Title: "Stranger in a Strange Land: What's a Historian Doing Leading University-Business Partnerships?"

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Kee

Date: Monday, September 22

Time: 12pm

Location: RRCHNM, Research Hall, Room 470

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Speaker Biography:

Dr. Kevin Kee is the Associate Vice-President Research (Social Sciences and Humanities) and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities at Brock University. Previously, he was a Director and Project Director at the  National Film Board of Canada, and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History, and Integrated Studies in Education (D.I.S.E.), as well as the Director of Undergraduate Programs (D.I.S.E) at McGill University.

Kee has led or helped lead the development and establishment of business incubators and generators (the Niagara Interactive Media Generator (now the Niagara Interactive Media Generator-Generator at One)), undergraduate programs (the Interactive Arts and Sciences minor and major programs), conference and symposia series (the Interacting with Immersive Worlds Conferences), and research projects (such as Pastplay).

Kee uses computing to analyze and express culture in general, and history in particular. His research lies at the intersection of history, computing, education, and game studies.

Many of his research projects (such as the Ontario Augmented Reality Network) develop and support university to public- and private-sector technology transfers and partnerships. Kee created a corporation so that he could train budding interactive media entrepreneurs, and their projects (such as Niagara 1812), have been supported by the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Ontario Media Development Corporation, and Ontario Trillium Foundation). Together with his team Kee has produced history Web sites, games and simulations.

Kee has published books and articles on the use of computer simulations for history and history teaching and learning, and on Canadian cultural history. He is also a winner of a 2012 Brock University Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.