The University of South Carolina's Center for Digital Humanities encourages participants to join us for a three-week Humanities Gaming Institute, June 7-25, 2010.

With generous funding from the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities, our Humanities Gaming Institute invites teachers and researchers, faculty and advanced graduate students, to cooperate in the study and development of serious games for teaching and research in the humanities.

Institute participants will be able to join a community of developers, teachers, and researchers, with parallel sessions and activities exploring game development, theoretical approaches to gaming, and pedagogical applications. To build a diverse cohort of participants, we especially invite applicants engaged in large-scale projects, geographically dispersed teams, and those with limited access to digital humanities resources at their home institutions. We are particularly interested in teams whose members work in complementary aspects of technical development, pedagogical implementation, and critical approaches to gaming.

Beyond the rich social milieu of the intensive three-week institute, HGI will extend beyond the summer with a year of sustained discussions, technical support, intellectual collaboration, and collective infrastructure. Funding is available to support twenty fellowships for individuals and/or teams developing or building games in the humanities. Participants at the institute will receive a stipend to defray costs associated with attendance, a warm and welcoming environment at the institute, and assistance with housing at the university or at one of the several hotels within easy walking distance.

We invite participants from across the human-centered disciplines to apply. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2010, with decisions returned by March 15, 2010.

To participate, please compile a pdf file that includes:

• a short (2 pp maximum) statement outlining your interest in HGI. Please include a concise description of the gaming project, the current status of any ongoing development work, an assessment of the available institutional support for your project, and any conceptual or technical challenges you envision;
• a 2-page CV for each team participant;
• letter(s) of support or endorsement, if desired.

All documents should be compiled into one PDF file and sent to humanitiesgaming@gmail.com