Gothic Games and Disturbing Play Conference
In honour of one of the most exciting seasons in the calendar, MultiPlay will be hosting a themed conference on Gothic Games and Disturbing Play. This will be an online conference hosted on the evening of the 25th October.
Schedule
6.00pm – Opening remarks by Stephanie Farnsworth
6.05pm – Keynote: Abi Johnson presents ‘Show Me Your Teeth:’ Monster Romance on Archive of Our Own.
6.25pm – Jack Orchard – “Under palest watch, you taught, we changed”: Gothic Epistemology and Space in the Metroidvania genre.
6.45pm – Greg Mc Guinness – A Seat at the (Round)table: Engaging with Elden Ring (2022) to Explore Queer Theory’s Social/Anti-Social Divide.
7.05pm – Break.
7. 15pm – Kris Darby – The Mourning Tree: Attempting to Ontologise Remains in Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.
7.35pm – Catherine Pugh and Melody Blackmore – ‘Come, Let Me Eat You’: Traumatic Landscapes as Devouring Gothic in Little Nightmares.
7.55pm – Ewan Kirkland – An Avatar is Being Beaten: Sadism, Masochism and Haunting Ground.
8.15pm – Jemma Morgan – Eco-Cosmicism: Re-Reading Lovecraft in the Wake of the Climate Crisis.
8.35pm – Closing remarks.
You can claim your free tickets to our conference here:
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