I realize that I should have put this up the day I received it, but my mind somehow did not process the information earlier. So, with two more days being, well, two more days, here you are:
CALL FOR PAPERS for panel entitled, “Gaming our Future? Time-Politics-Security in a Virtual World”
The space that digital games occupy in many people’s lives has grown exponentially. Research on the socio-political ramifications of digital games has not, however, and is only now beginning to catch up. This panel seeks to redress the theoretical gap between this world and a growing number of virtual worlds and welcomes therefore papers that explore the relationship between digital games and questions of time, politics/political agency, and security using insights gained from the Social Sciences as well as the Humanities.
If you would be interested in presenting a paper, please send us an abstract of no more than 500 words by Thursday, May 22. Do not forget to include a title for your abstract, your name, your affiliation, and your contact information.
Please contact the panel organizers if you would like more information:
Stephanie Buus,
Research Fellow, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: stephanie.buus@ui.se
Maria Stern
Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Development Research
Gothenburg University, Sweden
E-mail: maria.stern@globalstudies.gu.se
The general call for ISA proposals can be viewed at: http://www.isanet.org/newyork2009/.
Edit: Deadline for panel paper proposals is now past. However, isanet.org says deadline is May 30, so other panels or sections of the conference are still open for proposals.
Edit #2: You don’t really need me to tell you that May 30 is now behind us – just know that in case you submitted a proposal that was not elected to the panel, you can join me in congratulating Rudolf who will be presenting in New York come February. Way. To. Go.
May 20, 2008 at 9:25 pm
And I just got my proposal submitted. [Or how this names.]
May 22, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I second your submission – by submitting my own proposal.
May 30, 2008 at 6:44 am
Colloidal says : I absolutely agree with this !
May 30, 2008 at 9:54 am
As of yesterday, I will unfortunately not take part in the digital games panel. Bummer! However, I am more than happy to step back and “lose out” to Rudolf’s proposal, which in turn has been accepted. Way to go! Now let’s hope that the panel as a whole, which as of now is by itself still a proposal, will be accepted to the conference!
@Colloidal: Thanks & welcome (unacquaintedly? – unidentifiedly!)!