Conference Presentations

2022. “Leave her better than you found her”: Pickup artists in gaming culture. Video Games as a Common Ground. Zadar, Croatia (virtual conference). September 2-3.

2022. The wounds that never healed: Bleed, horror, and trauma in Cry of fear. Canadian Game Studies Association. Canada (virtual conference). May 30–June 3.

2022. Of beefcakes and money shots: Ambiguous masculinities and pornographic bodies in Coming out on top. Queering Game Studies. Canterbury, United Kingdom (virtual conference). February 16.

2021. The wounds that never healed: Videoludic trauma in Cry of fear. DiGRA India Conference 2021—Game culture(s) and India: Dispatches from a ludic subcontinent. India (virtual conference). November 20–21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkHPwFxJ9LQ (28:11-48:30)

2021. “Mark Matthews stars in ‘Anatomy is Hard’”: Sexual humour and queer space in the video game Coming out on top. Northeast Popular Culture Association, United States (virtual conference). October 21–23.

2021. « Publish in English, otherwise it’s game over » : Réflexions sur le monopole de l’anglais dans les études vidéoludiques [Reflexions on English monopoly in game studies]. Game History Symposium, Montreal, Canada (virtual conference). September 28–October 1.

2021. HACKS project presentation: Archives and representation. Game History Symposium, Montreal, Canada (virtual conference). September 28–October 1. [co-author with C. Therrien & D. Guay-Bélanger]

2021. Beefcakes, ambiguous masculinities, and pornographic bodies in Coming out on top. Canadian Game Studies Association. Edmonton, Canada (virtual conference). May 31–June 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-ZQIQ1m0w

2020. Sexual humour, virtual romance, and queer space in Coming out on top. Future and Reality of Gaming, Vienna, Austria (virtual conference). November 21–22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBL9Iuabqzo

2019. Video games for change: How video games can counter symbolic annihilation. 6th Edition of Medusa: University of Toronto Anthropology Graduate Student Union Conference, Toronto, Canada. March 28–29.

2018. In English please! Reflections on the dominance of English language in science. 46th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, London, Canada. October 31–November 3.