RJ2019: Replaying Japan 2019: 7th International Japan Game Studies Conference Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus Kyoto, Japan, August 9-11, 2019 |
Conference website | http://replaying.jp/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rj2019 |
Submission deadline | March 15, 2019 |
Deadline extended
Abstract Submission Deadline extended. New deadline is March 15th.
Replaying Japan
Replaying Japan 2019: The 7th International Japan Game Studies Conference
Replaying Japan (International Japan Game Studies Conference) is the conference organized by Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies in collaboration with Leipzig University, the University of Alberta, Bath Spa University, Seijoh University and DiGRA Japan. This conference, the seventh collaboratively organized event, focuses broadly on Japanese game culture, education, and industry. It aims to bring together a wide range of researchers and creators from many different countries to present and exchange their work.
We invite researchers and students to submit paper proposals relating to Japanese game cultures games, videogames and education, and the Japanese game industry from the perspectives of humanities, social sciences, business, or education.
Conference theme — Japanese Games: Past, Present and Future
Since 2012, the Replaying Japan conference series hosted researchers from various fields conducting research on “Japanese Game”. However, for the upcoming edition of the conference, we would like to address a fundamental question.
What are “Japanese games”?
For example, when we talk about our first play experience of “Super
Mario Bros.” or “Pokémon” with researchers all over the world, what we mention is a mysterious “shared experience” rather than the “Japaneseness” of these games.
In other words, these games have surpassed domestic circumstances and
cultural differences to deliver common surprises and
excitement to players all over the world. This universal nature
can be said to be the specificity of games as media.
In this conference held in Kyoto this summer, let us again re-think the past and present of “Japanese Game” and examine “Japanese games” and the future of research on the subject.
Submission Guideline
All papers must be original. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers or Panel : Please send anonymized abstracts of no more than 500 words in English or Japanese. Figures, tables and references, which do not count towards the 500 words, may be included on a second page.
- Proposals in Japanese are most welcome!
- 日本語での発表要旨も受け付けます。日本語の発表要旨はrcgs[a]st.ritsumei.ac.jpにご送付ください
- 詳しくはRCGSのウェブサイトをご覧ください
Committees
Organizer
- Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies, Ritsumeikan University
Co-Organizers
- University of Alberta
- Leipzig University
- Bath Spa University
- Seijoh University
- DiGRA Japan
Conference Co-Chairs
- Akinori NAKAMURA, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
- Martin ROTH, Institute of East Asian Studies / Japanese Studies, Leipzig University
- Martin PICARD, Institute of East Asian Studies / Japanese Studies, Leipzig University
- Mitsuyuki INABA, College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University
- James NEWMAN, Bath Spa University
- Geoffrey ROCKWELL, Philosophy and Humanities Computing, University of Alberta
- Rachael HUTCHINSON, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Delaware
Programme Committee
- Keiji AMANO (Programme Committee Chair), Faculty of Business Administration, Seijoh University
- Hiroshi YOSHIDA (Local Commitee Chair), Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
- Koichi HOSOI, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
- Jérémie PELLETIER-GAGNON, Comparative Literature and Humanities Computing, University of Alberta
- Tsugumi (Mimi) OKABE, Comparative Literature and Humanities Computing, University of Alberta
- Kazufumi FUKUDA, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
- Akito INOUE, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
- Shuji WATANABE, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
Venue
The conference will be held in Ritsumeikan University, Kinugasa Campus. Soshi-kan, Zonshin-kan and Igaku-kan
Contact
Replaying Japan (replayingjapan[a]gmail.com)