Matthew Skwiat (postdoctoral College Fellow, UVa) will present the following lecture: “Feeling History: Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, and the Melodramatic Form.” Monday, October 9, 10:30 am, New Cabell Hall, Room 236.
Register with Christa Noel Robbins in order to receive a copy of the paper to be workshopped or to sign up for future announcements.
Yota Batsaki is the executive director of Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University research center, museum, and historic garden in Washington, DC, where she also directs the Plant Humanities Initiative. Her current research interests focus on the cultural histories of plants, and art in the Anthropocene.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the UVA Scholars’ Lab.
Yota Batsaki is the executive director of Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University research center, museum, and historic garden in Washington, DC, where she also directs the Plant Humanities Initiative. Her current research interests focus on the cultural histories of plants, and art in the Anthropocene.
This event is co-sponsored by the UVA Scholars’ Lab.
Dr. Anatole Tchikine is Curator of Rare Books, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University.
Osama Siddiqui (Assistant Professor, Dept. of History & Classics, Providence College), presenting a chapter from his manuscript The Discovery of Society: Economic and Social Thought in Colonial India. Monday, October 23 10:30am, New Cabell Hall, Room 236.
Register with Christa Noel Robbins in order to receive a copy of the paper to be workshopped or to sign up for future announcements.
Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of five books, including The Hypothetical Mandarin (2009), On Literary Worlds (2012), The Elements of Academic Style (2014), and Humanist Reason (2021). He has co-edited three volumes, most recently, Information: A Reader (2022), and is the co-translator, with Lea Pao, of Peter Janich’s What is Information? He's also the Director of Penn State’s Center for Humanities and Information.
This event is a part of the IHGC's For the Humanities lecture series.
This event requires prior registration. Copies of Dr. Hayot's book will be provided to the first twelve to register for this event. Register here:
Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of five books, including The Hypothetical Mandarin (2009), On Literary Worlds (2012), The Elements of Academic Style (2014), and Humanist Reason (2021). He has co-edited three volumes, most recently, Information: A Reader (2022), and is the co-translator, with Lea Pao, of Peter Janich’s What is Information? He's also the Director of Penn State’s Center for Humanities and Information.
Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike is Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia.
Amanda Phillips (they/he/she) is Associate Professor of English, Film and Media Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies at Georgetown University. They are the author of Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture, as well as co-editor of the Queer/Trans/Digital book series with NYU Press. Amanda writes about sex, death, identity, and politics in video games, with a particular emphasis on centering the insights of queer women of color feminism in the study of technology. His interests more broadly are in issues of racial and gender justice in and around technoculture, popular media, and the digital humanities.
This talk explores the so-called "pornography of death" in video games. Once infamously called "murder simulators" by anti-obscenity activist Jack Thompson, the simulation and animation technologies of video games are indeed often used to depict elaborate, explicit, and exploitative fantasies about dying and killing. From exploding heads and blood fountains to flailing bodies and x-ray vision, the mechanics of death in video games are polymorphously perverse, and understanding the ways that digital technologies stimulate our curiosity of how bodies respond to violence or how individuals behave under threat is crucial in this moment of increased gun violence, racial injustice, and trans- and queerphobia.
This talk requires prior registration. Copies of Dr. Phillips' book will be provided to the first twelve to register for this event. Register here:
Amanda Phillips (they/he/she) is Associate Professor of English, Film and Media Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies at Georgetown University. They are the author of Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture, as well as co-editor of the Queer/Trans/Digital book series with NYU Press. Amanda writes about sex, death, identity, and politics in video games, with a particular emphasis on centering the insights of queer women of color feminism in the study of technology. His interests more broadly are in issues of racial and gender justice in and around technoculture, popular media, and the digital humanities.
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