[DiGRA UK] CfP: Playing Dead May 2018

[Matt Coward]

Hello all,

Just wanted to send out a quick message to let you know that just over two
weeks remain to submit an abstract for the one-day symposium *Playing Dead* at
the University of York (17 May 2018). Booking for the symposium will open
in March 2018.

It is the aim of this free one-day symposium to explore the intersections
that exist between death, culture and play. Play is used in a board sense
to mean leisure activities more generally and, as such, not only
encapsulates the playing of (non-)digital games, but also the consumption
of cinema, literature, comics, etc. Alongside a keynote address from
Professor Christopher Partridge (Lancaster University) abstracts are sought
from individuals wishing to present a twenty-minute paper.

Themes might include, but are not limited to, the following:

   - death and the popular imagination
   - the presentation of death in literature and cinema
   - explorations of death and gaming
   - horror and the Gothics interactions with death
   - the dead and the undead
   - dark tourism
   - presentation of the corpse in popular culture
   - memorialisation, digital culture, and media

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be supplied, along with a
biography of up to 200 words to matt.coward at york.ac.uk by the 28 February
2018.

Best wishes,
Matt
-- 
*Matt Coward*

*Administrator, DaCNet: Interdisciplinary Death & Culture Research
<https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/death-and-culture/>*
*Administrator, CrimNet: York's Research Network on Crime and Criminal
Justice <https://www.york.ac.uk/social-science/research/crimnet/>*

*PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of York
<https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/our-staff/students/matt-coward/>*
*PhD Blog, UK Tabletop Gaming Communities
<https://uktabletopgamingcommunities.wordpress.com/>*

Department of Sociology
Wentworth College
University of York
Heslington
YO10 5DD

Tel: 07800 502 500
@mattcoward_ <https://twitter.com/mattcoward_>
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