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Title: Play and the Creation of Culture in the Modern World: WIT 2012Date: 24-25 February, 2012
Location: Waterford Institute of Technology, The Granary, Hanover Street, Waterford
Time:
The Fifth International Political Anthropology Workshop in Ireland on Play: The creation of culture and the modern world.
Organised by the Department of Applied Arts, Waterford Institute of Technology, the journal International Political Anthropology, and the School of Sociology & Philosophy, University College Cork. Conveners: Tom Boland (Sociology, WIT, tboland@wit.ie,) and John O’Brien, (Sociology, WIT, jfobrien@wit.ie,).
Aim of the Workshop
The aims of the workshop will be, first, to revisit the relevant literature and concepts on play, and second, to link these with issues in politics, society and art in the contemporary scene and in the emergence of modernity.
Convenors
Tom Boland tboland@wit.ie, John O'Brien jfobrien@wit.ie
Schedule - Friday 24th of February
10.00 – 12.30 Welcome – Michael Howlett (WIT)
- Introduction: 'Play as Contest: On the Occupants of streets, chairs and corridors' (Tom Boland, WIT)
- Theorising Play - (Arpad Szakolczai, UCC, Agnese Horvath, Cambridge, & Harald Wydra, Cambridge)
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 The Anthropology of Play
- Fastnacht in Alsace: Maintaining the Past in Anticipation on the Future (Stacey Pape, Brandeis University)
- Art, Work, Politics and Play (Lawrence Davis, UCC)
- Aggressive Play and the Serbian Hospitality Contest (David Murphy, NUIM)
3.00 -3.30 Coffee
3.30-5.30 Play and Childhood
- ‘The more things change the more they stay the same’: The role of tradition in children’s play (Carol Barron, DCU)
- Responding to conflicts between nurturing creativity and teaching associated skills (Patricia McLouglin, Sligo IT)
- Misunderstood and Endangered: The decline of childhood free play and the potential implications (Doireann O’Connor and Jonathan Angus, Sligo IT)
- Serious Fun and Serious Play: A creative dynamic for Social health in the seriously ill. (Peter Kearney, UCC)
6.00 – 8.00 Book Launch
Organisation in Play by Donnacha Kavanah, Kieran Keohane & Carmen Kuhling
Schedule - Saturday 25th of February
10.00 – 12.30 Introduction - John O'Brien (WIT)
- On Play and Organisations - (Donnacha Kavanagh, UCC, Kieran Keohane, UCC, & Carmen Kuhling, UL)
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Play and Aesthetics
- Art, play and participation – (Aislinn White, University of Ulster)
- Jesus in Film: Theology, Hermeneutics, Play (Paul Clogher, WIT)
- Ugliness, Beauty and Truth: orality, play and creativity in the Gaelic chanson de la malmariée and Cúirt an Mheon Oíche /The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman. (Tríona Ní Shíocháin, UL)
3.00 – 3.30 Coffee
3.30 – 5.30 Play and Recreation
- Grown up issues in little boys’ play: the reflection of the socio-political and socio-anthropological agenda in modern strategy video games.(Lukas Dabkowski, UCC)
- Bath time as playtime: a figurational examination of the Bath ritual. (Philip Mahady-Ryan, DIT)
- Bungee jumping into the void: play and excitement in modern consumption and leisure culture (Bjørn Thomassen, The American University of Rome)
- Play in Academic Work. (Sean Moran, WIT).
Conference close
7pm Banquet (tbc)
For further information please see www.politicalanthropology.com and pdf below
