makes h uman-agent interaction an essential topic of\nresearch in the field of hum an-computer interaction. DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff41284253 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230809T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230809T123000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/panel-physiological-measure s-games-and-vr-novel-tools-and LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West The Games Institute Wa terloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:[PANEL] Physiological Measures for Games and VR: Novel Tools and\nA pproaches CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT CORRESPONDS WITH AN IN-PERSON WORKSHOP. SEPARATE\nRE GISTRATION REQUIRED AND SEATING IS LIMITED. DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff412851cd DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T103000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T120000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/indigenous-research-and-epi stemology-discussion LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 175 Columbia Street West 1323 Waterloo ON N2L 5Z5 Canada SUMMARY:Indigenous Research and Epistemology - a discussion CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:How should we conduct research in cooperation and partnership w ith\nIndigenous communities? What does it mean for Indigenous scholars and \nstudents to do research within the colonial structures and settler\nepis temologies of Western universities? The panelists\, consisting of\nIndigen ous students and researchers as well as settlers working with\nand for Ind igenous communities\, will share their perspectives and\nexperiences on th ese questions. They will begin a conversation to help\nus consider these a nd other issues related to Indigeneity in the\ncontext of Western academic cultures and practices\, and invite\nquestions and discussion to develop our capacity to Indigenize\nresearch and scholarship. DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff41285f79 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230510T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230510T140000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/custers-revenge-red-dead-re demption-changing-language LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 175 Columbia Street West 1323 Waterloo ON N2L 5Z5 Canada SUMMARY:From Custer's Revenge to Red Dead Redemption: Changing the Langu age\nof Indigenous Representation in Video Games CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Dr. Bird will emphasize the two types of language taking place in\nvideo games: mechanical\, coded language\, and visual\, representation al\nlanguage. She presents the importance of teaching the history of\nIndi genous representation in games and will break down various\nexamples from Custer’s Revenge to the Mortal Kombat and Red Dead\nRedemption series to demonstrate these types of gamic language. DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff41286cd0 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230425T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230425T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/just-relationships-research -panel LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 175 Columbia Street West 1323 Waterloo ON N2L 5Z5 Canada SUMMARY:Just Relationships for Research Panel CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:We are increasingly asked to envision and implement respectful and\nnon-extractive research involving marginalized communities. But we ar e\nrarely challenged to bring those principles to bear in our own\nresearc h groups\, where asymmetries of institutional power between\ncolleagues\, students\, and staff are normalized. This interdisciplinary\npanel will di scuss how to foster and maintain just relationships among\nresearchers\, w ith a focus on the principles and practices animating\nnon-extractive stud ent-supervisor relationships. DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff41287abc DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230419T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230419T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/changing-same-blackness-rep resentation-and-video-games LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 175 Columbia Street West 1323 Waterloo ON N2L 5Z5 Canada SUMMARY:The Changing Same: Blackness\, Representation\, and Video Games CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:A discussion of the promise and peril of POC video game charact er\nvoice acting\, focusing primarily on the connections of Black male\nan ger and Black fatherhood in God of War through the voice work of TC\nCarso n and Christopher Judge\, contextualized against the audio\nBrownface of t wo voice POC women characters in Uncharted: Legacy of\nThieves. DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff4128885a DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T151500 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/panel-designing-disability- and-accessibility LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 175 Columbia Street West Waterloo ON N2L 5Z5 C anada SUMMARY:Panel on Designing for Disability and Accessibility CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual panel with three researchers about their work\nand research in Accessibility in Digital Games and Virtual Reality.\ nThe panel will include Triskal deHaven\, Dr. Katta Spiel\, and Dr.\nCayle y McArthur. Triskal deHaven will lead the panel with frequently\nasked que stions about Virtual Reality and Accessibility\, research\nstudies within higher level education\, and some of the gaps in\nAccessibility that stude nts could pursue. Students are encouraged to\nask their own questions abou t these topics during the event. DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff412892c8 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T143000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230323T160000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/researching-disability-and- play-wheres-fun LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 175 Columbia Street West 1323 Waterloo ON N2L 5Z5 Canada SUMMARY:Researching Disability and Play - Where's the fun in that? CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Games research is slowly diversifying in matters of representat ion as\nwell as accessibility related investigations. Similarly\, a materi alist\nand embodied understanding of play (also digitally) seeps in more o n a\ntheoretical basis. However\, we need to critically examine what kind of\nbodies are invited to participate in play and how. Where games and\npl ay are mostly conceptualized as entertainment for the majority of\nbodies\ , disabled people are often relegated to playing for\n externally motivat ed purposes that are often driven by deficit\noriented medical models of d isability. Using the theory on the\nsurrogate body in play\, they illustr ate how it can be instrumental to\ncritically engage with norms governing digital play and identifying\ndesign opportunities playing with said bodil y norms to holistically\ncater to disabled audiences. They do so by focus ing on the critical\nanalytical category of disability not just through an access oriented\nlens per se\, but rather to bring principles of disabili ty justice to\nplay. DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69cff4128a186 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230223T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230223T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/impact-genuine-and-mindful- inclusion-marginalized LOCATION:EC1 - East Campus 1 200 University Ave West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Ca nada SUMMARY:The Impact of Genuine and Mindful Inclusion of Marginalized\nCommun ities in Creative Works. CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join Elaine Gómez as she will describe the importance of\nrepr esentation in games and digital media. She will speak to how\ngaming has t he power to destroy the perpetuation of stereotypical\nperceptions and wil l explain how games can be designed to create\nsocial impact in meaningful ways. DTSTAMP:20260403T170834Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR