2022 Winter Conference

2022 WINTER CONFERENCE
Bold Design, Brave Students

The 6th Annual Reacting Winter Conference, hosted by the University of Georgia Reacting to the Past Program, will be held from January 14-16, 2022. In response to community feedback, the conference will be a remote event, allowing you to attend from anywhere through Zoom. Our theme for this year's conference is "Bold Design, Brave Students" and will focus on the opportunities that the pandemic has given Reacting faculty and students, rather than what it has taken away. Our goal is to provide a conference that will rejuvenate and encourage faculty in their pursuit of active learning through Reacting to the Past!

Full details on the conference page. 

PROGRAMMING

COURSE DESIGN WORKSHOP
Reacting with the Archives: Bold Design, Brave Faculty
This workshop will walk faculty through inclusive course design principles for using Reacting games to meet course objectives and demonstrate how to incorporate archival material (both what may be available in their own campus’ archival collections and what they can find in digital archive collections that are open to the public) to enhance game play.

GAME WORKSHOP
The Reacting pedagogy is best understood by experiencing as students do, albeit in abbreviated versions. This game workshop provides a condensed gameplay experience, broad context for the simulation and mechanics, and include post-game guidance on how to use it in your own classroom.

Participants will be sent a gamebook outlining the topics and debates of a historical moment, as well as a detailed a role sheet for a historical actor in those debates. Participants prepare and engage as that historical actor, making arguments and forging alliances to achieve specific Victory Objectives. You need not be a specialist to play (or run) a Reacting game, but you should plan on doing some preparatory reading. Games offered:

• The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204: The Fourth Crusade 
• Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-76*
• London 1854: Cesspits, Cholera, and Conflict over the Broad Street Pump
• Democracy in Crisis, Weimar Germany, 1929-32
• Watergate, 1973-74

*Recommended for newcomers

KEYNOTE PLENARY
For this year’s Winter Conference, we are looking to turn our keynote address over to the Reacting community! Reacting faculty are agile and resilient—two qualities very much in demand during a pandemic—so we want to hear from you about how Reacting to the Past has helped you adapt and thrive in the midst of unprecedented challenges and uncertainty over the past year. Submit a video recording sharing with us how Reacting to the Past has enriched your teaching during the pandemic. We will select up to eight of you to share your experiences and ideas at the Winter Conference AND we will give you a  discount on your registration fee for a future Reacting event.

If you are interested in being considered as one of our keynote speakers, then take the following steps:

SCHEDULE (ALL TIMES EASTERN)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 14 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15

SUNDAY, JANUARY 16

PRICING

Become a member to save money on your registration! Individual memberships start at just $25. 

FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION $100-200

FUNDED REGISTRATION FOR DEI ADVANCEMENT $0
The Reacting Consortium is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging. We have funded registration for instructors who are members of historically underrepresented and marginalized identity groups, and/or for those teaching at minority-serving institutions (HBCUs, Tribal colleges and universities, AAPI and Hispanic-serving institutions). If you are interested in applying for one of these spots, please send an email to reacting@barnard.edu with the subject line “Funded WC Spot” by November 1. Approved applicants will be able to register for free. Please apply and share with colleagues.

WORKSHOP-ONLY REGISTRATION $50
Instructors wishing to attend only the Inclusive Course Design Workshop "Reacting with the Archives: Bold Design, Brave Faculty" workshop on Friday can register for only that workshop. These registrants cannot observe or participate in the game workshop. 

Begin your registration.

The Reacting Consortium Board, in its sole and absolute discretion, reserves the right to bar any person from the Reacting Faculty Lounge on Facebook and from participation in any Reacting Consortium event.