CFP: Toys and Games (5/15/05; MPCA, 10/14/05-10/16/05)

Midwest Popular Culture Association 2005 Conference
St. Louis, October 14-16, 2005
www3.niu.edu/mpca/

Toys and Games

The Toys and Games Area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association
welcomes proposals for papers and presentations on toys and games,
including board games, home videogames and video arcade games, card games
and CCGs, RPGs and LARPs, d20, Clix games, strategy games, traditional
games like chess, gaming communities, dolls and action figures, toy
collecting, designer and urban vinyl, licensed film and television toys,
vintage toys, folk toys, advertising premiums and prizes, drinking games,
game shows, party games, cell phone games, and so on . . .

Possible areas of inquiry or exploration include the role of toys and
games in education and socialization, toys as art, toys and games in
literature, film, television, or other media, toys in museums, videogame
theory, the development of new media within the gaming and entertainment
industries, toys and gender, the folklore of gaming, how toys create
meaning.

Deadline for Submissions: May 15, 2005

Please send 150-word abstracts or proposals by e-mail or mail to:
Mark Best
Department of English
CL 526
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
mtb6_at_pitt.edu

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