CFP: Perspectives and/as Gaming for PAMLA Conference 2017 Honolulu, Hawaii (11/10-12/2017)

deadline for submissions: 
June 26, 2017
full name / name of organization: 
Victoria White, University of California, Davis
contact email: 

Games are structures of struggle, and the root of struggle comes from limitations of perspective: access to a particular vision that is restricted, either from the self or other. What does this emphasis on perspective enable games to do with and for its players, spectators, and player/spectators? This special session invites interdisciplinary research on games and gaming as tools (or mechanics) of perspective and vision. Potential discussions may address: virtual reality gaming and other visual mediations; the role of realism in game design; representation of games in other media (fiction, film, theater, etc); the role of identity representation in video games; fan-culture productions and viewership (ie, Let’s Play videos, fan art, etc); immersive and/or nontraditional gaming forms.

Individual paper presentations will be between 15 and 20 minutes long. Please submit proposals via the online system by June 26, 2017. The PAMLA 2017 Conference will be held at the lovely Chaminade University of Honolulu (with the official conference hotel being the Ala Moana) from Friday, November 10 to Sunday, November 12.

Paper proposals must be made via our online system found here:

http://pamla.org/2017/topic-areas

Any questions can be sent to the above email address.