Playing by the Rules - The Cultural Policy Challenges of Video Games:
University of Chicago, October 2001. Descriptions of panels, bios
and links for numerous speakers, a lot of links to other game
related sites, including game policy and research.
http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/
Computer Games and Digital Cultures:
Tampere, Finland. 6-8 June 2002. Aesthetic, narrative and structural
issues as well as bridging academia and industry. Programme and
general conference information.
http://www.uta.fi/cgdc/
Game On 2002:
London, UK. 27-28 November 2002. Third International Conference on
Intelligent Games and Simulation. Announcement and call for papers.
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1822/gameon.htm#gameon2002
Board Games in Academia IV:
Fribourg, Switzerland. 17-21 April 2002. Yearly colloquium.
Programme and abstracts.
http://www.unifr.ch/psycho/pgp/boardgames/
Text-Based Virtual Reality:
Transcript of a seminar held at Meridian MOO in 1994.
http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~cynthiah/lingua_archive/meridian-moo-seminar.txt
Computer and Video Games Come of Age:
National conference held at MIT in 2000. Full transcripts of
sessions on games as interactive storytelling, aesthetics, and game
design.
http://web.mit.edu/cms/games
Computers and Games 2002 (CG'02):
Edmonton, Canada. 25-27 July 2002. International conference with
emphasis on research and development in use of artificial
intelligence in games.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/cg2002/
Talbot, Ben: "Compete, Command and Conquer":
A trip report from the International Games Cultures Conference in
Bristol, UK, 29 June-1 July 2001.
http://www.cult-media.com/issue2/CMRtalb.htm
Challenge of Computer Games:
Lotz, Poland. 25-27 August 2002. Abstracts, programme, booking,
general information about the conference and locality.
http://www.uni.lodz.pl/kmk/
COSIGN 2001:
Conference on computational semiotics for games and new media, held
in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Full proceedings downloadable in PDF
format.
http://www.kinonet.com/conferences/cosign2001/
Games Developers Conference Europe 2002:
Held in London, 27-29 August. Includes an Academic Day, and the
program as well as practical information is available.
http://www.gdc-europe.com/conference/
International Game Developers' Association: Calendar:
A list of conferences and events of interest to game researchers and
developers. Linked, annotated and chronologically ordered.
http://www.igda.org/Services/Calendar/calendar.htm
COSIGN 2002:
Augsburg, Germany. 2 - 4 September 2002. Computational Semiotics for
Games and New Media: explores how semiotics can be used in creating
and analysing games and new media.
http://www.kinonet.com/conferences/cosign2002/
