Gen Con at UW-Parkside

Gen Con programs, 1978 - 1984

Gen Con @ UW-Parkside Digital Collections

Did you attend Gen Con XI?  Check out the virtual representation of our Art in The Library photo gallery and help us put names to faces!

https://visit.virtualartgallery.com/gencon-at-uwp

Dungeons & Dragons became a target of moral panic in the Satanic Panic of the 1980s to 1990s, as is shown in the newspaper clippings.

Artifacts in the display cases highlight games, photos, statues, and other items that are related to well-documented Moral Panics, as defined by Jock Young and Stanley Cohen:

• Moral panics are instances of mass fear based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group of people is dangerously deviant and poses a threat to society's values and interests.
• Such panics are fostered by mass media and exploited by self-appointed moralists and politicians.