posted by user: mborshuk || 2219 views || tracked by 1 users: [display]

TTUHumCtr 2019 : PLAY Conference in the Humanities (Humanities Center at Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas)

FacebookTwitterLinkedInGoogle

Link: http://humanitiescenter.ttu.edu
 
When Apr 13, 2019 - Apr 13, 2019
Where Lubbock, Texas
Submission Deadline Dec 15, 2018
Categories    humanities   interdisciplinary   theory   digital humanities
 

Call For Papers

“PLAY” Conference
Texas Tech University
April 13, 2019

The Humanities Center at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas) is happy to announce a call for papers for our second Annual Conference in the Humanities, to be held in Lubbock on April 13, 2019. The conference topic each year aligns with the Center's annual theme, which for 2018-2019 is "PLAY.” We are interested in the interdisciplinary study of play in myriad forms and in any of the following categories: art, culture, literature, music, dance, games, sports, politics, technology, and education. This list is open-ended and, in the spirit of play, we are open to proposals that catch us by intellectual surprise.

The Center’s vision of the humanities is a broad one and we encourage presentations and panels that rethink disciplinary boundaries and traditional academic research. That said, we are also comprehensive in our historical scope. How might a study of Pindar’s victory odes in 5th century B.C. work in conversation with a look at end zone celebrations in professional football? How is improvisation in theater comparable to the work of a jazz saxophonist? Where might games—from Tic-Tac-Toe to Battleship to Red Dead Redemption II—fit into any of these discussions? The conference aims to bring together an international group of scholars in order to consider all the different manners that humans play and what those manners mean.

The TTU Humanities Center welcomes abstracts for individual papers as well as proposals for fully formed panels that address these or other related issues. Potential speakers should send an abstract of 300 words and a brief CV (no more than 2 pages) highlighting work relevant to the topic at hand. Scholars proposing a panel should provide an abstract of no more than 500 words and include a list of contributors (with the titles of their papers) as well as brief CVs (no more than 2 pages) for each. Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted to humanitiescenter@ttu.edu by December 15, 2018 with all documents contained in a single PDF. In the subject line of your submission, please use the format "PLAY Conference/YOUR NAME/YOUR PROPOSAL or ABSTRACT TITLE" (e.g., PLAY Conference/Smith/Improvisation in Comedy) as the subject line in your email. We will make decisions as soon as possible after that in order to ensure sufficient time for participants to make travel arrangements.

Related Resources

HUSO 2025   7th Canadian International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences 2025
GRACLS Conference 2025   The University of Texas at Austin - Call for Papers: 20th Annual GRACLS Conference
Jornal of Games and Social Impact 4(1) 2025   Inquiring the Intersection of Game and Play through Contemporary Artistic Practices
ICOCT 2025   2025 5th International Conference on Optics and Communication Technology-EI Compendex/Scopus
CSSE 2025   3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering
Migrating Minds 4 (1), 2026   Migrating Minds. Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism -- Call for papers for Vol. 4, Issue 1, Spring 2026
ICDMap 2026   ICDMap'2026 - International Conference on Dialect Mapping
FREEDOM 2025   FREEDOM AND AUTHENTICITY - 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference (Online)
CVMI-CVPR 2025   10th IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis (CVMI) @ CVPR 2025
SSHRA 2025   Social Science & Humanities Research Association International Conference, 15-16 December, Bangkok