Dr. Alexis M. Christensen U of U World Languages & Cultures U of U English Tyler Kynn Central Connecticut State University Ubisoft Montréal The event with be moderated by @mchrislow director of U of U Middle East Center and History @ The U historian. The panel event will run from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in the Gould Auditorium on level 1. University of Utah @uofuevents @uofuhumanities Utah Games

We're excited to hear from Dr. Alexis M. Christensen from @uofulanguages
Alf Seegert & Nathan Wainstein from U of U English
Tyler Kynn from Central Connecticut State University
and Raphaël Weyland from Ubisoft Montréal at the 'Gaming the Middle East' event focusing on history in the gaming industry 🙌 buff.ly/3JfXp11

#Humanities and #gaming have become intrinsically linked.🎮
We've benefitted from #Historical franchises like #AssassinsCreed , #RDR and #Pentiment .🤠

Tyler Kynn explores how we can help build an educational space with the gaming world.
digitalorientalist.com/2024/03/29/vid…
#digitalhumanities

Get ready to embark on a journey with our forthcoming book “The Pilgrims’ Companion: The Khalili Anis al-Hujjaj”. This is a ground-breaking new translation of the Anis al-Hujjaj, with an introduction by Qaisra M. Khan & translated by Michael Burns.

#newbooks

of interest — Ottoman Plovdiv serves as a dedicated platform to facilitate public accessibility to spatial data, visual artifacts, and primary documents pertinent to the history of Plovdiv, also known as Filibe during the Ottoman era.

ottomanplovdiv.org/visualizations/

Happy to share that we got an interdisciplinary Game Studies Minor approved by the campus Curriculum Committee for CCSU! Excited to help build it out as a minor as it moves forward, and also for the extra time to work on my own game after weeks of rewriting the proposal!

Update 2 for learning Unity/ink/Inkscape- finally getting to the point where I can start adding simple narratives for the Seyahat demo (essentially Hajj Trail 2.0)

Another reminder if you know anyone interested - our department's TT job posting is up on H-Net [World Pre-1500 + Europe/Mediterranean]- please email me if you have any questions h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…
VALUE Historical Games Network History Respawned

The December 2023 issue of #ReviewsInDH , edited by Dr. Jennifer Guiliano & me is out. This is part II of our special issue on the 2023 Global DH Symposium, guest edited by Heather F. Ball, Viola Lasmana, Kristen Mapes, Ysabel Muñoz Martinez, and Merve Tekgürler! reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v4-n12

Thanks to Merve for taking the time to do the review!

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe is out in the world today!
The book examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. ->
Stanford Press

Our TT job posting is up on H-Net - please email me if you have any questions h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…

*^* HIRING
FT TT Assist Prof World Hist before 1500. Scholar of ancient or medieval world work focuses on Eur or Mediterr.
In addition to strong scholarship, prefer qualif experience in 7-12 for dept service in support of social studies coord CCSU Social Studies Program
higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?Jo…

Here is the better link to our department's job posting: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37568503/-…

Dr Tyler Kynn unearths the history of the Mughal community in Ottoman Jerusalem in today's brand new blog post, 'The Mughals of Ottoman Jerusalem' memorients.com/articles/the-m…