The Animex Research and Innovation Conference, together with the Animex Symposium on Game Cultures and Net Zero, is excited to announce this year's keynote speaker, Dr Poppy Wilde, who will present 'The Promises and Pitfalls of posthuman and Postanthropocene Games.'
Dr Poppy Wilde is a senior lecturer in media and communication at Birmingham City University's Centre for Media and Cultural Research. She is the author of ‘Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities' (Routledge, 2023) and has published extensively on critical posthumanism and game studies. Her research explores how posthuman perspectives are represented in different contexts, particularly through gaming, zombie studies and personal research methods.
