Arts & Sciences

Karen M. Gravel, Lord Aeck Sargent Planning and Design, Inc. is a historic preservation architect practicing in Atlanta. She serves as a principal, the Director of Historic Preservation and chair of the governing board for the company. She is a Kentucky native, having graduated with a degree in History from Centre College in Danville, KY, in 1993, before earning a Master of Architecture from Georgia Tech in 1999. She has been working on old buildings for the past 25 years, including...

Are you interested in pursuing a career that will allow you to travel the world, creating positive change?Come, learn more about International Affairs Scholarships. Awards discussed will be the Rangel, Pickering and Payne Fellowships, which fund graduate school in international affairs, as well as the Boren and Critical Language Scholarships, which fund study abroad.

In this lecture, Dr. Zulkarnain will discuss the emergence of video game culture in Indonesia under the New Order regime by focusing on two case studies: the introduction of Atari as a new form of entertainment medium and the popularity of dingdong, a local term for video arcades in the country. From gleaning print media and advertisement coverage of both Atari and dingdong, Zulkarnain will demonstrate that the introduction of these two gaming playscapes to the Indonesian public represents...