[Commlist] Conference CFP - 2020 SWPACA Conference (Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area)

Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area

41st Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) 
Conference

February 19-22, 2020

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org <http://www.southwestpca.org/>

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2019


The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area invites papers, 
panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their 
study and development. Proposals are welcome from any and all scholars 
(including graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, 
tenure-track, and emeritus faculty) and practitioners (developers, 
artists, archivists, and so forth). Unusual formats, technologies, and 
the like are encouraged.

- PROPOSAL SUBMISSION -

Possible topics include (but are in no way limited to):

Advertising (both in-game and out)

Archiving and artifactual preservation

ARGs

Design and development

Economic and industrial histories and studies

Educational games and their pedagogies

E-Sports and competitive gaming

Fan studies

Foreign language games and culture

Game art/game-based art (including game sound)

Game development education

Game engines and entertainment

Game genres/types

Game streaming

Games and health

Gender and sexual identity

Haptics and interface studies

Hardware/platforms

Histories of games

Industry studies

International/non-US game studies

Localization

Mobile gaming

MOGs, MMOGs, and other forms of online/networked gaming

Performance

Pornographic games

Religion and games

Representations of race and class

Representations of space and place

The rhetoric of games and game systems

Serious games

Table-top games and gaming

Technological, aesthetic, economic, and ideological convergence

Theories of play

Transmedia and games

All proposals must be submitted through the Conference Management System 
at<http://conference2018.southwestpca.org/>http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca(see 
http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/for submission FAQs and 
Tips).

SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a 
variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due 
January 1, 2020. For more information, visit 
http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/

Registration and travel information for the conference is available 
at<http://southwestpca.org/conference/registration/>http://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/


In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, 
scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular 
Culture and Pedagogy, athttp://journaldialogue.org/


- AREA -

The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area is international in 
scope and emphasizes diversity, an openness to innovative approaches and 
presentations, and the energetic practice of post-conference 
collaboration and publication. The Area was established in 2005 as a 
division of the Computer Culture Area, and became a standalone area in 
2010. In addition to organizing conference panels, roundtables, and 
workshops, the Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area offers 
formal and informal mentoring, organizes outings, and hosts evening 
social events.

- Chair: Judd Ruggill ((jruggill /at/ email.arizona.edu) 
<mailto:(jruggill /at/ email.arizona.edu)>)

- Research Coordinator: Jennifer deWinter ((jdewinter /at/ wpi.edu) 
<mailto:(jdewinter /at/ wpi.edu)>)

- Social Media Coordinator: Michael Anthony DeAnda ((madeanda /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(madeanda /at/ gmail.com)>)

- Special Events Coordinator: Ryan Moeller ((rylish.moeller /at/ usu.edu) 
<mailto:(rylish.moeller /at/ usu.edu)>)

- Graduate Student Mentor: Chris Hanson ((cphanson /at/ syr.edu) 
<mailto:(cphanson /at/ syr.edu)>)

- Twitter: @GSCPP

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