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11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Venue
SOAS, Main Building
Room
Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)

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A talk by a leading historian, Dr Jennifer Cromwell (Reader in History, Manchester Met), who uses video and analogue games in their research and their pedagogical practice:


"In the 2023/24 academic year, I launched a new final year undergraduate unit, “Gaming and the Humanities”, which is open to all students studying within the Department of History, Politics, and Philosophy. The unit combines critical games studies (the analysis of various topics as presented within analogue and digital games) and a creative assessment, in which students use games as a medium to present academic topics of interest to them. In this talk, I’ll discuss the aims of the unit, the role of games as democratising and decolonising pedagogic tools, and also how working on this unit (both its development and delivery) have impacted my own research practices."

 

 

 

 

 

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