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1. CFP - Game Studies, Culture, Play & Practice Area (2027 SWPACA Conference)
(Judd Ruggill)
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(2027 SWPACA Conference)
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Hi all:
This may be of interest to some on the list.
Cheers,
Judd
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Call for Papers
Game Studies, Culture, Play & Practice Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswpaca.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cc.pelletier%40ucl.ac.uk%7Cc267eda1491843ddf82408df023f546e%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C639232143166505638%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=P9uYCqnI34EGmrnb6bVGKzX%2FF6cacyADwPsWgDlRx68%3D&reserved=0
Submissions open: September 1, 2026
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026
Proposals are now being accepted for the 48th annual SWPACA conference. One
of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA
offers nearly 70 subject areas. For a full list of subject areas, area
descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswpaca.org%2Fsubject-areas%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cc.pelletier%40ucl.ac.uk%7Cc267eda1491843ddf82408df023f546e%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C639232143166545154%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wcZAE2DyQNQvle4Y3CTyEdfeLfCtHluVTDEymKYtDvY%3D&reserved=0
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
Artificial Intelligence
Design and development
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@arizona.edu <jruggill@email.arizona.edu>)
- Research Coordinator: Jennifer deWinter (jdewinter@illinoistech.edu)
- Social Media Coordinator: Michael Anthony DeAnda (mdeanda@depaul.edu)
- Special Events Coordinator: Carly Kocurek (ckocurek@illinoistech.edu)
- Graduate Student Mentor: Chris Hanson (cphanson@syr.edu)
All proposals must be submitted through the SWPACA Conference Portal at
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswpaca.org%2Fapp&data=05%7C02%7Cc.pelletier%40ucl.ac.uk%7Cc267eda1491843ddf82408df023f546e%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C639232143166587265%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=I0sGezerZ2%2BWqP0rZZzg2IL0Z%2FVdSvxwLvPPi%2FmF%2B9U%3D&reserved=0
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://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswpaca.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cc.pelletier%40ucl.ac.uk%7Cc267eda1491843ddf82408df023f546e%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C639232143166628009%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yc62xX2ExU8zJ%2B%2BU%2FbUkFmDz54DZe59aA3XbPOewQ7Q%3D&reserved=0
Individual proposals for 15-minute presentations must include an abstract
of approximately 250 words and a brief bio.
For information on how to submit a proposal for a roundtable or a
multi-paper panel, please view
the above FAQs and Resources tab.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2026.
SWPACA offers monetary awards for the best graduate student papers in a
variety of categories. Submissions of accepted, full papers are due January
1, 2026. More details are here:
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswpaca.org%2Fgraduate-student-paper-awards%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cc.pelletier%40ucl.ac.uk%7Cc267eda1491843ddf82408df023f546e%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C639232143166663135%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=v41fCp8LysZvgfZnSkpiFPfetoaYlwexoYmJl42x8eo%3D&reserved=0.
SWPACA also offers travel fellowships for undergraduate and graduate
students as well as contingent faculty:
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswpaca.org%2Ftravel-awards-students-faculty%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cc.pelletier%40ucl.ac.uk%7Cc267eda1491843ddf82408df023f546e%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C639232143166691774%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bTO1AlmM%2FvSo2Ejs5LCv92uPddOKDbGlYKe3tHX6zkA%3D&reserved=0.
Registration and travel information for the conference is available at
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswpaca.org%2Falbuquerque-conference%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cc.pelletier%40ucl.ac.uk%7Cc267eda1491843ddf82408df023f546e%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C639232143166717044%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=b7qX%2F6k5ECJoiWIr4kfOHAf4sVQYCHJOjfcmf%2F0oqAY%3D&reserved=0
In addition, please check out the organization’s peer-reviewed, scholarly
journal, Dialogue: The
Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, at
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.unl.edu%2Fdialogue%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cc.pelletier%40ucl.ac.uk%7Cc267eda1491843ddf82408df023f546e%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C639232143166738334%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4Y6iz5VhTOtXFSApxNfM5%2FUNCVWlU%2B1d4tdCmWLjkpA%3D&reserved=0
If you have any questions about the Game Studies, Culture, Play & Practice
Area, please contact jruggill@arizona.edu. If you have general questions
about the conference, please contact support@swpaca.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 2027
SWPACA Summer Salon, a completely virtual conference to take place in June
2027.
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