This quarter, Assistant Professor (and DANM Principal Faculty) Soraya Murray hosts the 2017 Arts Dean’s Lecture Series entitled “Video Games as Visual Culture,” as part of her course FILM 80V.
Lectures take place on selected Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:20-6:55pm at Media Theater, UCSC Theater Arts Center. Free and open to the public.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/lectures/dean-lecture-series-2017
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Wednesday, February 1
Matthew Thomas Payne, University of Notre Dame
Playing War
Wednesday, February 8
Alenda Chang, UC Santa Barbara
The Ecology of Games
Wednesday, February 22
Aaron Trammell, UC Irvine
Inventing the Ludic Imagination: The Lost History of Game Paraphernalia
Monday, February 27
Anna Everett, UC Santa Barbara
About That Race and Games Thing: Playing Intersectionality @ the Interface
Monday, March 6
Colin Campbell, Polygon
Video Games and the Changing Politics of Criticism
Wednesday, March 8
Bonnie Ruberg, UC Irvine
Speedruns and Slow Strolls: Queer Movements through Space and Time in Video Games
Monday, March 13
TreaAndrea Russworm, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Race and Empathy in Video Games