North American Conference on Video Game Music

14-15 janvier 2017, Austin (Texas)
Deadline: October 1, 2016
Conference Website: vgmconference.weebly.com
Conference Venue: University of Texas at Austin

Scholars are invited to submit proposals for the fourth North American Conference on Video Game Music, which will take place January 14–15, 2017 at the University of Texas at Austin. The conference organizing and program committee is composed of Jim Buhler (organizer, UT Austin), Neil Lerner (Davidson College), William Gibbons (TCU), Steven Reale (Youngstown State University), Karen Cook (University of Hartford), and Elizabeth Medina-Gray (Ithaca College).

The keynote speaker for this year's conference will be announced as soon as possible.

We are soliciting proposals for presentations on any aspect of music in games, including, but not limited to:

• The history of music in video games
• Approaches to analyzing game music
• Intersections of game music and other media (film, TV, etc.)
• Critical and/or hermeneutic approaches to game music
• Case studies of particular games
• Game music and pedagogy
• Ethnographic approaches to game music

Additional information regarding the conference:

• Papers will be twenty minutes in length, with an additional ten minutes for discussion.
• Proposals are limited to 250 words, and should include the title of the paper, but should otherwise include no identifying information, including metadata.
• In the body of an e-mail, include your name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), contact information, and the title of your paper.
• Email proposals to vgmconference AT mail.com by October 1, 2016. Successful candidates will be notified on or around November 1, 2016.

For further information, please feel free to contact Jim Buhler (jbuhler AT utexas DOT edu), to direct questions to the conference email address (vgmconference AT mail DOT com), or visit the conference website at https://vgmconference.weebly.com/.