(Please post to Listserv. Thank you!)<br><br>Dear KS Listserv Members:<br><br>John Duncan and Jennifer Jung-Kim (UCLA) will run a 90-minute micro-game of their Reacting to the Past game, "<font size="2">Korea at the Crossroads of Civilizations: </font><font size="2">Confucianism, Westernization, and the 1894 Kabo Reforms</font><font size="2">"<br>
</font><p> as a meeting-in-conjunction during the AAS-ICAS conference in
Honolulu on Saturday, April 2, 12:00-1:30 pm in Room 302A of the
Hawai'i Convention Center. <br></p><p>Participants will get an overview
of the Reacting to the Past pedagogy and the Kabo game, and then break
out into factions with their individual role assignments for a brief
debate on social reforms. This micro-game is designed to provide an
introduction to professors who wish to consider adapting the game for
classroom use.</p>
<p>The game designers as well as instructors who have used the Kabo game
in their teaching, faculty who have completed a 2-day workshop on
teaching the Kabo game, as well as a former student and Reacting
veterans will be on hand for the post-debate discussion as well.<br>
</p><p>Please note that this is a historical role-playing course where
students read primary sources and secondary scholarship on late-19th
century Korea before launching into debates as historical characters
from the 1894 Kabo games. The game engages the students to make these
issues personal in order to win personal and factional victories.
(It is not a video game, a board game, or a
political science simulation.)<br>
</p><p>The Kabo game is taught as a stand-alone 10-week course at UCLA
but has been adapted to shorter lengths at other schools. The Kabo game
has also been translated into Spanish as well by Prof. Jorge DiMasi and
his team at the University of La Plata in Argentina.<br>
</p>For more info about the Kabo Game, please see:<br><a href="http://reacting.barnard.edu/korea-crossroads-civilizations-confucianism-westernization-and-1894-kabo-reforms" target="_blank">http://reacting.barnard.edu/korea-crossroads-civilizations-confucianism-westernization-and-1894-kabo-reforms</a><br>
<br>“Reacting to the Past” (RTTP) consists of elaborate games, set in
the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by classic texts
in the history of ideas. Class sessions are run entirely by students;
instructors advise and guide students and grade their oral and written
work. It seeks to draw students into the past, promote engagement with
big ideas, and improve intellectual and academic skills. For more info, please visit: <br><a href="http://reacting.barnard.edu/" target="_blank">http://reacting.barnard.edu/</a><br><br>Questions can also be emailed to: John Duncan (<a href="mailto:duncan@humnet.ucla.edu" target="_blank">duncan@humnet.ucla.edu</a>) and Jennifer Jung-Kim (<a href="mailto:jungkim@ucla.edu" target="_blank">jungkim@ucla.edu</a>).<br>
<br>We hope to see many of you at the session. <br><br>Thank you.<br><br>John Duncan & Jennifer Jung-Kim<br>