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Julie Orlemanski (Chicago), 'Fictionality and Belief: Approaching the Middle Ages'

Matthew Evans, University of 糖心TV (Chair: Nathalia Kristensen)

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Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies - Research Seminars

Teams (Term 1) Wednesdays 4pm-5pm

3^rd November 2021 Dr Paolo Ruffino, University of Liverpool [] 

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In this talk, Paolo Ruffino will introduce his research surrounding the labour union IWGB Game Workers, the first and largest union of the UK videogame industry. The videogame sector has been traditionally averse to unionization. Its compulsory network sociality, and the belief that game-work should be passion-driven, limit the expression of discontent and proposals for structural change. Drawing on 2 years of participatory observation and interviews with board members, Ruffino will discuss how the union IWGB Game Workers has been introducing strategies that allow members to be more closely in control of their visibility with bosses and peers, and the implications of union organising in a sector that relies on the promotional cultures of social media.

Paolo Ruffino is Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture (Goldsmiths and MIT Press, 2018), editor of Rethinking Gamification (Meson Press, 2014), and Independent Videogames: Cultures, Networks, Techniques and Politics (Routledge, 2021). His research focuses on independent videogame development, labor unions in the videogame industry, and the emergence of nonhuman and posthuman play in the digital age. Follow @paoloruffino

A seminar with Stella Dadzie (independent scholar), A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and the Enduring Power of Resistance

This is a jointly organised event with the Feminist History Group.

Chair: Laura Schwartz

Respondent: Meleisa Ono George, Associate Prof in Black British History, University of Oxford.

This seminar will grow out of my late 1980s BBC 3 radio programme, 'A Barricade of the Paris Commune'. It was one of a series of six describing and reconstructing a photograph as if it were lost to vision, through words and sounds. This one is concerned with weaving together different strands of my researches into the visual cultures of the end of the Second Empire and the Commune. It is a condensation of archival and literary sources, sounds and musics and my aim in presenting to you is to think through a process of working through archives and their histories as 鈥榝inished history鈥� in order to fabricates an artifact. An artifact that might be composed of different kinds of 鈥榙ispositif鈥� to invent a reliable-enough effect of truth. I want to think of this as having been immersed in currents and counter currents of French literary and historiographical cultures between the 1970s and more recent years, and how this navigation imposed different modes of writing.

Attendees are encouraged to listen to a (13-minute) recording of the radio programme before the seminar: please access the recording via the link below.

Adrian Rifkin

Musical chairs, or one too many mornings: the fiction of the archive