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[Commlist] CFP - Game Studies, Culture, Play & Practice Area (2025 SWPACA Conference)
Mon Sep 09 16:21:56 GMT 2024
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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