RightsTalk Invitation: Human Rights and Video Games

You’re invited to the Australian Human Rights Commission for a lively panel discussion on human rights and video games. This talk will canvass hot topics such as racial stereotyping and the depiction of women in video games, the associations made between games and violence, and bullying in online gaming. The panel will also look at the positive use of video games to promote human rights, and the role of young people and women in the gaming industry and community.

Chair: Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission

Speakers include:

 • Katie Williams - freelance games journalist and critic who has written for PC Gamer, PC PowerPlay, GameSpy, IGN, Hyper magazine, TouchArcade, Kotaku Australia, Games.on.net, Atomic, and WarCry. Katie is the newly appointed director of the Freeplay Independent Games Festival taking place in Melbourne this September. She blogs at www.alivetinyworld.com

• Brendan Keogh - videogame critic and PhD candidate at RMIT University, Melbourne. Brendan has written for Edge, Hyper, The New Statesman, The Conversation, and Polygon.

• Dr Christopher Moore - gamer and lecturer in Media and Communication at Deakin University, Melbourne. His research interests include the appropriative practices of gamer subcultures.

 • Dr Melissa de Zwart – Associate Professor, Adelaide Law School, and a Member of the Classification Review Board (Cth). She has published widely on matters affecting the regulation of the online environment, including copyright, freedom of expression, virtual worlds, social networking and contractual communities.

Date: Thursday, 13 June 2013 Time: 5.30pm – 7.00pm
Location: Australian Human Rights Commission Level 3, 175 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
RSVP: please register here http://rightstalkhumanrightsandvideogames.eventbrite.com

This session is free and spaces are limited to 100 attendees. For more information on the Commission’s RightsTalks program go to http://www.humanrights.gov.au/get-involved/rightstalk