Ashlyn Sparrow Games are the largest cultural and entertainment forms of our time. Pre-Covid, thousands of players would gather in parks to play Pokemon Go or in large stadiums to see international teams play a game of League of Legends. These numbers have continued to grow with games like Animal Crossing: New Horizon, selling […]
Evolution of technology has always seemed to touch non-disabled people first and then adjusted for the bigger subset of people by either those who care or have experienced difficulty in using the technology. Professor John Magee will be hosting a talk on augmented abilities in the virtual world in which Professor Magee will talk about how […]
In this talk, which is written as a love letter, Professor TreaAndrea M. Russworm (she/her) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst examines different modalities of Black cultural life—hip hop, Blaxploitation film, popular fiction, and simulation games—as spatial-speculative tools for playing in a broken world. What can Black speculative thinking teach us about navigating the […]
This talk by Whitney (Whit) Pow (they/them) of New York University situates today’s queer and trans games movement within the histories, contributions, and politics of queer and trans people and people of color from the 1970s to the present. How might we re-think and re-imagine the radical potentiality of video games by centering game studies […]
Join the American Language and Culture Institute (ALCI) for a Citation 101 workshop in Atwood 302!
