Call for Proposals/Panelists Games for Change 2009

Saw this on my listserve so thought I'd spread the word to the RezEd crowd as I'm doing my own testing within Elf Island.com soon (fingers crossed) Best, Amy (www.shapingyouth.org)

"If you are interested in submitting a proposal for a panel at 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@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.

++++++++++++

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

Suzanne Seggerman
President, Co-founder
Games for Change
http://www.gamesforchange.org
cell: 917.478.4772