SIG Event: Soraya Murray on Gender, Race, and Landscape in Video Games

We invite you to join a conversation with Dr. Soraya Murray an Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, to talk about the influence of gender and racial representations in video games. Her work focuses on contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in art, cultural studies, film and video games. Her most recent work, “’In this game that we’re playing,’” a chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four, she explores the traces and influence of Orwell’s critique of totalitarian society within video games. Murray is currently co-editing an anthology on antiracist futures in video games and play, and a single-author book on technological imaginaries in contemporary film and visual culture.

Dr. Murray is also the author of On Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space, which considers how modern video games both mirror and are constitutive of larger societal fears, dreams, hopes and even complex struggles for recognition. 

She’ll present her work on a soon to be released game Raji: An Ancient Epic (game trailer: https://youtu.be/s6GWknvdAvk?si=9zEFHnqCAsnjhT-J) on a Zoom call Wednesday November 8th at 3:30 p.m. We’ll present the call in person in LA2-120 or you can join us on Zoom: https://csulb.zoom.us/j/84238330762 More details in the flyer attached. Please share with interested students or those outside of our CLA community. 

The talk is co-sponsored by the History Department, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies and Comparative Literature.