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HASTAC 2016

Cody Mejeur

Michigan State University
PhD Student/Graduate Instructor
Lansing, Michigan

Cody is a PhD student in the English department at Michigan State University. His work focuses on game narrative, including narrative theory and game studies. He also works in the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition lab in MSU's English department. He currently teaches both at MSU and Ivy Tech Community College, with courses in World Literature, English Composition, and Technical Writing. He was recently a recipient of the Somers Excellence in Teaching award, and his work was recently presented at the International Conference on Narrative and Replaying Japan 2015.

8:00am MST

Conference Registration COOR

9:00am MST

Keynote: Gary Dirks, "Solutions, scale, and sustainability: how humanities, arts, and social science can determine the future of well being" COOR 170

10:15am MST

Coffee Service COOR

10:30am MST

Migration, the Refugee crisis and Video Games for Change COOR 195

10:45am MST

Speculative Practices as Critical Making: Designing Rituals, Situations, and other Tangible Imaginaries COOR 195

11:00am MST

Critical (of) Games in an Art School Context, a Narrative Case Study COOR 195

11:15am MST

Critical and Collaborative Digital Ethnography: Studying Social Surveillance and the Marginalization of Black Girls on YouTube COOR 195

1:00pm MST

Scholarly Communication and Collaboration Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Building Humanities Commons COOR 186

2:30pm MST

Speculative Classroom Design: What’s Your University Worth Fighting For? COOR 195

4:15pm MST

Identity & Representation in Student Documentaries: Stories of Concern and Hope COOR L1-84

4:30pm MST

Softwares, Histories, Memories and Archives COOR L1-84

5:30pm MST

Evening Reception with Slate Magazine and the Center for Science and Imagination BAC 116

8:00am MST

Continental Breakfast COOR

9:00am MST

Keynote "Experience Architecture: How the Humanities Goes to Work" COOR 170

10:45am MST

Postmortem: critical reflection and creative lessons learned from creating an essay in VR about VR. COOR L1-84

11:00am MST

Design for Neurodiversity (DfN): A “Design for X” Process for Alternative Cognitive Styles COOR 186 Lunch Buffet COOR

1:00pm MST

ADAPTability of games to teach digital literacy COOR L1-84 Eventuality: Imagining a Future for the Humanities Through Collaborative Storytelling COOR L1-18

2:30pm MST

Teaching Intersectionality through Critical Game Design COOR 195

4:00pm MST

Narratives, Storytelling, and Audience in the Age of the Podcast COOR L1-84