Video Game Cultures Conference 2024

Video Game Cultures is an interdisciplinary academic conference series that has been running since 2009, and for the first time it will be held in Birmingham. Presenters are joining us from across the UK, Europe, and further afield, and are at all career stages from master’s students to established academics.

Register your interest to: Charlotte.stevens@bcu.ac.uk 

Drawing on threads emerging from last year’s Video Game Cultures conference in Klagenfurt, Austria, the theme for this year’s conference is other in all its permutations: other, others, othered, othering, otherness, and beyond. Presentations across three days seek to centre marginal practices, marginal identities, peripheral national traditions, and consider researcher positionality in/as other. They reflect on other spaces and sites of gaming, discuss other approaches and methods to studying games, players, and gaming cultures. This year’s conference will therefore investigate various ways in which video game cultures, technologies, practices, communities, paratexts and genres develop within the framework of five thematic tracks. 

 Speakers include:

• Dr Charlotte Stevens
• Dr Nick Webber
• Dr Poppy Wilde 
• Dr Will McKeown
• Dr Alex Wade
• Dr Eugenio Triana 

See the schedule here