speaking
I am available for speaking engagements. Possible topics include videogame culture, games and news, games and learning, games and advertising, games in business and corporate training, the political uses of games, and other related subjects.
Want to book me for a speaking gig?
Next Appearance: July 31, 2008
Convergence Lecture
Private client
Future Appearances
June 2, 2008
Games for Change 101 Workshop
at the Games for Change Annual Festival
October 9, 2008
Keynote
Meaningful Play, Michigan State University
Past Appearances
A selection of past speaking appearances. For a full list of conference and invited talks, see my CV.
July 14, 2008
Students and Gaming
At the University System of Georgia Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs and Student Affairs Annual Meeting
July 3, 2008
Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008
Official Judge
June 24, 2008
Games and Corporate Learning
TAG Workplace Learning Society
June 19, 2008
American Heart Association
Social Media Strategy Workshop
June 13, 2008
Social Gaming Summit
San Francisco, CA
June 4, 2008
Keynote Speech
Persuasive Technology 2008 Conference, Oulu Finland
May 20, 2008
Software Studies Workshop
at the University of California San Diego
May 8, 2008
Keynote Speech
Philosophy of Computer Games Conference, Potsdam Germany
May 6, 2008
Deutsche Gamestage
Closing Keynote, Convergence Day
April 11, 2008
Game Developers eXchange 2008
Savannah College of Art and Design
April 3, 2008
International Symposium on Online Journalism
at the University of Texas at Austin
March 26, 2008
ICE 08
Interactive Content Exchange, Toronto
March 25, 2008
Workshop on Wellness and Well-Being
At the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, CA
March 4, 2008
Designing Outreach in Virtual Worlds
Panel at the 2008 Politics Online Conference
February 23, 2008
Participant Journalism & Journalism Participation: Interacting & Authoring in New Media
Symposium on Computation and Journalism
February 18, 2008
Serious Games Summit
Co-organizer, 2008 Game Developers Conference
February 18, 2008
Game Developers Conference
Keynote at the Academic Summit; co-chair at the Serious Games Summit; Game Studies Download 3.0 (with Jane McGonigal and Mia Consalvo)
February 12, 2008
Visiting Lecture
HUMlab, Umeå University Sweden
December 27, 2007
Panel on Persuasive Games
at the Modern Language Association annual conference
November 29, 2007
Seminar on Procedural Rhetoric
at Concordia University, Montreal
November 27, 2007
The Present and Future of Game Criticism
Invited Talk, Montreal Game Conference (Montreal, QB)
November 13, 2007
Computers and Other Neglected Topics in Game Studies
at NYU
November 8, 2007
Games and Civic Engagement
Knight Center Communications Forum, at MIT
November 1, 2007
Procedural Rhetoric: Code as Argument
21st Society for Science, Literature and the Arts (SLSA) Conference (Portland, ME)
October 18, 2007
Persuasive Games
GVU Brown Bag Lecture Series
October 16, 2007
Serious Play: The Practices of Everyday Life in Videogames and Virtual Worlds
UC Irvine Humanitech Series on Technology, Translation and Transformation
October 15, 2007
Platform Studies: Material Constraint in Words, Images, and Computers
Talk hosted by the USC department of Comparative Literature
October 12, 2007
Keynote, North American Simulation and Gaming Association
Banquet keynote at the NASAGA 2007 conference
October 6, 2007
Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo
Plenary panel with Daniel Greenberg and Ernest Adams
September 21, 2007
LeapFrog Enterprises
Talk on serious games and educational games
September 15, 2007
Platform Studies: Computing and Creativity on the VCS, MPC, and Wii
(with Nick Montfort), Digital Arts and Cultures 2007 Conference (Perth, Australia)
September 7, 2007
Sim-U 2007, University of Arkansas
Keynote presentation at this conference on developing higher education responses to the computer gaming student generation
September 5, 2007
Book Signing
A book signing for Persuasive Games at the Barnes & Noble Midtown Atlanta, 5pm
August 22, 2007
National Academies
On games and youth, for the Standing Committee on Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate, and Review (TIGER)
August 15, 2007
Video Games and Learning
At the Georgia Tech Annual President's Retreat
August 7, 2007
The Colbert Report
I will appear as a guest on The Colbert Report, episode airing August 7
August 1, 2007
NYC Book Talk & Signing
At Eyebeam in Chelsea, New York City. With Alex Galloway, Ken Wark, and Clive Thompson
July 23, 2007
Bloomberg TV
An appearance on Night Talk, with Mike Schneider, discussing my book and videogames in politics
July 12, 2007
Making Games Persuasive
Workshop (with Eric Zimmerman) Games, Learning & Society Conference 3.0 (Madison, WI)
June 21, 2007
Persuasive Games
Invited Lecture, Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA)
June 12, 2007
A Moment of Crisis! A Case Study of Airport Security
Invited Presentation, Games for Change 2007 Festival (New York, NY)
May 23, 2007
Health Games & Persuasion
Invited Panelist, The Institute for the Future Health Horizons Spring 2007 Conference (San Francisco, CA)
May 18, 2007
Building Powerful Online Communities: Best Practices
Invited Panelist, Personal Democracy Forum (New York, NY)
May 16, 2007
Videogames Beyond Entertainment
Keynote Presentation, Colorado University Spring Symposium (Denver CO)
May 14, 2007
From Atari VCS to Nintendo Wii: Platform Studies as an Approach to Videogame Criticism and Design
Invited Lecture, UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
February 5, 2007
Persuasive Games: Introduction to Procedural Rhetoric
Invited Lecture, UC Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
February 2, 2007
Persuading with Mobile Games
Mobile Persuasion Conference, Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
December 6, 2006
Platform studies: computers and other neglected topics in game research
Invited Lecture, Playing the Field: An Interdisciplinary Game Researchers Summit. IT University Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
November 17, 2006
Persuasive Games, or How Videogames Make Arguments and How Players Respond
Invited Lecture, University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)
November 15, 2006
Introduction to Platform Studies
Invited Lecture, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Seminar, Duke University (Durham, NC)
November 13, 2006
Political and Activist Gaming
Invited Lecture, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University (Durham, NC)
September 4, 2006
Casual Games, a New Perspective
Keynote Presentation, Nokia Game Day (Helsinki, Finland)
July 9, 2006
Introduction to Games for Health
Invited Lecture, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Atlanta, GA)
May 9, 2006
Persuasive Games and Social Change
Invited Lecture, The Hollywood Hill (Los Angeles, CA)
May 9, 2006
Persuasive Games, or How to Resist Serious Games
Keynote Presentation, Taking Games Seriously Symposium, Ohio University (Athens, OH)
April 28, 2006
How to Do Things with Videogames
January 20, 2006
What do Educational Games Teach
Invited Lecture, The Age of Simulation, Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria)
November 15, 2005
The Future of Advertising in Games
European Advertising in Games Forum (London, England)
October 13, 2005
Social Issues Games
Invited Lecture, Games for Change Conference (New York, NY)
September 22, 2005
Designing for Reproach
Invited Lecture, University of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
July 10, 2005
Digital Gaming as Pedagogy and Activism
Invited Lecture, Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
June 22, 2005
Virtual Worlds, Real Money
Supernova 2005 (San Francisco, CA)
February 10, 2005
At This Moment: Representation of Events in Videogames
Innovative Game Design Symposium, Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, Netherlands)
August 15, 2004
Playing the News
Invited Lecture, American Press Institute (Washington DC)
March 20, 2004
Digital Futures for Television
Writers Guild of America Symposium (Los Angeles, CA)