<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 15.6pt;line-height:18.75pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Join us TOMORROW, Nov 21, as <em style="outline:0px"><a href="https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;outline:0px">ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories</a> </em>hosts</span><span style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px"> scholar TreaAndrea M. Russworm for a talk titled "Utopian Funk: Playing and Breaking The Sims in Dark Times."</span><em style="border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-size:15px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(74,74,74)"></em><span style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px"> The event will be at 2PM ET on the </span><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(74,74,74);border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-size:15px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">ROMchip Twitch channel</a><span style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px">. Sign up for </span><a href="https://romchip.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=27c1594af9abf2dc80455091b&id=caaf5790a7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(74,74,74);border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;font-size:15px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">our newsletter</a><span style="color:rgb(74,74,74);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px"> to never miss an update.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 15.6pt;line-height:18.75pt;word-break:break-word;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;outline:0px"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Head to <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;outline:0px">https://www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal</a> join the talk @ 2PM.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 15.6pt;line-height:18.75pt;word-break:break-word;outline:0px"><strong style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;outline:0px"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto">About the Talk</span></strong><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto"><br style="outline:0px"></span></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(74,74,74)">This talk explores how Black arts traditions—like funk music, speculative fiction, and televisual forms—intersect with video game histories and player practices to chart what Russworm frames as “utopian funk.” Focusing on The Sims and Black player communities, the talk will examine how games become sites of both speculative possibility and structural failure, revealing how utopian impulses and broken systems coexist as generative spaces for cultural production and critique.</span><br style="outline:0px"><br style="outline:0px"><span style="outline:0px"><b style="font-family:Roboto;font-size:11.5pt">About the Speaker</b><font face="Roboto"><span style="font-size:15.3333px"><b><br></b></span></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> (she/her/hers) is a Professor in the Interactive Media & Games Division at the University of Southern California and a Series Editor of </span><em style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture </em><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(Duke University Press). She teaches courses on video games, digital culture, and popular media like film, television, and streaming platforms. She is also the director of the Radical Play Game Design Lab, an Associate Editor for Outreach and Equity for the </span><em style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Journal of Cinema and Media Studies</em><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, and she has appeared in popular media venues like CNN.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 15.6pt;line-height:18.75pt;word-break:break-word;outline:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">A prolific writer and editor on film, television, games, and other media, Professor Russworm has published widely, including the books </span><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">; </span><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Blackness is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">; and </span><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry. </em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">She is currently working on three new books on race and gaming cultures.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;line-height:18.75pt;word-break:break-word;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;outline:0px"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto"><strong style="outline:0px">About </strong><em style="outline:0px"><b>ROMchip</b></em><b><i><br style="outline:0px"></i></b><em style="outline:0px"><a href="https://www.romchip.org/" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;outline:0px">ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories</a></em> is a free, online scholarly journal for game history. <em style="outline:0px">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 style="outline:0px">ROMchip</em> is a donation-based organization fiscally sponsored by <a href="https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/" target="_blank" style="color:inherit;outline:0px">The Hack Foundation</a> (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499).</span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;line-height:18.75pt;word-break:break-word;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;outline:0px"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto">---</span></p></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">Associate Professor |  <a href="http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/" target="_blank">MCC</a> @ <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/" target="_blank">NYU</a>  | they/them<br>Managing Editor  |  <a href="https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal" target="_blank">ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories</a>  |  <a href="http://eepurl.com/crCul1" target="_blank">Join our Newsletter</a></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://calendar.app.google/V9ZuMRWEKnnUBdQ56" target="_blank">https://calendar.app.google/V9ZuMRWEKnnUBdQ56</a></div><div>-Probably typed by voice recognition, so please cherish typos</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>