November 4th 2009, the University of Manchester to register, email gareth.j.crabtree@student.manchester.ac.uk Conference Programme 9:00 - 9:30: Registration (University Place 2.19) 9:30 - 10:15: Keynote - Graeme Kirkpatrick, University of Manchester (University Place 1.219) 10:15 - 10:30: Coffee break (University Place Café) 10:30 - 11:30: Play and Games - Chair Gareth Crabtree (University Place 1.219) Sven Schmalfuß: Wrestling with the God of War. Performative Masculinity. Paul Brown: A Love of Hyrule Sunsets: The Legend of Zelda and its Players. 11:30 - 11:45: Coffee break (University Place Café) 11:45 - 12:45: Theoretical Perspectives - Chair Gareth Crabtree (University Place 1.219) Ashley Brown: Huizinga’s concept of a ‘magic circle’ of gaming applied to a massive multiplayer context. Dan Dixon: Apollo and Dionysus at Play. 1:00 - 2:00: Lunch (The Ducie Arms) 2:00 - 3:00: Literary Representations - Chair Elizabeth Burgess (University Place 1.219) Andrew Henlich: The Shadows of History: The Narrative of Play(ing) in William Kentridge’s Black Box/Chambre Noir. Irene Huhulea: Developing Identity through Play in Internet Fan Communities. 3:00 - 3:15: Coffee break (University Place Café) 3:15 - 4:45: Mapping and Online Worlds - Chair Elizabeth Burgess (University Place 1.219) Sybille Lammes: Playing the Map: Digital Cartographies and the Making of Stories. Larne Juel Laessen : A tentative study of World of Warcraft’s Addictiveness. Esther MacCallum-Stewart: The Retired Pirates - How Groups Reconfigure Games Worlds, and How Designers Let Them. 5:00 - 6:00 Wine Reception (University Place 2.19) The reception will be followed by dinner in Manchester city centre.