Greetings all, (It doesn't come up much, but this is a 'Screen' list, so...) I'm convening a panel at the annual Cultural Studies Association of Australia conference to be held in Melbourne, Australia from December 5 - 7, 2002. Paper proposals are welcome. Details are as follows: Gametime Computer games studies is a field of critical endeavour on the verge of attaining 'critical mass'. This is not a moment too soon, given the immense significance of computer gaming in contemporary audio-visual culture. Computer games rival film and television as entertainment forms and have suffered to some degree the same fate as these did in their day, namely, that of marginalisation as a trivial phenomena not worthy of serious critical attention. As it struggles into existence, computer games studies is marked by foundational disputes over appropriate modellings of its object of inquiry. Chief among these is that between "ludologists" who insist on the specificity of computer games as games in contradistinction to the claims of media studies theorists that computer games are textual constructions akin to other media forms. This panel invites different approaches to the constitution of computer games as objects of critical study that provide some insight both into the nature of computer games and into the ambivalent processes that attend and subtend the appearance of a new territory of critical work out of existing terrain. Send proposals of 250 words by June 30, 2002 to: Patrick Crogan Lecturer in Film and Media Studies Dept Writing, Journalism and Social Inquiry University of Technology Sydney [log in to unmask] UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER ======================================================================= This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. ======================================================================= ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html