Category Archives: Conferences

Panel 1: The Horror Video Game: historical, narrative, and generic aspects The sessions I made it to yesterday was very interesting, as one of my colleagues, Dominic Arsenault (Introduction à la pragmatique des effets génériques: l’horreur dans tous ses états) presented on the evolution of genres; talking about and demonstrating both our need/desire to categorizeContinue reading “Thinking After Dark: Day One”

I always love conferences.  A place where you can go and be fully immersed for two or three days (sometimes longer) in a limited subject with the same group of people. Most of my conference experience has been outside my home city – Montreal, and come to think about it, I think I prefer itContinue reading “Conference In the City: Thinking After Dark”

Thinking after Dark: International Conference on Horror Video Games Montreal, April 23-25, 2009 The research group Ludiciné from the University of Montreal, in collaboration with the Research Group on the Creation and Formation of Cinematographic and Theatrical Institutions (GRAFICS) from the University of Montreal and the NT2 Laboratory on Hypermedia Art and Literature from theContinue reading “CFP: Thinking after Dark: International Conference on Horror Video Games”

‘Tis the season for the CFP’s! Get out your calendar and check out what 2009 has on board for Game Studies and other related areas. Check out the right side bar.

Looking through other people’s blogging about AoIR, I (happily) stumbled upon this imminent summary of our session (Shanly rocked the presentation btw!). We were of the few fortunate people to have a small session (2 presentations) due to the absence of a third person – whereas some sessions had up to 5 presentations for theContinue reading “Blogged: AoIR Presentation”

It is Saturday early evening and instead of being out making the most of the last few social hours, I am curled up in my pyjamas in my hotel room, looking out at the fantastic view of Vancouver that I have from my 18th floor room. It has been raining since we got here WednesdayContinue reading “AoIR 8.0: The Aftermath … or Rambling Reflections”

Thank you to a kind sponsorship by the organizers, I spent today attending sessions at the Spirit of Inquiry conference. Sadly, I missed the welcome and morning key note – which I was told was riveting. Sessions are 1 hour long, with only one presentation – which leaves plenty of time for interaction, which is reallyContinue reading “Spirit of Inquiry – Day 1”