The Richard Foltz evening. Game studies.
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Posted on July 15, 2016
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- Richard Foltz, professor in the Department of Religion, is featured on the cover of Canadian Persian-language weekly, Hafteh. The cover story is a write-up of the "Evening in honour of Richard Foltz," organized by Bukhara magazine in Tehran last May 31, where seven Iranian and foreign scholars spoke about his work, and his recent book, Iran in World History (Oxford University Press, 2016).
- Kill Screen covers Game Studies, a new video game developed by Jonathan Lessard, assistant professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, and Pippin Barr, visiting scholar in residence in the Faculty of Fine Arts, that calls some of gaming academia’s most prominent truisms into question.