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Invited talks

2015 "Media in Mind." closing keynote address, Media Fields 5: Encounters conference, UCSB, April 3.
2010 "Forms and Platforms: Serious Games from an Embodied Perspective." Utrecht University, Netherlands, November 29.
2005 "The Body in The River." Harvard University, October 13.

Papers presented

2015 "Pulling Mario's Nose: Nintendo, Branding, and Embodiment, 1977-present." Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montreal, QC, March 28.
2014 "Camera Issues." Rendering (the) Visible Conference. Atlanta, GA, February 7.
2013 "Constraint and Emergence in Videogame Use." Society for Social Study of Science. San Diego, CA, October 10.
2013 "La Vita Loca: The Promise of Playing in Public." With Ethan Tussey. Digital Games Research Association. Atlanta, GA, August 28.
2012 "Radical Embodiment and Affective Interactivity." Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston, MA, March 22.
2011 "Cognitive Extension at a Distance." World Picture Conference. Toronto, ON, October 21.
2011 "A New Mode of Being." Society for Cinema and Media Studies. New Orleans, LA, March 10.
2008 "Virtual World Naturalism." Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Philadelphia, PA, March 6.
2006 "Film as a Narrative Influence in Music Education." With Alison Reynolds and Matthew Hoy. Narrative Inquiry in Music Education. Phoenix, AZ, April 6.

Panels chaired

2012 "Playing with Feelings 2: Medium, Immersion, and Affect." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, MA, March 2012.
2011 "Video Game Worlds." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2011.

Discussant

2013 Shadows and Illuminations (dir. Robert Lemelson) film screening, Emory University, October 23.
2013 The Wisdom Tree (dir. Sunil Shah) film premiere, Emory University, February 21.
2009 Opening Roundtable, Media Fields Conference 2: Infrastructures, UCSB, April 9.
2007 "Fields of View and the Experience of Place," Media Fields Conference, UCSB, April 7.
2004 "An Evening with Tsai Ming-liang," Boston University, October 21.

Campus presentations

2014 "From Rambo to Rushdie via Linklater and Lavant: Our Peanut Butter Cup Runneth Over." With Marshall Duke, Emory Department of Psychology. Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Lunch Series. September 18.
2014 "Letters and the Unknown Woman: Epistolary Architecture in Three Recent Videogames." Film and Media Studies department colloquium. September 11.

Conferences organized

2011 "Aesthetic Mutations." Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture conference, UCSB, May 27.
2010 "Celebrity and Glamour." Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture conference, UCSB, May 21.
2009 "Risk." Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture conference, UCSB, May 29.
2009 "Media Fields 2: Infrastructures." UCSB, April 9-10.
2007 "Screening Media." Graduate student conference, UCLA, October 20.