[Commlist] CFP - Game Studies, Culture, Play & Practice Area (2025 SWPACA Conference)

Call for Papers


Game Studies, Culture, Play & Practice Area


Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)


46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

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

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024


Proposals are now being accepted for the 46th annual SWPACA conference. 
One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, 
SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple 
panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area 
Chairs, please visit https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/ 
<https://swpaca.org/subject-areas/>


The Game Studies, Culture, Play & 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.


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


The Game Studies, Culture, Play & 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 & Practice Area offers formal 
and informal mentoring, organizes outings, and hosts evening social events.

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

- Research Coordinator: Jennifer deWinter ((dewinter1 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(dewinter1 /at/ gmail.com)>)

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

- Special Events Coordinator: Carly Kocurek ((ckocurek /at/ iit.edu) 
<mailto:(ckocurek /at/ iit.edu)>)

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


All proposals must be submitted through the conference’s database at 
https://swpaca.org/app <https://swpaca.org/app>


For details on using the submission database and on the application 
process in general (including submitting proposals for roundtables and 
preformed panels), please see the FAQS & Resources tab on 
https://swpaca.org/ <https://swpaca.org/>


Individual proposals for 15-minute presentations must include an 
abstract of approximately 250 words anda brief bio.


For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a 
multi-paper panel, please view the above FAQs and Tips page.


The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2024.


SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a 
variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due 
January 1, 2025. More details are here: 
https://swpaca.org/graduate-student-paper-awards/ 
<https://swpaca.org/graduate-student-paper-awards/>


SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate 
students as well as contingent faculty: 
https://swpaca.org/travel-awards-students-faculty/ 
<https://swpaca.org/travel-awards-students-faculty/>


Registration and travel information for the conference is available at

https://swpaca.org/albuquerque-conference/ 
<https://swpaca.org/albuquerque-conference/>


For 2025, we will be returning to the Marriott Albuquerque (2101 
Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110), which has free parking and is 
in close proximity to dining, shopping, and more.


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


If you have any questions about the Game Studies, Culture, Play & 
Practice Area, please contact (jruggill /at/ arizona.edu) 
<mailto:(jruggill /at/ arizona.edu)>. If you have general questions about the 
conference, please contact (support /at/ southwestpca.org) 
<mailto:(support /at/ southwestpca.org)>, and a member of the executive team 
will get back to you.


This will be a fully in-person conference. If you’re looking for an 
online option to present your work, keep an eye out for details about 
the 2025 SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual conference to take 
place in June 2025.

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