Tag: play and games

We encourage scholars from the fields of children’s literature, screen studies, games studies, media and communication, material culture and, of course, scholars studying play from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, to join us in considering the latent metacritical potentials of play and its diverse modes and forms in bridging disciplinary divides.

Following two successful Philosophy at Play conferences, we are pleased to announce the third biennial conference to be held at University of Gloucestershire, UK on 9 and 10 June 2015. A book, arising from papers presented at the 2013 event is to be published in time to be launched at the conference. Call for Papers The two previous conferences and ensuing publications...

3rd Global Conference: Play on the Edges Saturday 1st November – Monday 3rd November 2014 Prague, Czech Republic Play on the Edges is a special track within the larger conference on Play. While “play” may connote games, theatrical performances, and other more traditional connotations, we invite submissions on this special “edgy” conceptualization of “play.” One might think of Play as a metaphor for...

3rd Global Conference Saturday 1st  November – Monday 3rd November 2014 Prague, Czech Republic “Unlike children in other countries, the Eskimos played no game of war. They played with imaginary rifles and harpoons, but these were never directed against people but against the formidable beasts that haunted the vast wastes of their land.” (Marie Herbert)   Call for Presentations The interdisciplinary project Making Sense Of: Play seeks to...

WHERE? Freie Universität Berlin, Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature WHEN? July 4-5, 2014 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 15, 2014 ORGANIZATION: Julia Dettke, M.A. (Berlin) and Elisabeth Heyne, M.A. (Münster) All play moves and has its being within a play-ground marked off beforehand either materially or ideally, deliberately or as a matter of course. The arena, the card-table, the magic circle, the...

Games of Late Modernity: Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens 75 Years Later (January 15-17 2014). An Interdisciplinary Conference on Play as the grounding Structure of Reality The end of this year will be marked by the 75th anniversary of Johan Huizinga’s classic study of the Homo Ludens. Its main thesis is as striking as it is simple: Culture is founded on and as...

Befattning Professor emeritus Publikationer The People of Democracy. Understanding Self-Determination on the Basis of Body and Movement. (= Bevægelsesstudier. 5) Klim: Århus 2004 Jørn Møller (red.) 2004: Folk - om et grundbegreb i demokrati og kultur. (= Bevægelsesstudier. 6) Århus: Klim. (Med Bo Vestergård Madsen:) Idræt som fest. Bogen om landsstævnet. (= Bevægelsesstudier. 7) Århus: Klim 2006 Bevægelse i festen. Idrætshistorie som festhistorie. (=...