【征文】在边界嬉戏：关于儿童文学、传媒以及文化中的游戏的一个跨学科论坛

在边界嬉戏：关于儿童文学、传媒以及文化中的游戏的一个跨学科论坛

推送日期：2018年12月12日

截稿时间：2019年1月7日

会议时间：2019年9月12-14日

会议地点：英国剑桥大学儿童文学研究中心

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会议名称：在边界嬉戏：关于儿童文学、传媒以及文化中的游戏的一个跨学科论坛

会议时间：2019年9月12日至14日

会议地点：英国剑桥大学儿童文学研究中心（Centre for Research in Children's Literature at the University of Cambridge）

投稿邮箱：[e-mail]

参与方式：提交论文摘要（250字）以及个人简介（100字）至邮箱

截止时间：2019年1月7日

Playing at the Boundaries: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Play in Children’s Literature, Media and Culture, September 12-14, 2019

英国剑桥大学儿童文学研究中心标志

Confirmed Keynotes:

Marah Gubar – Associate Professor, MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Paul Ramchandani – LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, The University of Cambridge Faculty of Education

Metamorphosis and multiplicity have increasingly come to characterise the media landscape of the twenty-first century. Emerging technologies of production, distribution, and consumption not only allow texts to travel new and often unpredictable circuits, but also lower the thresholds of participation in cultural life, producing a new generation of “produsers” (Bruns 2008). In this environment, children’s literature, media and culture have gone mainstream, as stories overspill the edges of their texts and dissolve the boundaries that have conventionally separated different media forms and disciplines. At this juncture, we would like to invite scholars to join us in experimenting with the forms and shapes of our own discipline; to play, if you will.

The current cultural moment demands that scholars welcome approaches that are themselves nimble, dynamic, responsive and experimental, particularly from those of us who study childhood and its ephemera. Taking inspiration from play theorists such as Thomas Henricks, this conference proposes play as a metaphor through which to look anew at our field in this new era of border crossings. Play is not only action, but a mode of interaction and activity; a disposition, an experience and ultimately a context (Henricks ‘Theme and Variation’, 136). Such understandings of play open up new ways of thinking about the ways cultural products are engaged in everyday life – as a potential form of imaginative play, or an act through which texts becomes animated. Additionally, through their connotations of interaction and motion, they allow scholars to inhabit the intersections and overlaps between fields that are an increasingly common feature of the current cultural moment.

We therefore invite papers that explore the place of play in children’s literature, media and culture in experimental, transgressive, and creative ways. 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.

Specific topics include but are not limited to:

• Text as plaything, playmate, playspace: the book as material object – as toy, as media, as technology, as haptic text etc.

• Power Play: Play as criticism; the infantilisation of play; the role of play in demarcating high and low culture, adult and child culture, or traditional and experimental art

• Play as aesthetic: What makes a text playful? What is the look and feel of a playful text?

• History of Play: Play and material culture; evolution of play; cultural construction of play

• Playing with texts: adaptation and transmediation in children's literature, media and culture; the place of the child in relation to participatory cultures, fan studies etc.

• Interplay: Analysing other media forms (comics, films, animation, comics, video games) from a children’s literature perspective; interdisciplinary approaches to the study of children’s literature media and culture and playing with theory

• Performative Play: theater, animation, apps, games as playful forms; interactivity and embodiment in children's media consumption

• Play as subversion: play and agency; play and creativity

• Wordplay: interpretation, meaning-making as form of creative play

Proposals of 250 words for a 20-minute paper should be sent, together with a 100-word bio, to [e-mail] by January 7, 2019. We also encourage panel and round-table proposals, especially those that that seek to employ unconventional modes of presentation.

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