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The Future of Video Games: Race, Play, and the Speculative Imagination

  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 […]

Game Design for the End of the World

Screenshot of "Cloud Theory," a game (in development) by Colleen Macklin   Climate change, pandemics, political polarization, systemic racism, and capitalism run amok! If there’s anything that marks the 2020s, it’s a sense that life on the planet is increasingly under attack. Games –particularly video games – have explored these apocalyptic themes, often putting players […]

Alumni & Friends Book Club: The Reading List: A Novel

Please join the Alumni & Friends Book Club for a discussion of The Reading List: A Novel by Sara Nisha Adams. “An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance […]

Sarah Kane Junior Recital

Join Clark Arts on Friday, April 1st at 8pm in Razzo Hall to celebrate the hard work and dedication of Music Program Performance Major, Sarah Kane! Sarah is a junior […]

Augmented Abilities in the Virtual World

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 […]

Tech Talk with Rob@MSBDC

Tech Talk with Rob @ MSBDC is an open mic series created for you to chat with Rob DelMastro, our resident technology geek, about any and all things tech related and how it fits into your business. No format, no rules (ok maybe a few) and no such thing as a stupid question. Join anytime […]

Tech Talk with Rob@MSBDC

Tech Talk with Rob @ MSBDC is an open mic series created for you to chat with Rob DelMastro, our resident technology geek, about any and all things tech related […]