Christopher Helland

A view of the crowd of over 45,000 attending the first day of HHDL's teachings at the Shewatsel Teaching ground in the Himalayan region of Leh, Ladakh, India on July 21, 2023. Photo by Tenzin Choejor

The @nmrdcnetwork is delighted to announce the publication of Thinking Tools in #AI, #Religion & #Culture, Dr. Heidi Campbell and Pauline Hope Cheong's newest eBook, an edited collection of female scholars' voices on our future with AI. Download it at tinyurl.com/3pejtnd8!

Exciting news for religious studies scholars! This year's AAR Annual Meeting will take place in San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 18-21. Don't miss the @IASGAR1 panel analyzing the moral ambiguities presented in the Last of Us franchise, comparing the TV show and video game formats!

CFP: For those interested in themes of Religion and Apocalypticism in Television and Video Games popularcultureandtheology.com/2023/04/10/cal…

Interesting CfP for the Post Graduate Research Conference!

NEW podcast! Introducing @SORJournal's incoming editor, @TitusHjelm! academic.oup.com/socrel/pages/p…

@McCutcheonSays At least you've got your sweater

That first morning, waking up in the conference hotel, a little jet lagged, no coffeemaker and you didn't think to bring a granola bar with you. #SBLAAR2022 #naasr2022

Thrilled to be under contract with @routledgebooks for the first ever textbook on religion and videogaming!

Posting for a job in Games and Interactive Media! I'm guessing that would be a fun job to have! careers.marist.edu/cw/en-us/job/4…

The CfP of our Regular Issue is out now - Submit! 📲 #cfp #gamevironments #studies #journal

The first Finnish PhD thesis on religion in digital games (to be defended in early Nov @ Helsinki).

@Liz_Fitting take it easy and get well! @Liz_Fitting

Capturing the mood of Halifax!

CFP for 2023 ISMRC conference in Bochum, Germany in August 2023 is now out! The conference theme is “Metaphor & Misinformation: Religion in Media-Driven Worlds”. Please consider submitting a paper and spreading the word! ismrc.org/wp-content/upl…

The article deals with an important and so far not sufficiently discussed topic in research: the preservation of games and gaming!

The Pope’s AI adviser on ensuring algorithms respect human dignity newscientist.com/article/mg2553…

No one can afford to disregard compassion, affection, and so on. Why? Because kindness and compassion are the main qualities necessary in life. A good mind, enriched by love and compassion, is essential for human beings.

Anyone interested in a panel on video gaming and nationalism?! Contact us and btw. become a member of IASGAR!

Hungry for more game studies lit? Up next on our #SummerReadingList is @SorayaMurray's excellent "On Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space"! It links game studies, visual and cultural studies in new and interesting ways

I‘m game😏😎