The Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities is happy to introduce the new initiative “Fun and Games (Research) with the CEAH” this semester. These events will be a place for faculties to come together and share their research while also engaging in playing games and having fun. The goal is to build community between humanities faculty (or anyone else interested) via playing some games) while also learning about the fascinating games research going on here at ISU.
Each event will begin with 15-minute invited talk by a faculty member at ISU doing research on Games and related areas. After a brief Q&A session everyone in attendance will then be invited to stay and play a game such as Flip 7, Sushi Go or other similar group games. Snacks will be available for everyone attending.
There are going to be 4 game nights this semester, each with a talk from an accomplished faculty whose research focuses on games. These will take place from 4 PM – 7 PM at the Tearoom (23 Mackay Hall).
Kitchen Table Generals and Basement Battlefields: A First Draft Social History of Cold Wargaming
Speaker: Jeremy Best
Jeremy Best is Associate Professor of History and a founding professor of Game Design at Iowa State University. He teaches courses at the intersection of the imagination and history; including in game design and the history of modern Germany. His current work, Blitzkrieg in the Basement, is on the intersection of game studies and Holocaust memory. It examines wargames about World War II and their role in the maintenance of Holocaust misinformation. He is the author of the award-winning book, Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire (University of Toronto Press, 2021).
Registration
Click here to sign up for the game nights. You can sign up for multiple of these in one form.