{"id":84,"date":"2013-06-12T11:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T01:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/?p=84"},"modified":"2013-06-12T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T01:49:49","slug":"first-international-game-history-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/play-it-again\/2013\/06\/12\/first-international-game-history-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"First International Game History Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first international game history conference is happening in Montreal in just over a week&#8217;s time.\u00a0 The <a title=\"History of Games\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history-of-games.com\" target=\"_blank\">History of Games <\/a>conference features keynotes from Stephen Kline, Erkki Huhtamo, and Henry Lowood, as well as roundtables from notable figures in the wider academic and industry sectors, including our collaborator Andreas Lange, from the Berlin Computerspiele Museum.\u00a0 There&#8217;s even a concert dedicated to the great composers in the history of video game music.\u00a0 Team members, Melanie Swalwell and Helen Stuckey, are also presenting papers on their games historical research.\u00a0 The <a title=\"Programme\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history-of-games.com\/program\/\" target=\"_blank\">programme <\/a>is up, so take a look!<\/p>\n<p>Update: Unfortunately, Huhtamo couldn&#8217;t make it, and Melanie Swalwell was invited to keynote.\u00a0 Her full paper is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.edu\/4803227\/Turning_Historical_Fragments_into_a_unique_experience_with_the_past_Reflections_on_conducting_writing_and_experiencing_games_history\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first international game history conference is happening in Montreal in just over a week&#8217;s time.\u00a0 The History of Games conference features keynotes from Stephen Kline, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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