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CFP: CULTURE-GENERATIVE FUNCTION OF GAMES [20 June 2005 / 1 September 2005]
International Conference
CULTURE-GENERATIVE FUNCTION OF GAMES. GAME AS A MEDIUM, TEXT AND RITUAL
19 and 20 November 2005, Poznan, Poland
In his famous book Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga says that the play pre-exists culture, accompanies it and infiltrates it from the very beginning. Recalling his words as the motto of our conference, we would like not only to underline his impact on the creation of a discipline which by the end of the 20th century gained the name of ludology, but also to emphasise the way Huizinga's thought points a direction of developing game research standards and methodologies.
Game, as a fresh issue in the scope of academic research, requires an initiation of attempts aimed at creating a unified terminology, determining the range of studies that would enable a full analysis of the phenomenon, and answering a number of important questions, including the following ones:
What was the significance of games in human lives until the present?
Have games already developed a stable position in education?
What have been the uses of games and what are they going to be like in the 21st century?
Is it possible and justified to create a separate methodology for studying games?
Can ludology evolve only on the basis of theories developed by humanities and social sciences?
We address those questions to linguists, language teachers, literary critics, historians, philosophers, anthropologists, culture theoreticians, sociologists, psychologists, pedagogues and reresentatives of sciences. The suggested discussion and contribution topics are as follows:
Language and communication games in the process of teaching a foreign language, pedagogy and education of young children
Games as a tool of e-learning
Linguistic and cultural borrowings in games. Lanugage as a game
coponent
Interactive narratives: Communication in computer games and RPG
From pre-history to cyberspace: games in the human history
Position of games in the contemporary culture
Evolution of social games
Literary inspirations of games
Game psychology
Social phenomena in games
Modern technologies as game tools
Games and the problem of violenc! e
Image of games in media and in the public opinion
Methods of game research.
Submissions:
If you are interested in taking part in the Conference, please be so kind as to submit a preliminary application, including your personal details and the contribution subject to the representatives of the Organizers:
Dr. Augustyn Surdyk (SurdykMG@amu.edu.pl)
and
Agata Zarzycka (agata@proteus.pl)
The deadline for preliminary applications is 20 JUNE 2005.
The deadline for submitting main theses or abstracts of contributions
is 1 SEPTEMBER 2005.
Organizational information:
The organizers will be glad to provide you with all organizational details, including the online registation option, which is going to be available soon.
posted 5/19/2005
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