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SUMMARY:Lecture with Sarah Slingluff\, "A Whole New World? Orientalism in 
 Video Games"
LOCATION:ATC LED Wall (ATC 1.200)
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Slingluff will review lessons she has learn
 ed through her consulting work on video games\, most notably Assassin's C
 reed\, Mirage\, done through the Digital Lab for Islamic Culture and Coll
 ections (DLIVCC) and in the classroom. She will discuss common pitfalls t
 hat designers of all cultures often fall into when making video games set
  in or inspired by historic Islamicate societies\, how to avoid them\, an
 d more broadly reflect upon the place that art history and history have i
 n games of all natures.\n\nSarah Slingluff\, PhD is a specialist in the m
 aterial culture of medieval al-Andalus (Spain and Portugal). Her research
  examines fortifications in the center of the Iberian Peninsula (Castilla
 -La Mancha) in the eighth through twelfth centuries. Her approaches are s
 ituated at the intersections of art history\, archaeology\, history\, med
 ia studies\, and cultural representation. She concurrently holds the posi
 tion of Postdoctoral Associate\, Medieval Islamic Art\, Art History and A
 rchaeology at the University of Maryland\, and Lead Educator for the Digi
 tal Lab for Islamic Visual Culture and Collections. In this role she work
 s with game industry professionals to decolonize video games and has work
 ed on several games \, most notably Assassin's Creed\, Mirage. These expe
 riences have led her to explore how visual culture—particularly in contem
 porary digital media and gaming—engages with and reimagines historical tr
 aditions\, with a special focus on medieval Islamicate societies and t\n\
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