Albert Einstein wrote, “Play is the highest form of research.” In Play, a one-day conference, explores play as the principle of innovation and experimentation that underwrites gaming, performance, and other cultural, social, and aesthetic activities. Key questions In Play poses include: How can the study of computer gaming, in line with studies of other cultural forms and productions, contribute to culture studies in the academy? How have embodied performance and play historically enabled possibilities for both freedom and domination, for the making as well as unmaking of societies? How does a focus on play complicate recent scholarship on the global history of experimental art forms?

Plenary speakers for In Play include:
· Patrick Jagoda, University of Chicago
· Anastatia Salter, University of Central Florida
· Julius Fleming, Jr., University of Maryland
· C. Riley Snorton, Cornell University
· McKenzie Wark, The New School

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