Allison Johnson presents tonight!

Having seen multiple versions of this presentation (drafts, class, and at a conference), I can tell you that you'll be sorry if you miss tonight's Honors Colloquium. Allison's work is a wonderful mix of emotionally powerful content treated with empathetic carefulness in a work that does not skimp on heavy intellectual lifting.

Attend tonight’s University Honors Colloquium! “That Dragon, Cancer: Traces of Loss, Life and Language” will be the focus of a Texas A&M University-Texarkana Honors Colloquium today at 6 p.m. in University Center 217. Honors student Allison Johnson will present her work, which examines the indie video game, That Dragon, Cancer, through Derrida’s theory of trace. The game, created by Ryan and Amy Green, is meant to document their son’s life and his struggle with terminal cancer. While that is the purpose of That Dragon, Cancer to the Greens, other players of the game have responded to it in diverse ways and found other meanings in the story. According to Derrida’s concept of trace, this is because the players are bringing their past experiences with cancer into their current experience with it, and that is shaping it differently for each one.