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

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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).

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