Activities
Conference
participation
Results from
research on gambling have been presented by Per Binde at the following
international conferences.
2009
Gambling Scholars Meeting – The Finnish Foundation for Gaming Research,
Helsinki, 26-27 October (invited keynote speaker). Presentation: Towards
an Anthropology of Gambling.
2008
7th European Conference on Gambling Studies and Policy Issues -
European Association for the Study of Gambling (EASG).
Nova Gorica, Slovenia (July 1-4). Paper presented: "Gambling
advertising and problem gambling: An interview study".
2007 Nova Scotia's Responsible Gambling Conference, Halifax, Canada
(October 1-2). Keynote speech on anthropological perspectives on
gambling. Conference brochure.
2006
1st Global and Remote E-Gambling Research Institute Conference.
Amsterdam (August 31 - September 1). Paper presented: "Why people gamble:
An anthropological perspective".
2006 13th
International Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking – Institute for
the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming. Lake Tahoe, Nevada (May
22-26). Paper presented: “The Good, the Bad and the Unhappy: Myth
structures of tales of jackpot winners.”
2005 6th
European Conference on Gambling Studies and Policy Issues – European
Association for the Study of Gambling (EASG). Malmö (June 29 - July 2).
Paper presented: “Deceptive and Unethical? Reflections on Gambling
Advertising”.
2004 4 Nordiske konferanse om
spilleavhengighet – Stiftelsen Nordiska Sällskapet för Upplysning om
Spelberoende. Lillehammer (March 29-30). Paper
presented: “Spel i ett kulturellt perspektiv.”
2003 12th
International Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking – Institute for
the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming. Vancouver (May 26-30).
Paper presented: “Gambling and religion: Histories of concord and
conflict.”
2002 Engaging
the World –
European Association of Social Anthropologists, 7th Biennial
Conference, Copenhagen (August 14-17). Paper presented: “Gambling across
cultures: The shifting moralities of games of chance.”
2002 5th
European Conference on Gambling Studies and Policy Issues – European
Association for the Study of Gambling (EASG). Barcelona (October 2-5).
Paper presented: “Gambling and non-gambling nations: On the worldwide
distribution of gambling”.
Lectures
A selection of lectures
on gambling by Per Binde.
2009
Spelandets drivkrafter.
Öppenvårdshuset Gustav - Social resursförvaltning, Malmö (November 6).
2009 En studie av Syna korten, självhjälpsgrupp för unga med spelproblem.
Spelberoendes Riksförbunds representantskapsmöte, Kungsbacka (October
24).
2009
Hasardens frestelser, Frank Heller-sällskapets sammankomst, Göteborg
(April 29).
2008 12th
international Science Festival, Göteborg (April 19), three separate
lectures: (a) Spel på vinst och förlust; (b) Spel om pengar:
En del av vår kultur; (c) Lotterimiljonärerna: Myten och
verkligheten (together with A. Hedenus).
2007 Spel:
Ett kultur- och samhällsfenomen.
Jakten på jackpot: Spel
om pengar ett växande problem. Göteborgs Stad, Social
resursförvaltning, Göteborg (December 5)
2007
Spelreklam och spelberoende. Statens Folkhälsoinstituts seminarium
om spelreklam, Stockholm (September, 26)
2006 Den
gode, den onde, den fattige:Teman och tankemönster i tidningsartiklar om
stora spelvinster. CEFOS seminarium, Göteborg (September, 7)
2005 Selling Dreams - Causing
Nightmares? Will Marketing the Lotteries Lead to Problem Gambling?
European Lotteries (EL) / World Lottery Association (WLA) Seminar on
Responsible Gambling and CSR, Malmö (June 27-29)
2005 The Ethics of Gambling from an
Anthropological Point of View. Veikkaus' Ethical Council, Helsinki
(June 2)
2005 Reklam för spel om pengar: En
forskningsöversikt. Nordiska Rådet för Alkohol- och Drogforskning
(NAD): Nordiskt seminarium om spel- och spelberoendeforskning,
Helsingfors (March 14-16).
2004/5 Varför spelar vi?
"Spelansvar - Spelglädje och kunskap i samspel", seminarium arrangerad
av Svenska Spel, Malmö (18 november 2004). I andra versioner även vid
seminarierna "Spelansvar - för vem", Göteborg (10 mars 2005), Sundsvall (26 maj 2005)
och Stockholm (6 oktober 2005).
2004 Spel - en del av vår kultur.
Folkhälsostämman, Stockholm (11-13 oktober).
2004 Spel som kulturfenomen: Vad
förenar och skiljer spelandet i olika samhällen? RFMAs konferens
"Spel och spelmissbruk: Teori, förekomst och behandlingsmetoder",
Stockholm (9 september)
2004 Forskning om spelreklam.
Svenska Spels XIII:e SpelAkademi, Visby (31 augusti - 1 september).
2003 Drömmen om storvinsten: Om
spel som kulturfenomen i dagens Sverige. Universitetets vecka,
Samhällsvetenskapens dag, Göteborg (11 oktober)
2002 Spel, moral och religion.
Svenska Spels XI:e SpelAkademi, Visby (27-28 augusti).
2002 Spel om pengar i Sverige och
världen över. Sjätte Internationella Vetenskapsfestivalen, Göteborg
(19-27 april).
2002 Spel som kulturfenomen:
Presentation av ett nytt forskningsprojekt. Nordiska Rådet för
Alkohol- och Drogforskning (NAD): Temamöte om spel och spelberoende,
Oslo (31 januari – 1 februari).
Knowledge bank
In the course of the various
research activities an extensive knowledge bank on gambling is being
created. Currently the data base contains more than 2600 references, all
including an abstract and keywords, on gambling and related subjects;
there is also an extensive archive of press clippings from Swedish
newspapers. Contact Per Binde if you wish to commission a review of the
literature on a particular subject.
- Note: This knowledge bank is not public. A public available database of gambling
literature is the
e-library of the
Responsible Gambling Council, Canada.
Academic assignments, relating to gambling
Currently (since 2007) Per
Binde is member of the advisory group of the
Swedish Longitudinal Gambling Studies (SWELOGS), conducted by the Swedish National Institute
of Public Health.
2006-2009 Per
Binde was member of the reference group of a local project for
counteracting problem gambling among young internet poker players,
financed by the Swedish Inheritance Fund (“Syna korten: En insats mot
spelmissbruk bland unga nätpokerspelare”)
2008 Per Binde was
member of Program Council,
12th International Science Festival, Göteborg (Festival theme:
Let's play! Game, gamble and play).
2007 - 2008 Per
Binde was member of the expert group of the Swedish Inquiry on Gambling,
Ministry of Finance (Spelutredningen
SOU 2008:124)
2005, 2006, 2007 Per Binde was member of the
jury for The National Gaming Research Essay Competition, established by
the Svenska Spel (Svenska Spels forskningsstipendium).
2005 Per Binde was member of referee panel,
Economic and Social Research Council, Great Britain, assessing
applications for funding within the RIGT/ESRC Research on Problem
Gambling Initiative.
2005 Per Binde was member of PhD
committee (bedømmelseutvalg) for a
doctoral thesis in social
anthropology, on the subject of gambling, University of Copenhagen.
Refereeing
Per Binde has peer-reviewed manuscripts on
assignment of the following academic journals and publishing houses:
Addiction Research and Theory -
International Gambling Studies - International Journal of Mental Health
and Addiction - Journal of European Public Policy - Journal of Gambling Issues - Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute - Routledge Publishing - Swedish National
Institute of Public Health Report Series - UNLV Gaming Research & Review
Journal.
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