{"id":25662,"date":"2016-11-27T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T23:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=25662"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:41:52","slug":"keywords-video-game-studies-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/keywords-video-game-studies-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Keywords for Video Game Studies Speaker Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/keywords-video-game-studies-speaker-series\/keywords_uo_diversity_depass\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25663\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25663\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/keywords_uo_diversity_depass.gif\" alt=\"keywords_uo_diversity_depass\" width=\"281\" height=\"359\"><\/a>EMU 119<br \/>\nUniversity of Oregon<\/p>\n<h4>\u201cWhy Diversity and Intentional Inclusion Is Needed in Our Games\u201d<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Tanya DePass<\/p>\n<p>A brief talk followed by Q&amp;A on why diversity and inclusion in video games and tabletop is not just important but vital to keeping the mediums alive.&nbsp; From Street Fighter to Mafia III, games are slowly getting better about who\u2019s in the lead, who lives, who dies, and who\u2019s story is told, but it\u2019s still moving at a snails pace.&nbsp; The history of why #INeedDiverseGames, where it started and where it\u2019s going will be threaded throughout the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit foundation based in Chicago, that is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by the LGBTQIA Scholars Academic Residence Community, LGBT Education and Support Services, UO Housing, and the UO Residence Hall Association.&nbsp; Series also sponsored by Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, English, Cinema Studies, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Environmental Studies, the New Media and Culture Certificate program, and UO Think.Play.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Info at: http:\/\/wgs.uoregon.edu\/category\/events\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMU 119 University of Oregon \u201cWhy Diversity and Intentional Inclusion Is Needed in Our Games\u201d Speaker: Tanya DePass A brief talk followed by Q&amp;A on why diversity and inclusion in video games and tabletop is not just important but vital&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/keywords-video-game-studies-speaker-series\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-issues","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32975,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662\/revisions\/32975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}