The IT University of Copenhagen will be offering a PhD course entitled, "Acting together on technological playing fields: Computer games, e-sports, and team play" from May 26-28. The course will focus on exploring the artefacts, structures, practices and cultures of team-based computer games through a sociology of games and sports. Students will share their research on the subject and discuss/engage with a collection of literatures and questions related to team games with the purpose of gaining some analytical and methodological tools to critically think with throughout the remainder of their research. The course will be taught of several scholars working specifically in the area of team play, e-sports, and the sociology of sports. T.L. Taylor (IT University of Copenhagen) Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson (University of Exeter) - "Lived-body experiences of sport and games: Phenomenological perspectives" Henry Lowood (Stanford University) - "Players, athletes, and art" Garry Whannel (University of Bedfordshire) - "Look Out! Some problems of method and theory for Screen Studies and Games Studies" Belinda Wheaton (University of Brighton) - "Understanding alternative/extreme/lifestyle sport cultures: theoretical and methodological considerations" We are also very excited to have built into the course a quite unique final day (May 28) consisting of a free public workshop on pro-gaming with an exciting group of e-sports professionals (http://esportseuropeanedition.wordpress.com/). Full details about the course can be found at http://www1.itu.dk/sw132466.asp, including info on how to apply. Please feel free to distribute widely and drop a line with any questions. Look forward to seeing some of you in Copenhagen! TL -- _____________________________________________ T.L. Taylor, Associate Professor Center for Computer Games Research IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark +45 7218 5035 (tele) / +45 7218 5001 (fax) tltaylor@itu.dk / http://www.tltaylor.com