The "Reacting to the Past" Consortium sponsors both a national meeting (Barnard College) and several regional faculty conferences throughout the academic year. At the conferences, faculty and administrators learn about the curriculum by participating in intensive workshops featuring "Reacting" games. In addition to game sessions, plenary and concurrent sessions allow participants to engage in discussions of a more general character on student motivation, teaching, liberal arts education, and the problems and possibilities of the “Reacting” pedagogy. Click on the links at the left for more information on each event.
Annual Institute at Barnard College
The 12th Annual Institute will be held June 7-10, 2012 at Barnard College in New York, NY. Visit the institute page for program and registration details.
Upcoming Regional Events
March 2-4, 2012: Regional Faculty Conference at Georgia College (Milledgeville, GA) | Co-sponsored with the University of Georgia, the program will feature two games: Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman (in development) and Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-76 (published).
July 19-21, 2012: RTTP Game Development Conference (Mt. Pleasant, MI) | Sponsored by Central Michigan University, this will be the first conference devoted to designing games for the pedagogical method "Reacting to the Past". Participants will play two Reacting-style games that are currently in development, discuss game design principles and processes, and work to expand and explore ideas for new games. Call for proposals.
July 29-30, 2012: RTTP Workshops at 2012 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (University Park, PA) | Professors Susan and David Henderson will be conducting two 3-hour workshops featuring RTTP at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE). Each workshop will play one short science game. The Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) is the largest gathering of chemistry educators in the world which brings together more than 1,000 teachers committed to inspiring tomorrow's leaders in the sciences.
