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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Please join us for two upcoming events (online or in-person) hosted at the University of Waterloo <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Games
Institute</span></a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">1. On Tuesday, 14 November from 11AM-12PM (EST/UTC-4): <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/skins-deep-race-gender-and-nationality-esports" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Skins
Deep: Race, Gender, and Nationality in eSports</span></a>, a lecture by Tara Fickle (Northwestern University). Register for free using <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/guest-lecture-skins-deep-race-gender-and-nationality-in-esports-tickets-745328988067?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">this
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Since the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, Asia has remained the center of the manufacturing of video game hardware (China and Southeast Asia), the center
of game innovation and the birthplace of most game genres (Japan), and the largest reliable resource of consumers (nearly half of game players reside in Asia). Dr. Fickle asks how video games, in being inextricably tethered to Asia, continue to produce new
racializations of Asians around the globe, and the varied impacts games have had on Asian diasporas in North America through forms of digitization, “gamic” worlds, and play itself. The talk will explore a range of relevant contemporary topics in Asian/American
gaming, such as esports, visual novels, racial representations, gender, labor and industry culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">2. On Monday, 20 November from 11AM-12:30PM (EST/UTC-4): <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/emerging-voices-asian-american-game-studies"><span style="color:#1155CC">Emerging
Voices in Asian/American Game Studies</span></a>, featuring Matthew Howard (Loyola University), Sarah Ganzon (Simon Fraser University), and Huan He (Vanderbilt University). Register for free using <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/panel-emerging-voices-in-asianamerican-game-studies-tickets-750731808047?aff=oddtdtcreator"><span style="color:#1155CC">this
Eventbrite link</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">This panel highlights emerging scholars in Asian/American games studies. Panelists will present recent and/or ongoing work, sharing a glimpse of the emerging research
questions animating the field. Topics include He’s analysis of NPC discourse, particularly the phenomena of NPC streaming, as an Asiatic form, Ganzon’s examination of Filipino political activism in digital games that extend public and community spaces, and
Howard’s inquiry on 'region locking' in online games as racial practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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