<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Times New
Roman" size="2">Please post to the Listserv. Thank you!<br><br><br>College faculty and
administrators are invited to register for the tenth
annual “Reacting to the Past” Summer Institute at Barnard College
(NY), June 10-13, 2010. </font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"> <br></font>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">“Reacting
to the Past”
(RTTP) 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. <br></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Participants
will learn about
the curriculum by engaging in intensive two-day workshops on particular
games. This year's workshop features all three Reacting games set in
Asia:</font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><i>Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the
Wanli Emperor </i>by Daniel K. Gardner and Mark C. Carnes;<i><br></i></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><i>Defining
a Nation: India, 1945 </i>by Ainslie T. Embree and Mark C. Carnes; <br>
</font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">and a new game in development, "Korea at the Crossroads of
Civilizations: Confucianism, Westernization,
and the 1894 Kabo Reforms" by John B. Duncan and Jennifer Jung-Kim.</font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">In
addition to game sessions, participants
will have discussions of a more general character on student motivation
and teaching, general education, and the problems
and possibilities of the RTTP approach. <br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The RTTP approach is a
highly effective and engaging teaching method that enables a better
understanding of the nature of history by illuminating contingency and
individual agency as important factors in key moments of historical
change. </span><br>
</font></p><div><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">For further information,
visit <a href="http://www.barnard.edu/reacting/conference/annual" target="_blank">http://www.barnard.edu/reacting/conference/annual</a></font><font size="2"> or email <a href="mailto:reacting@barnard.edu" target="_blank">reacting@barnard.edu</a></font><font size="2">. The
priority registration deadline
is May 10, 2010. <br></font></p>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Times New
Roman" size="2">“Reacting to the Past,”
which has won the Theodore Hesburgh Award (TIAA-CREF) for pedagogical
innovation, has spread to 300 colleges and universities throughout the
world. There are no franchising fees or other pecuniary
considerations.
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