Queer Reading Video Games

  • Date: 10 October 2024, 12:15–13:00
  • Location: Online event
  • Type: Seminar
  • Lecturer: Marie Dalby, PhD student at the Centre for Gender Research and the Department of Game Design, Uppsala University
  • Web page
  • Organiser: Centre for Gender Research & Folkuniversitetet
  • Contact person: Joelin Quigley Berg

Marie Dalby uses the video game Dark Souls (2011) to explore what happens to queer readings of video games, when we abandon identification, and look to desire.

Dark Souls (2011) is a video game that has achieved an almost mythical status; at once genre-defining and a synonym for difficulty, its cultural impact is not to be underestimated. Developed by Japanese game studio FromSoftware, Dark Souls challenges conventions on how to tell a good story and has become emblematic of games’ ability to convey meaning in ways other forms of media cannot.

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The Gender Lunches is an online seminar series organised in collaboration with Folkuniversitetet.

Porträttbild av Marie Dalby

Marie Dalby / Photo: Joelin Quigley Berg

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