Conference schedule
9.00-9.05 |
Introduction and procedures for the day. Opening remarks – Arabella Plouviez (Academic Deal of University and Sunderland’s Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries) |
9.05-10 |
Key note speech by Rob Gallagher, lecturer in Film and Media at Manchester Metropolitan University. |
10-10.15 |
Break |
10.15-10.45 |
Benjamin Carpenter (Existential in Elysium: Selfhood, Ideology, and Meaning in Disco Elysium) Visiting Fellow in the Sector of Philosophy (in the School of PPL) at the University of East Anglia. |
10.45-11.15 |
Stephanie Farnsworth. (The Mutants of Fire Emblem Three Houses: An Exploration of Bio-exploitation, and How Humans Become Gods) PhD candidate University of Sunderland |
11.15-11.45 |
Poppy Wilde (Avatar-gamer entanglements: Posthuman subjectivity at play) Provisional. Lecturer in Media and Communication, School of Media at Birmingham City University |
11.45-12.15 |
Imo Kaufman (Gamer as a paradoxical place, performance and problem: disaggregating the term gamer through a queer oral history lens) Midlands 4 Cities Researcher in collaboration with the British Games Institute Videogame History: Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies University of Nottingham |
12.15-1.00 |
Owner and host of Game Assist |
1-2.00 |
Lunch |
2.00-2.30pm |
Mr Eyram Tawiah, Dr Aurelia Ayisi (The future of representation in video games: Insights from Leti Arts) Department of Communication Studies University of Ghana |
2.30pm-3pm |
Adam Jerrett (Creating Negotiated Artefacts: Making Personal Games to Explore Identity through Reflection) Lecturer - Computer Games Technology, University of Portsmouth |
3-3.3.45 |
Intellect books showcase. |
3.45-4.00 |
Break |
4.00-4.30 |
Javier Rayón. Games studio presentation of Dream of Darkness. Head of studio. |
4.30-5.00 |
Adam Formby ('Alright Everybody! Lets Mosey!': Exploring Self through the Memoralisation of Videogame Subcultures Years on through Final Fantasy VII) Sociologist at York St John |
5.00-5.25 |
MultiPlay roundtable Participants: Javier Rayón, Tom Rodgers, Imo Kaufman |
5.25-5.55 |
Lisa Meek (Animal Crossing Space and Place) Former postgraduate student at University of Sunderland, soon to be starting a PhD |
5.55pm-6pm |
Closing Remarks and thanks |