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For more information, contact the series coordinator Mickey Casad (Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services): mir9@cornell.edu
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2014 Fall Schedule
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September 15: Merritt Kopas
Independent Game Designer, Archivist, and Activist
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Merritt Kopas is the author of the games LIM, HUGPUNX, and Consensual Torture Simulator, and a number of other works. Her games have shifted conversations about play, bodies, and sex and have been showcased in festivals across North America and Europe. Kopas aims to build forms of play useful to radical movements and marginalized communities. She curates free and accessible games at her project Forest Ambassador, an attempt to bring interesting work in games to wider publics. She is currently editing an anthology of interactive fiction to be released in 2015
Tom McEnaney:
October 3: Edward Baptist
Professor of History, Cornell University
Digital Epistemology
4:30 pm
Olin Library 703
November 5: Hoyt Long
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Tom McEnaney received his PH.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. His research interests include the history of media and technology, sound studies, discourse theory, linguistic anthropology, and new media studies. He has published on digital photography's role in the construction of divided global and national publics in Cuba (LaHabana Elegnate), and the poetics of play and historiography in Borges and Benjamin(VariacionesBorges).
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2013 Fall Schedule
Sept. 19: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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