{"id":9243,"date":"2025-10-22T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:57:07","slug":"the-waseda-game-lab-has-shared-details-of-the-following-talk-series-which-is-open-to-all-students-and-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/news\/2025\/10\/22\/9243\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waseda Game Lab has shared details of the following talk series, which is open to all students and faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"x_x_elementToProof\">\n<div><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">We are delighted to announce our upcoming lecture series *&#8221;New<br \/>\nDirections in Game Studies in\/of Japan&#8221;*, which explores emerging<br \/>\nperspectives in the study of Japanese games and game cultures.<\/span><\/span>Japanese video games have long held a place in game studies as objects<br \/>\nof analysis and research. While early research on such games examined<br \/>\nhow Japanese culture is represented through video games, recent work has<br \/>\nshifted toward studying the spaces, economies, and histories of Japan as<br \/>\nprocessed through game texts and paratexts, screens and interfaces, or<br \/>\nnodes and platforms. This research asks complex questions about Japan\u2019s<br \/>\nplace within game studies, as well as about the institutions, archives,<br \/>\nand methods for conducting research on games in and of Japan.This speaker series brings together three accomplished scholars of games<br \/>\nand new media, each presenting their research on the growing field of<br \/>\ngame studies within Japan, game representations of Asia produced in<br \/>\nJapan, and circuits of game production inside and outside Japan. Each<br \/>\ntalk will be followed by a Q&amp;A session.*Lecture 1*<\/p>\n<p>Title: The Importance of Player Space for Game Studies<br \/>\nSpeaker: Hiroshi Yoshida (Tokyo University)<br \/>\nDate: October 23, 2025<br \/>\nTime: 17:15\u201318:30<br \/>\nVenue: Waseda University, Main Campus, Building 11, Room 11-802<\/p>\n<p>*Lecture 2*<\/p>\n<p>Title: Lost in a JPEG Dungeon: Kowloon&#8217;s Gate, Digital Rendering, and<br \/>\nRegional Orientalism in 1990s Japanese Video Games<br \/>\nSpeaker: Daniel Johnson (College of William and Mary)<br \/>\nDate: November 6, 2025<br \/>\nTime: 17:15\u201318:30<br \/>\nVenue: Waseda University, Main Campus, Building 11, Room 11-802<\/p>\n<p>*Lecture 3*<\/p>\n<p>Title: Unboxing Japanese Videogames: An Argument for Nuance<br \/>\nSpeaker: Martin Roth (Ritsumeikan University)<br \/>\nDate: November 18, 2025<br \/>\nTime: 17:15\u201318:30<br \/>\nVenue: Waseda University, Main Campus, Building 11, Room 11-802<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_x_elementToProof\">Contact: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim &amp; Joachim Scharloth<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/gamelab.w.waseda.jp\/labindex.html\">Waseda GameLab<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce our upcoming lecture series *&#8221;New Directions in Game Studies in\/of Japan&#038;#8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[82,94,73,24,26,28],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-news","tag-events-en","tag-general-en","tag-research-en","tag-events","tag-general","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9250,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions\/9250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsiccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}