The 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 group game. Snacks will be available for everyone attending. 

The talk: New Media Cults: Teaching Influencer Culture through a Board Game

Speaker: Jeffrey Wheatley

Jeff Wheatley is an Assistant Professor whose research and teaching span history, religion, and game studies. His first book, American Fanatics: Religion, Rebellion, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century, critically examines media representations of fanatical religious groups deemed threatening to the growing US. A founding faculty member of the Game Design Major, he splits his classes between Religious Studies and Game Design. His emerging projects examine the shared vocabulary of the sacred in early Religious Studies and Game Studies scholarship, gamification for education, and how humanities research can inform game mechanics, theme, and world-building.

Game we're playing: Flip 7

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