MMGC's Rob Gallagher will be giving the keynote at the Multiplay Network's 2022 conference on January 19th. Organised around the theme of Games, Culture and Identity, the conference marks the start of a new multidisciplinary network dedicated to researching digital games and play, based at the University of Sunderland. Sessions will bring together researchers, streamers and game developers to discuss topics ranging from personal game design to posthumanism. Titled ‘Digital Play and the Politics of Personhood’, Rob's keynote considers how terms, images, concepts and characters drawn from gaming culture are being used to contest and reformulate understandings of personhood and politics, from alt-right memes to autobiographical walking sims.

Registration for the conference is is free.