Game Design for the End of the World Tuesday, April 5 at 7p.m. Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons Climate change, pandemics, political polarization, systemic racism, and capitalism run amok! If there’s anything that marks the 2020s, it’s a sense that life on the planet is increasingly under attack. Games –particularly video games – have explored…
Wednesday, April 6 at 4:30 p.m. Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons In this talk, which is written as a love letter, Professor TreaAndrea M. Russworm (she/her) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst examines different modalities of Black cultural life—hip hop, Blaxploitation film, popular fiction, and simulation games—as spatial-speculative tools for playing in a broken world.…
Wednesday, April 6, 4:30 p.m. John and Kay Bassett Admissions Center Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Greg Bassett will present a lecture on “Weakness of Will and the Status of Ethical Judgments.” We ordinarily think that our ethical judgments play an important role in explaining and predicting our actions. This connection to judgment is part of…
