
Past Conferences
Year | President | Meeting Site | Keynote |
2021 | Smita Mathur | Virtual (due to COVID-19) | Lois Holzman, Kerry Ann Escayg |
2020 | San Antonio, TX (Cancelled due to COVID-19) | ||
2019 | Walter Drew | Harrisonburg, VA | Sugar Mitra |
2018 | Rich Worch | Melbourne, FL | Peter Gray |
2017 | Carrie Lobman | Rochester, NY | Bernie De Koven, Montana Miller |
2016 | Eva Nwokah | New Brunswick, NJ | Cathy Salit |
2015 | Marcia Nell | San Antonio, TX | Howard P. Chudacoff, Gail F. Melson |
2014 | Myae Han | Rochester, NY | Stephen Siviy, Phillips Stevens, Jr. |
2013 | John Sutterby | Newark, DE | Garry Chick |
2012 | Dana Gross | Albuquerque, NM | Bill Corsaro |
2011 | Michael Pattee | The Strong, Rochester, NY | Bowen White |
2010 | John Sutterby | Atlanta, GA | Stuart Brown |
2009 | David Kuschner | Brownsville, TX | |
2008 | Dorothy Sluss | Tempe, AZ | |
2007 | Rochester, NY | Joe Frost | |
2006 | Olga Jarret | St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada | June Factor |
2005 | Olga Jarret | Santa Fe, NM | Paul McGhee |
2004 | Jim Johnson | Atlanta, GA | |
2003 | Charleston, SC | Mimi Bloch | |
2002 | Jim Christie | Santa FE, NM | Artin Goncu |
2001 | Diane Parham | San Diego, CA | Bernie DeKoven |
2000 | Dorothy Sluss | Baltimore, MD | Brian Sutton-Smith |
1999 | Linda A. Hughes | Sant a Fe, NM | Peter K. Smith |
1998 | Alice M. Meckley | St. Petersburg, FL | Garry Chick |
1997 | Alice M. Meckley | Washington, DC | Brian Sutton-Smith |
1996 | Stuart Reifel | Austin, TX | Joe Frost |
1995 | Margaret C. Duncan | Salzburg, AUSTRIA | Brian Sutton-Smith |
1994 | Dan Hilliard | Atlanta, GA | |
1993 | Don Lytle | St . Paul, MN | Don Hellison |
1992 | Garry Chick | Paris, FRANCE | |
1991 | Rob Lavenda | Charleston, SC | Don Handelman |
1990 | George Eisen | Las Vegas, NV | |
1989 | Ann Marie Guilmette | Philadelphia, PA | Max Kaplan |
1988 | Kendall Blanchard | Berkeley, CA | Mary Catharine BatesonAlan Dundes |
1987 | Jay Mechling | Montreal, Quebec,CANADA | Richard Schechner |
1986 | Frank Manning | Tempe, AZ | Gershon Legman |
1985 | Bernard Mergen | Washington, DC | Robert Coles |
1984 | Gary Alan Fine | Clemson, SC | Bernard De Koven |
1983 | Brian Sutton-Smith | Baton Rouge, LA | Roger Abrahams/Sir Edmund Leach |
1982 | Andrew W. Miracle | London, Ontario, CANADA | Robert Fagen |
1981 | Alyce Taylor Cheska | Fort Worth, TX | Victor Turner |
1980 | John Loy | Ann Arbor, MI | Norman Denzin |
1979 | John M. Roberts | Henniker, NH | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
1978 | Helen B. Schwartzman | South Bend, IN | Don HandelmanJohn M. Roberts |
1977 | Phillips Stevens, Jr. | San Diego, CA | Gregory Bateson |
1976 | B. Allan Tindall/Phillips Stevens, Jr. | Atlanta, GA | Brian Sutton-Smith |
1975 | Michael A. Salter | Detroit, MI | Edward Norbeck |
1974 | B. Allan Tindall | London, Ontario, CANADA | Organizational Meeting |
Past Conference Program Archives
Past Conference Material Archives
Materials from 2006 Conference: The following represent examples of the excellent play research presented at the 2006 conference. These are works in progress in most cases and cannot be used without the expressed permission of the author(s).
Powerpoint Slides
- Irish Play Policies (Barron)
- Hospital Play (Bolig)
- Dorothy Howard (Factor)
- Playing in Golden Cradle (Gross)
- Youth Play (Guilmette, et al.)
- Improvisation (Lohman)
- Caring Classrooms (McNeil & Guilmette)
- Humor & Nursing (McNeil & Guilmette)
- Slide Learning (Nwokah)
- Animal Play (O’Neil)
- Recess (Patte)
- Text Analysis (Reifel)
- Play Perceptions (Smith)
- Adolescent Play (Staempfli)
- Play Works (Staempfli)
- Recess (Sunday)
- Vivian Paley (Sutterby)
- Rough & Tumble Play (Tannock)
- Class Community (Wisneski)
Handout
- Therapeutic Playwork (Brown)
- Game Culture (Chernaya)
- Pleasure Outline (Hendricks)
- Ludicity (Lopes)
- Human Rights in Action (Lopes & Oliveira)
- Marginalia Play (Thompson & Crickner)
Past Conference Videos
Peter Gray Keynote from 2018 Conference
Tom Henricks Keynote from 2018 Conference
Past Conference Photos
2018 Conference Photos
2016 Conference Photos
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