3nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
April 18 and 19, 2008
California Suite, University Union
California State University, Sacramento

The third annual ASNR conference invites papers that address the politics or politicization of play and performance, festival and frivolity. This interdisciplinary conference provides a forum for considering manifestations of play and performance at macro- and micro-levels of everyday life, both historically and contemporarily. We invite abstracts for papers in the humanities and social sciences that address the following or related ideas:

* How play/performance rejects, subverts or maintains normative values across contexts, societies, and time periods;
* How forms of play and performance are deployed tactically to achieve particular ends;
* If particular forms or areas of play and performance are erased or "left out" from both local and global analyses;
* How these moments articulate the lives of performers and audience;
* What are the discursive stakes of referring to social and cultural events and practices as “play”?

The conference is open to scholars of all ranks. Please submit a 250 word abstract by February 10, 2008. Abstracts should be sent via email. Please send to asnr@csus.edu .

Inquires may be directed to Dr. Cindi SturtzSreetharan and Dr. Erin Stiles at asnr@csus.edu

For more information, please visit our website http://www.csus.edu/asnr