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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. 

• 10/10/24 - Fire and Oil: Coming to Terms with a More Flammable World
• This is an Honors Event. See tags below for category information. #UHLevent10933

Join us as we celebrate the launch of two new books, Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender and Family: Poems. Dr. Joy Ladin will share readings and reflections on her new collection of essays and poems, and discuss how trans identity, Jewish identity, and personal struggles can help us connect with those who do not share them.

Co-sponsored by UConn Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, UConn Department of English, and UConn Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Hosted remotely from UConn Stamford Campus.

Join Live Zoom Event on Oct 14 at 3:30 pm:

https://uconn-edu.zoom.us/j/98085366414?pwd=FhFC6quhJ11ZbdiVYBcGPrX9l0hbuY.1

A research talk by UCHI dissertation research scholar Danielle Pieratti on her project “Unoriginal: Transvocal works from Dante’s Purgatorio,” with a response by César Abadia-Barrero.