Fourteenth Annual Reacting to the Past Institute, Jun 5-8

College faculty and administrators are invited to register for the fourteenth annual “Reacting to the Past” Institute hosted by Barnard College (NY), June 5-8, 2014.

 “Reacting to the Past” consists of elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles with “victory objectives” informed by seminal texts in the history of ideas.  Reacting was honored with the 2004 Theodore Hesburgh Award (funded by TIAA-CREF) as the nation’s outstanding pedagogical innovation in undergraduate teaching and learning. It has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times, and elsewhere.  

 Participants will learn about this innovative pedagogical approach by engaging in intensive two-day game workshops.  Offerings include:

 American History

• Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-76
• America's Founding: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
• Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman

 World History/World Civilizations

• The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C.
• Beware the Ides of March: Rome, 44 B.C.E
• Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587
• Stages of Power: Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592
• Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791
• Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945
• The Needs of Others: Human Rights, International Organizations and Intervention in Rwanda, 1994

 STEM Education / History of Science:

• The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the "New Cosmology," and the Catholic Church
• Chemistry at Karlsruhe, 1860
• Climate Change in Copenhagen, 2009

The institute program also includes a series of concurrent sessions where faculty participants engage in discussions about active-learning pedagogy, course development, and liberal arts education more generally. This year's Keynote speakers are Jose Bowen and Judith Shapiro. 

For further information, visit https://reacting.barnard.edu/2014-institute or email reacting@barnard.edu.  The priority registration deadline is April 30, 2014, but will remain open until all spots are filled. 

Madalena Provo Membership and Outreach Coordinator Reacting to the Past Barnard College | 3009 Broadway | New York, NY 10027 Phone: 212.851.2112 Email: mprovo@barnard.edu Visit the website at http://https://reacting.barnard.edu/2014-institute