*All sessions
will be located in the Humanities Instructional Building, Room 135* ______________________________
REGISTRATION and BREAKFAST 8:00 WELCOME
8:55
9:00-10:30 Virtual gameplay:
value versus fun Elizabeth Losh, UCI Writing Director, Humanities Core "The Play's the Thing:
The Arden Project and the Dilemmas of the Serious Games Movement" Jake Peters, USC, Geography "Coding Commons: Fun and
Play in the Politics of Free and Open Source Software" Josef Nguyen, UCI, Arts Computation Engineering "Playing with My Avatar:
Relationships and Role-Playing in Games" 10:30-12:00 Bodies and
Commodities Scott Tinley, Claremont Graduate University, Sociology "Shades of Hegemony in Surfing:
Resistance and Compliance in a Commodified Subculture" Cristina F. Rosa, UCLA, World Arts and Cultures "I am not kidding! To play
is a serious matter" Annie Tucker, UCLA, World Arts and Cultures "The Cab-Grab, The Faker,
and the Toni Bones: Crutchmaster At Play in the City" 12:00-1:30 LUNCH (on your own)
1:30-3:00 Economies
of Work and Plays Rachel Wortman, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies "The Play is Not the Thing: The
'Play'ground of Shakespeare's Theatre" Robin Stewart, UCI, English "'Play with thy Peer:' The
York Corpus Christi Plays and the Concept of Medieval Recreation" Amy Collins, University of Victoria (British Columbia), English "Musical Play: The Cultural
Production of the Poet/Poetess in EBB's 'A Musical Instrument'" 3:00-4:30 Play, in
practice: serious fantasies? Robert Wood, UCI, Comparative Literature "Play and Revolutionary Praxis" Natilee Harren, UCLA, Art History "La Cedille qui ne finit
pas" Dr. Natasha Grigorian, Cambridge University, French "Play of Fantasy Across the Arts: Paul
Valéry's melodrama Sémiramis and the impact of the Ballets
Russes" 4:30-5:00 COFFEE (HIB 137)
5:00-6:30 DANIEL TIFFANY
Keynote (HIB 110)
6:30 DINNER (HIB 137)8:00 FILM SCREENING (HIB 100)______________________________ SATURDAY APRIL 5th8:00-9:00 BREAKFAST and REGISTRATION
9:00-10:30 Playing with
institutions: laughter, gender, identity Scott Patrick Murphy, UC Riverside, Sociology "'Hey, you're leakin'!:'
Playing with institutionalized meanings, temporary laughter groups,
and humor orgies in a corner donut shop" Lisa Harris, University of British Columbia, English "Playing with your food!" Hannah Godwin, Wake Forest University, English "Was she hatefully cruel?
An Iceberg, a Warrior, or a Witch? Multivalent Meaning in Riddle 33" 10:30-12:00 Intellectual
Play Michael Graziano, UC Davis, Comparative Literature "The Rhetoric of Paralogy:
How to Situate a 'Report on Knowledge'" Buddy Hoar, UCI, English "Playful History? Martin
Amis's Times Arrow and Gadamer's Hermeneutic Openness" Natalie Strobach, UC Davis, Comparative Literature "'If knaves should tempt you:'
Amor Intellectualis and the Writer's Play Between the Sheets 12:00-1:30 LUNCH
(on your own)
1:30-3:00 Creative
Re/writing Melissa (Lisa) Haynes, University of Victoria, English The Politics of 'Serious
Play' in Harryette Mullen's Sleeping With the Dictionary Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY Graduate Center, Comparative Literature "Body Language: The Performance
of Writing in Akerman's Je tu il elle" Erin Trapp, UCI, Comparative Literature "The Fort-Da of Berlin Walls:
the logic of 'forepleasure'" 3:00-4:30 Child's
Play: Interpretive and Filmic Frames Michelle Cho, UCI, Comparative Literature "Playing and Relating in
I'm a Cyborg but That's OK" Brandon Granier, UCI, Comparative Literature "A Play of Mirrors: Lynch's
Inland Empire and the Cinematic Ego" Jared Russell, New School for Social Research, Philosophy "Interpretation as serious
play" 4:30-5:00 COFFEE (HIB 137)
5:00-6:30 ALAN BASS
Keynote (HIB 110)
6:30 DINNER (HIB 137)Conference sponsorship generously provided by the Departments of Comparative Literature, English, French, German, and Anthropology, the International Center for Writing and Translation, the Office of the Vice Chancellor, the Critical Theory Emphasis and Critical Theory Institute, Postmodern Culture, and the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. |
