UCLA Hosts Events Focused on Girls and Gaming - Live Streaming Available
May 3, 2006 06:29 PM

In the advent of this year's E3 Expo, on May 8-9 UCLA will host two events focusing on the participation of girls and women in game design and play.

The events, headed by Yasmin Kafai, associate professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, include discussions with a variety of academics and gaming experts from Europe, Asia and North America who will participate in:

"Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender, Games and Computing" - a workshop examining issues concerning girls and women and computer games.
9:30-4:30 PDT Monday, May 8 at 3340 Moore Hall on the UCLA campus.

"Girls ’n’ Games" - a conference focused on where girls and women are in games and what they want.
2:30–6:00 PDT Tuesday, May 9 at the Experimental Digital Arts (EDA) space in the North Kinross Building, Suite 104, 1100 Kinross Blvd.
**Conference will be streamed live at: http://www.eda.ucla.edu

We got in touch with Kafai to find out more about these events and what she hopes to accomplish. View discussion here

For full event details visit: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~conferences/index.htm