{"id":49,"date":"2014-10-28T18:10:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T00:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2015-01-14T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T20:53:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/about","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the website for HSTR 491: Games, Play, and History at Montana State University, a spring 2015 history seminar. We have two primary goals, among others, for this course.<\/p>\n<p>The first is to build a better understanding of the role of games and play in cultures and societies across time and space. From chess to martial arts\u00a0to\u00a0<em>World of Warcraft<\/em> and e-sports, we will be exploring the range of meanings games and playful activities have had, and how they reflect specific historical moments.<\/p>\n<p>The second is to develop, or enhance, our ability to write about cultural products (particularly objects that are often\u00a0consumed passively, and not discussed critically) in a thoughtful, nuanced way. Our springboard will be\u00a0a wide variety of scholarship drawn from several disciplines; the goal is to use these approaches in pursuing our own interests.<\/p>\n<p>For inquiries regarding the course or this site, please contact Dr. Maggie Greene (margaret.greene1 [at] montana [dot] edu)<\/p>\n<p>Header images are pulled from the Freer &amp; Sackler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asia.si.edu\/collections\/edan\/default.cfm\">&#8220;Open F|S&#8221;<\/a> project, as well as\u00a0<em>Asian Games: The Art of Contest<\/em>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<em>The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board &amp; Table Games<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the website for HSTR 491: Games, Play, and History at Montana State University, a spring 2015 history seminar. We have two primary goals, among others, for this course. The first is to build a better understanding of the role of games and play in cultures and societies across time and space. From chess&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/about\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sintellectual.org\/hstr491\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}