I’ve written up/added all my notes for the Women in Games, Day 1, which are usually brief – would be better with slides (or at least some of my pictures of slides), which might be available later, but in any case I’ll upload my pictures to the articles when I’m back home. Day 2 and 3 will come as I write them up and my laptop battery lasts!
Day 1 – September 10th
- KEYNOTE – Sara de Freitas – Director of Research at the Serious Games Institute at the University of Coventry
- “Hunting for Fun – The Serious Games Challenge” Mary Matthews, Strategy and Business Development Director, TruSim (Blitz)
- “Diagetic Media’ – Beyond First-Person Shooters” Ana Kronschnabl, CEO, FluffyLogic
- PANEL – “Getting down with the kids!” Chair : Divinia Knowles, Head Of Operations and Financial Controller, Mind Candy Ltd. Panelists : Toby Barnes, Managing Director, Pixel Lab; Louise Ridgeway, Animation Supervisor, Rare Ltd; Rachel Bardill, Interactive Executive, CBBC
- WORKSHOP – “The Pink Wink Workshop” – Fiona French, Course Leader BSc Computer Games, Associate Director; and Barbara Zambrini, Producer : Gamelab London, London Metropolitan University
- “Women in Games: an Iranian Perspective” Ms Faranak Fotouhi-Ghazvini, PhD student, Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, School of Informatics, University of Bradford
- “Playing with Constrained Agency: Video Games and the Question of “Choice”” – Juliette M. Ludeker, PhD Student, Rhetoric and Composition, English Dept, Purdue University and Wendy K.Z. Anderson Doctoral Candidate, Rhetorical and New Media Studies, Humanities Dept, Michigan Technological University
- “Play in between: Women player identifies and the practice of skin making” Hanna Wirman, PhD Student, University of the West of England
- “Mama Ludens: Interviews with women who play” – Jessica Enevold, Visiting Assistant Professor, IT University of Copenhagen; Charlotte Hagström, Assistant Professor, Lund University and Espen Aarseth, Associate Professor, IT university of Copenhagen
- KEYNOTE – “Development and Play – Do Women do it differently?” Paulina Bozek, Executive Producer, SingStar, Sony