[game_edu] Games for Change Festival call for proposals

[Alex - Games]

Hello all,

If you are interested in submitting a panel proposal for the 2009  
Games for Change Festival (http://www.gamesforchange.org/fest2009)  
which takes place May 27 - 29 at Parsons the New School for Design in  
NYC, please see below for guidelines.

We are accepting these proposals through February 17th.  In order to  
be considered, please email our event manager Maren Perry at events at gamesforchange.org 
  with the following:

1. Proposed title of session
2. Proposed length of session
3. Name, phone and email of primary contact for this proposal
4. Names and bios of panelists and moderator
5. Brief description of session
6. Three Take-aways

Please see other festival years to get a sense of the kinds of  
programming we present.

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And here's an overview of this year's festival:

The 2009 Games for Change Festival is happy to announce the opening  
keynote is author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas  
Kristof of the New York Times.

Other featured speakers include:
James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Chair in Literacy Studies  
at Arizona State University
Seth Scheisel, New York Times game critic
Joseph Kahne, Dean of the School of Education  at Mills College and co- 
author of the Pew study on games and civics
Tracy Fullerton, Director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab &  
author of Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Designing  
Innovative Games
Eric Zimmerman, CEO of Gamelab and co-author of Rules of Play
Mary Flanagan, Director of the Tiltfactor Lab
Ian Bogost, CEO of Persuasive Games and author of Unit Operations: An  
Approach to Videogame Criticism
Heather Chaplin, freelance journalist (NPR, New York Times) and author  
of Smart Bomb
Henry Jenkins, the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies  
Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities.

Also, back by popular demand is the 101 Workshop on May 27 (under  
separate registration and open to all.) And this year we'll be  
featuring the first-ever Newsgame Award at the Expo Night on May 28th,  
sponsored by the Knight Foundation.  And as always, we'll have expert  
panels, provocative lunch discussions, and ample networking  
opportunities.

For more information, please see the festival web site: http://gamesforchange.org/fest2009

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Alex Quinn,
Executive Director, Games for Change
alex at gamesforchange.org
www.gamesforchange.org




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