Call for Papers:
Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area
44th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference
February 22-25, 2023
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
http://www.southwestpca.org
Submission deadline: October 31, 2022
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.
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’s database at
http://register.southwestpca.org/southwestpca
For details on using the submission database and on the application process in general, please see the Proposal Submission FAQs and Tips page at
http://southwestpca.org/conference/faqs-and-tips/
Individual proposals for 15-minute papers must include an abstract of approximately 200-500 Words and a brief bio in the body of the proposal form.
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, 2022.
SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a variety of categories.
Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January 1, 2023. SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students. For more information, visit
http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/
Registration and travel information for the conference will be available at
http://southwestpca.org/conference/conference-registration-information/
For 2023, the conference will be held at a new venue, the Marriott Albuquerque (2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110).
In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy at http://journaldialogue.org/
AREA
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@arizona.edu)
- Research Coordinator: Jennifer deWinter (dewinter1@gmail.com)
- Social Media Coordinator: Michael Anthony DeAnda (madeanda@gmail.com)
- Special Events Coordinator: Carly Kocurek (ckocurek@iit.edu)
- Graduate Student Mentor: Chris Hanson (cphanson@syr.edu)
- Twitter: @GSCPP