Talks and presentations

Panic!: Building a Videogame to Understand the Satanic Panic’s Fear of Gaming and the Imagination.

June 13, 2026

Conference proceedings talk, Canadian Games Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, QB, Canada

As presented previously at DiHuCon, this talk was given on the findings of my undergraduate thesis Dungeons, Dragons, and the Devil: Faith, Authority, and Identity through Role-Playing Games during the Satanic Panic in Calgary, outlining a path towards creating a creative game project through which to explore the same themes on the intersections between role-playing and reality formation.

Panic!: Research-Creation to Explore the Satanic Panic and Its Attacks on RPGs.

March 26, 2026

Conference proceedings talk, DiHuCon: University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Presentation on the findings of my undergraduate thesis Dungeons, Dragons, and the Devil: Faith, Authority, and Identity through Role-Playing Games during the Satanic Panic in Calgary, outlining a path towards creating a creative game project through which to explore the same themes on the intersections between role-playing and reality formation.