Upcoming Events
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Oct
4
ELM2 Conference Day 1 All Day
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Oct
5
ELM2 Conference Day 2 All Day
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Oct
6
ELM2 Conference Day 3 9:00am
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Oct
9
UCHI Fellow’s Talk: Julia Wold on Metagaming 3:30pm
UCHI Fellow’s Talk: Julia Wold on Metagaming
Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
This talk will focus on the “ludic” or gamified nature of the 16th century Italian courtly manual, The Book of the Courtier. As this text has long been read in a games studies context, this talk will both present the scholarly consensus on the ludic nature of the text and identify structural similarities (homologies) between the text and video games. In taking this next step, we can better understand not only the gamified structure of such early modern texts, but how and why those features appear and function in video game adaptations and appropriations of those texts.
Julia Wold is a PhD Candidate in the English department and Dissertation Fellow at the UCHI. Her research centers on Shakespeare/early modern drama and adaptation theory, with a focus on new media, specifically video games. Her work has recently been published in Adaptation, and she is the author of a forthcoming essay on Shakespeare as genre marker inStar Wars in a collection onShakespeare and Science Fiction from Arden Bloomsbury. She is also the co-host and editor of the podcastStar Wars English Class,an ongoing publichumanities project that recently started its fourth season.
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Oct
10
Teale Lecture: John Vaillant 4:00pm