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: 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).

Game we're playing: Camel Up

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