We will see you on Friday, October 25 for the UNC-Duke Critical Games Symposium at 108 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill 27514.
Schedule:
12:30-1:00 PM
LUNCH + COFFEE
1:10-1:15 PM
Welcome
Joyce Rudinsky and Victoria Szabo
1:15-1:45 PM
Featured Artists
Bill Seaman + Greg Baker, Duke
“Open World Recombinant Informatics”
1:45-2:00 PM
BREAK
2:00-3:00 PM
Game Studies:
Steve Gotzler, UNC-CH – “The Art of Counting Labor: Worker Placement Games as Capitalist Realism”
Kimberly Hassel, Duke U – “Stranger than Fiction? Yasuke and the Assassin’s Creed: Shadows Controversy”
E. Chebrolu, UNC-CH – “Emergent racial allegory: Racially reactive dialogue and scenarios in Baldur’s Gate 3”
Q/A
3:00-3:15 PM
BREAK
3:15-4:45 PM
Courtney Rivard, David Hall, Steve Gotzler, UNC-CH -“Critical Game Studies Pedagogy at UNC”
Panelists will discuss the development of UNC’s first Critical Game Studies Program and its gaming-center classroom, including a hands-on example of our approach to game pedagogy.
Q/A
4:45-5:00 PM
Open Discussion
