{"id":1624,"date":"2019-04-13T22:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/?page_id=1624"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:08:47","slug":"are-you-game","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/past-events\/are-you-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Game? A Look at the History of Gaming Across Time and Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page features archival information from select Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum talks in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1437,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1624","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":[{"acf_fc_layout":"two_columns","heading":"","column_1":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1625 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/AreYouGame_POSTER-PRINTREADY-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Image of an ancient Egyptian painting of the game senet, information about the event\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/AreYouGame_POSTER-PRINTREADY-scaled.jpg?resize=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 663w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/AreYouGame_POSTER-PRINTREADY-scaled.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/AreYouGame_POSTER-PRINTREADY-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1187&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/AreYouGame_POSTER-PRINTREADY-scaled.jpg?resize=994%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 994w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/AreYouGame_POSTER-PRINTREADY-scaled.jpg?resize=1325%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1325w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/AreYouGame_POSTER-PRINTREADY-scaled.jpg?w=1656&amp;ssl=1 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n","column_2":"<h2><strong>Panel, &#8220;Are you Game? A Look at the History of Gaming Across Time and Cultures?&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>September 28, 2016<br \/>\n7:00-9:00 p.m.<br \/>\nEastview Campus 8500<\/p>\n<p>Participants<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kerri Pope, Humanities Professor<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Desiree Leistiko, Humanities Professor<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sarah Lynne Bowman, Humanities Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moderator<br \/>\n<strong>Matt Watkins, Philosophy Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the emergence of video games is a recent cultural phenomenon, game play has been essential to the human experience throughout the ages. We play to learn, to socialize, to better understand ourselves and to better understand others. This panel discussion will explore the role of games in humanity, from the advent of ancient board games to the new frontier of virtual reality RPGs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Return to the main page for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/past-events\/\">past events<\/a>\u00a0from the Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities Forum.<\/em><\/p>\n","background":"Color","background_color":"#FFFFFF","background_gradient":{"gradient_start":"","gradient_end":""},"background_image":false,"text_mode":"dark","id":""}],"hero_content":false,"sidekick":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1624\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberalarts.austincc.edu\/philosophy-religion-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}