In this lecture, Glaire Anderson will be discussing her work, which bridges video games, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) and academic sectors. She will discuss how her recent experiences as a games industry consultant and collaborator, as a speaker at #GDC2024 and as an academic game developer and entrepreneur engages with ongoing debates about historical and cultural representations in games, and the positive social impact of games.
Dr. Glaire Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and Founding Director and Principal Consultant of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections. Her second book A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of Abbas Ibn Firnas (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines early Islamic science and visual culture through the career of a 9th c. Cordoban intellectual remembered today for an early aeronautics experiment. Applying immersive 3D digital technologies to the work of Islamic art and architectural history is a longstanding focus of Anderson's research, and she was an external historian and art/architecture historian on Ubisoft's Assassin’s Creed Mirage and its ‘History of Baghdad’ educational Codex feature (Ubisoft Bordeaux, 2023).
This event will be held at the Aga Khan Centre - London and will also be streamed live via Zoom.
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 and academic sectors. She will discuss how her recent experiences as a games industry consultant and collaborator, as a speaker at #GDC2024 and as an academic game developer and entrepreneur engages with ongoing debates about historical and cultural representations in games, and the positive social impact of games.Dr. Glaire Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and Founding Director and Principal Consultant of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections. Her second book A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of Abbas Ibn Firnas (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines early Islamic science and visual culture through the career of a 9th c. Cordoban intellectual remembered today for an early aeronautics experiment. Applying immersive 3D digital technologies to the work of Islamic art and architectural history is a longstanding focus of Anderson's research, and she was an external historian and art/architecture historian on Ubisoft's Assassin’s Creed Mirage and its ‘History of Baghdad’ educational Codex feature (Ubisoft Bordeaux, 2023).This event will be held at the Aga Khan Centre - London and will also be streamed live via Zoom. Attendance is free, but registration is necessary. Please register by clicking on one of the links below.February 18, 2026London, United KingdomInstitute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations12:00 PM - 1:30 PM &source=https://dmluoj0wft2i7.cloudfront.net/thumbnails/media_slide_16x9/cdn/images/6978ece3d68bf.jpg "LinkedIn")
 and academic sectors. She will discuss how her recent experiences as a games industry consultant and collaborator, as a speaker at #GDC2024 and as an academic game developer and entrepreneur engages with ongoing debates about historical and cultural representations in games, and the positive social impact of games.Dr. Glaire Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and Founding Director and Principal Consultant of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections. Her second book A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of Abbas Ibn Firnas (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines early Islamic science and visual culture through the career of a 9th c. Cordoban intellectual remembered today for an early aeronautics experiment. Applying immersive 3D digital technologies to the work of Islamic art and architectural history is a longstanding focus of Anderson's research, and she was an external historian and art/architecture historian on Ubisoft's Assassin’s Creed Mirage and its ‘History of Baghdad’ educational Codex feature (Ubisoft Bordeaux, 2023).This event will be held at the Aga Khan Centre - London and will also be streamed live via Zoom. Attendance is free, but registration is necessary. Please register by clicking on one of the links below.February 18, 2026London, United KingdomInstitute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations12:00 PM - 1:30 PM "Facebook")