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Join us Friday, February 16, as <em>ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories </em>hosts games studies scholar Aaron Trammell for a talk about his recent book, <em>The Privilege of Play: A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture.</em> The event will be at 2PM EST on the <i>ROMchip</i> Twitch channel, <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal</a>.<br><br></div><div><a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/romchipajournalofgamehistories/1144389" target="_blank">REGISTER HERE</a><br></div><div><br><strong>About the Book</strong><br><em>The Privilege of Play</em> contends that in order to understand geek
identity’s exclusionary tendencies, we need to know the history of the
overwhelmingly white communities of tabletop gaming hobbyists that
preceded it. It begins by looking at how the privileged networks of
model railroad hobbyists in the early twentieth century laid a cultural
foundation for the scenes that would grow up around war games,
role-playing games, and board games in the decades ahead. These early
networks of hobbyists were able to thrive because of how their leisure
interests and professional ambitions overlapped. Yet despite the
personal and professional strides made by individuals in these networks,
the networks themselves remained cloistered and homogeneous—the secret
playgrounds of white men.<br><br><strong>About the Author<br></strong>Aaron Trammell is Assistant Professor of Informatics and Core
Faculty in Visual Studies at University of California, Irvine and author of <em>Repairing Play: A
Black Phenomenology</em>. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal <em>Analog Games
Studies</em> and was an honoree of the hobby game industry’s prestigious
Diana Jones Award.<br><br><strong>About <em>ROMchip</em></strong><em><br>ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories</em> is a free, online scholarly journal for game history. <em>ROMchip </em>develops,
edits, and publishes ad-free, open access game history research for a
range of audiences. It supports any discipline of work enlivening the
history of games in local and global contexts, and embraces diversity in
how game history is studied, documented, collected, preserved, and
practiced. <em>ROM</em><em>c</em><em>hip</em> is a donation-based organization fiscally sponsored by <a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fractured Atlas</a>; to donate to ROMchip, please visit our <a href="https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/romchip-a-journal-of-game-histories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sponsor website</a>. <br></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div>
<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:normal"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:normal"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.lainenooney.com/" target="_blank">Laine Nooney</a></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><span>Assistant Professor | </span><a href="http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/" target="_blank">MCC</a> @ <span><a href="http://www.nyu.edu/" target="_blank">NYU</a> | they/them</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div>-Need to make an appt? Click, don't email: <a href="https://bit.ly/2GIHuK0" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2GIHuK0</a></div><div>-Probably typed by voice recognition, so please cherish typos</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>