[xmca] Re: CFP: Play: Towards a Critical Concept

Et-- You must be joking! right?
:-)
miike

On Nov 20, 2007 4:06 PM, Etienne Pelaprat <pelaprat@gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: arubadom@uci.edu <arubadom@uci.edu>
> Date: Nov 20, 2007 3:47 PM
> Subject: CFP: Play: Towards a Critical Concept
> To: sectcartographies@googlegroups.com
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> Please distribute widely.
>
> The graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature at UCI
> invite submissions for its annual conference.
>
> Play: Towards a Critical Concept
>
> University of California, Irvine
> April 3-4, 2008
>
> Because play is found undecideably split between the boundary of
> seriousness and unseriousness, it thus remains for us an ambiguous
> concept. It is often associated with frivolity, waste, and childishness,
> and in this way becomes a dismissed or marginalized concept. At the same
> time, however, it has also been intimately connected with creativity,
> diplomacy, and the sacred. We ask to what extent play can become a
> critical point of engagement in the fields of critical theory, literary
> studies, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and rhetoric.
> In what ways can play intersect, intervene, and inform the critique of
> politics, culture, and society?
>
> Possible topics include but are not limited to:
>
> - commodification of play (uses and abuses of free time)
> - play of the signifier
> -child's play
> -play as resistance
> -leisure (leisure time, social activity)
> -institutionalized play (professional sports, war games and training,
> education)
> - games (board games, social games, head games, games of chance, games of
> the everyday)
> - play and simulation (representation, legitimation, ritual, magic)
> -serious play
> -play and the body
> -foreplay
> -power plays (from coup d'etat to corporate takeover)
> -play as fantasy and imagination
> -play and politics/diplomacy
> -play of boundaries
> -rules and laws
> -language games (translation, play between languages)
> -animal play
> -play and survival
> -the history of play
> -the philosophy of play
> -ecology of games
> -mapping play
> - play as socialization (object relations, psychic and material processes)
> - toys, dolls, automata
>
> The deadline for the submission of 250-word abstract is January 15, 2008.
> Presentations are to be 20 minutes in length. Send proposals to
> playatuci@gmail.com. Please include your name, email address, institution
> and phone number with the abstract.
>
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