Please join the Pop Culture Cluster for their ongoing series of speaker events on Games & Social Justice, which examines the intersections between digital and analog gaming cultures and the work of social justice.
Speakers will explore various approaches to video games, tabletop games, and tarot including game design, game play, and fan cultures to examine how gaming cultures, on the one hand, perpetuate bias, prejudice, and problematic power dynamics and, on the other, are capable of intervening in discourses of oppression, heteronormativity, and settler colonialism.
Events happen mostly on Thursdays in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and online. In-person seating is limited. Events are free, but registration is required. Please register for each event in the schedule below and visit the Pop Culture Cluster’s website for more information on speakers and programming.
Alongside recording the events, they have also commissioned local artist Sarah Heng Hartse to live draw the events and provide a graphic recording of our time together. Her drawings will be projected in real time! We’ll compile the graphics at the end of the series and host them on our website as another form of documentation.
If you’d like to stay informed of upcoming events and opportunities like this, please signup for the Pop Culture Cluster’s mailing list HERE.
This programming is generously cosponsored by the UBC Popular Media for Social Change Research Excellence Cluster, CENES, the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, German Studies Canada, UBC Comics Studies Cluster, the UBC Centre for European Studies, and the Narratives Group in the UBC Centre for Migration Studies. This work has also been partially supported by ISoTL Seed support.
Notice of Recording/Photography
Unless otherwise stated, these events will be recorded. Virtual participants can submit questions anonymously and will not be visible to other participants. In-person participants may notify the photographer/videographer onsite if they do not want their image taken. The Q&A portion of the events will not be recorded.