Streaming SMC is a series of video game livestreaming events hosted by Book & Media Studies Prof. Felan Parker, featuring St. Mike’s faculty discussing games related to their areas of expertise. On October 30, 2020 from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern, Prof. Parker will be joined by Christianity & Culture Prof. Stephen Tardif to play […]
In the last 50 years, video games have become increasingly prominent in our social, cultural, and economic lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this process, with the game industry reporting record profits as players of all ages and backgrounds turned to games for distraction, entertainment, and connection with others. Serendipitously released in March 2020 just […]
All BMS Major and Minor students are invited to get together and kick off the school year. This online event will include welcome messages from faculty and video remarks from the BMS Student Association. Please register here to get the Zoom meeting link.
On Wednesday, October 20 at 4:30 p.m., join St. Mike’s Book and Media Studies prof. Paolo Granata and a panel of experts in Medieval studies and manuscript culture to explore one of the oldest and most richly decorated medieval copies of Dante’s Divine Comedy ”Inferno.” Learn more and register to attend.
Problematic Pleasures in Digital Games and Play Online Symposium, University of Toronto Friday February 18, 2022 1–3 p.m. EST Games, of all the popular arts, are perhaps most inextricably bound up in notions of pleasure, but in spite of the primacy of pleasure, the concept is rarely interrogated in game studies. However, in recent years […]
Be Bold Be Italic.Presentation of “La Operina” (1522), the First Writing Manual of CancellerescaOct. 19 @ 6 p.m.Italian Cultural Institute (496 Huron Street)Paolo Granata, St. Michael's Book & Media Studies Professor, will officially present a beautiful copy of La Operina, in a show-and-tell panel exploring the historical significance of Cancelleresca handwriting, in light of the rise of typographic cursive – […]