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Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity

Name: Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity
Start: 2023-11-25T15:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-11-25T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Reading Museum

25 November 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

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Video games seem to teach us that monsters must be fought and can be defeated. Join Dr Jarosłav Švelch from Charles University in Prague to explore how this came to be. Do games offer potential for more nuanced representations of monstrosity?

Details

Date:: 25 November 2023
Time:: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Event Category:: Heritage & Creativity
Event Tags:: Centre for Health Humanities, video games

Venue

Reading Museum

Blagrave Street
Reading, Berkshire RG1 1HQ United Kingdom + Google Map

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« IFNH: Funding outcomes showcase
Stickers as self-authorised ‘publishing’ in urban spaces: The graphic language, themes, and localisations of stickers in the Ruhr area, Germany »