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Game Studies Now, Next, North East - DUGS symposium

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26 September 2025 - 26 September 2025

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Room TLC101, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LS

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Join us for this symposium with Durham University's Games Studies (DUGS) network, in collaboration with the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) and the Durham Centre for Research into Inner Experience (CRIE)! This full day event will showcase the diversity of games- and gaming-related projects and people across the institution, representatives in games from the other four NE universities, plus people in the policy and innovation space, and regional developers.

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Games Studies: Now, Next, Northeast

Join us for this exciting event! 

Outline Programme

10.00-10.15 Registration

10.15-11.00 State of Play

Game Studies at Durham so far

11.00-12.30 Loading Games

Lightning talks to showcase research, teaching, and scholarship in games across Durham

13.30-14.30 Level Up

What's happening in games in the North East and how can we network together; featuring colleagues from Sunderland, Teesside, Newcastle and Northumbria plus industry and policy

14.45-16.00 Save Game

Potential research projects, funding, close

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All welcome to attend! 

We look forward to you joining us on 26th September!

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Pricing

Fully funded (no cost to participants)