Dear all, We won’t have an IMS seminar next week, but on Thursday we have another talk from our Media Impact series titled “Virtually Alive: How Video Games Make Evolution Playable” with Péter Makai, former post doc at IMS. Description: Video and board games turn evolution into a playable experience. Which strategies are used for making the science of evolution fun? And how does player interaction change the dynamic of evolution? Become wiser on these questions together with Péter Kristóf Makai, in our second talk in the Media Impact series. Peter Makai recently finished his Crafoord Postdoctoral Fellowship at Linnaeus Unversity Centre of Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. He is currently a KWI International Fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen's Cultural Studies Institute, studying how theme parks are transmediated into digital and board games. He has published work on Tolkien, games and worldbuilding in Reconstructing Arda, Tolkien Studies, and in Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales. The talk is on June 17, 15.30-16.00 CEST (15 minutes talk, 15 minutes for Q/A). Register on our Swedish webpage (for English speakers: scroll down to the form, fill in your name and email (called e-post in Swedish) in the two boxes, and click the box 'övrigt' if you are not associated with LNU. Finally, click the GDPR box to allow the university to use your name and email to send you information about the event): https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/aktuellt/kalender/2021/media-impact--… You can find all the information about the series and upcoming talks on our website:https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-intermedial-and-multimodal-studies/ Hope to see many of you there. Best wishes, Signe – on behalf of IMS IMS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LNU.IMS IMS public email list: https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/publik.ims IMS website: https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/linnaeus-university-centre-for-in… Signe Kjaer Jensen PhD student in Comparative Literature Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) Linnæus University Department of Film and Literature 351 95 Växjö Sweden https://lnu.se/personal/signe.kjaerjensen/ signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se<mailto:signe.kjaerjensen at lnu.se>