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2023 Annual Institute

  • June 07, 2023
  • 5:00 PM
  • June 11, 2023
  • 2:00 PM
  • Barnard College, New York City

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:
  • The Provost's Office has agreed to pay for five BC faculty/staff members to participate in the 2023 Annual Insitute. Interest members of the Barnard community should contact jworth@barnard.edu for more information and the code to register.
  • For members (individual or institutional) of the Reacting Consortium, who sign up by March 15
  • For members of the Reacting Consortium sign up on or after May 1.
  • For Reacting Consortium members who register between March 16 and April 30.
  • Please contact Jenn Worth if you do not have the registration code.
  • For confirmed graduate students registering through March 15, 2023.
  • For instructors who are not yet members of the Reacting Consortium who sign up on or after May 1.
  • DEI Advancement Grant-funded registration. See the details on our event page, and email reacting@barnard.edu by May 1 to apply.

Registration is closed



Our flagship event returns, live and in person, to Barnard College!  From June 8-11, 2023, we'll meet in New York for the first time since 2019, and we hope you'll join us.  


Much has changed since we last convened on our home campus, and accordingly, the theme for this year is "Reacting to Our New Realities," and our non-game pedagogy sessions will build on our recent Winter Conference workshop topic--"From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs"-- by focusing on the challenges that we're facing in the larger educational landscape: student (un)preparedness, the proliferation of AI technology, the changing demographics and demands in higher education, and how best to support each other and our students in our learning.

Another new reality is that the Consortium is now formally supporting use of RTTP by secondary instructors, and so this June we'll be offering HS-focused working sessions, as well as games recommended for secondary students.


COVID POLICY

We strong encourage, but do not require, masking. However, to ensure safety for the wider campus community, all summer participants are requested to meet Barnard College’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement, which means that they are fully vaccinated and boosted. Complete information on Barnard's COVID policies can be found here.


We will be offering grab-and-go meals for those who wish to reduce their exposure to others by eating outside; please let us know if you would like this option when you register.


PROGRAMMING


GAME WORKSHOPS

The Reacting pedagogy is best understood by experiencing as students do, albeit in abbreviated versions. This game workshop provides a condensed gameplay experience over two days, 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 for each game, outlining the topics and debates of a historical moment, as well as a detailed role sheets 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.


We are pleased to offer nine different games this year, including:

In lieu of a tenth game, we'll be offering an intensive workshop for our newcomers (piloted last June at CU-Boulder) that will better prepare them to launch a Reacting game in the coming academic year. 

WORKING GROUPS

This summer, we're what used to be known as "concurrent sessions" where people presented their Reacting-related work to their peers, is being replaced with a set of working groups tasked with grappling with a problem facing the larger community, including  post-pandemic learning loss, artificial intelligence programs like Chat GPT, and RTTP in/and Honors.  Of special note is a working group dedicated to Reacting at the high school level. We're excited to meet our secondary education community, and are grateful for the grant-funded team from Grand Valley State University for leading the charge.


KEYNOTE PLENARY

Our plenary speaker this year is anthropologist Zoe Antoinette Eddy of Harvard University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, who studies, among other things, LARPing and cultural appropriation. Her presentation, "Playing at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in New England Larp," will discuss how marginalized subjects reclaim creative space  within live-action roleplaying contexts.

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE 

(ALL TIMES EASTERN & SUBJECT TO CHANGE)


WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7
 

4:00-10:00 PM         

 DORMS OPEN FOR CHECK IN                         

7:00-9:00 PM   

 WELCOME RECEPTION


THURSDAY, JUNE 8

8:00-9:00 AM 

BREAKFAST AND WELCOMING PLENARY 

9:00-10:00 AM MICROGAME/ORIENTATION ACTIVITY
10:15 AM-12:00 PM GAME 1 - SESSION A
12:15-1:15 PM LUNCH 
 1:30-3:00 PM GAME 1 - SESSION B
3:15-4:30 PM WORKING GROUPS
4:30-5:30 PM GAME 1 - COLLABORATION TIME
5:30 - 6:30 PM RECEPTION


FRIDAY, JUNE 9

8:00-9:00 AM    

BREAKFAST                                                                           

9:00-11:00 AM            

GAME 1 - SESSION C

11:00 - 11:30 AM

COFFEE/ SNACK BREAK 

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

GAME 1 - SESSION D


SATURDAY, JUNE 10 

8:00-9:00 AM BREAKFAST 
9:00-10:00 AM MICROGAME/PLAYTEST ACTIVITY                                
10:15 AM-12:00 PM        GAME 2 - SESSION A
12:15-1:30 PM LUNCH & KEYNOTE ADDRESS                                           
 1:30-3:00 PM GAME 2 - SESSION B 
3:15-4:45 PM WORKING GROUPS
4:45-5:45 PM GAME 2 - COLLABORATION TIME                                   



SUNDAY, JUNE 11

8:00-9:00 PM  BREAKFAST
9:00-10:30 AM GAME 2 - SESSION C
10:30-11:00 AM COFFEE/ SNACK BREAK 
11:00 AM-12:30 PM GAME 2 - SESSION D
12:30 -1:00 PM CLOSING PLENARY

PRICING

   Early Bird  
Feb 1-Mar 15
 Regular  
Mar 15-Apr 30
 Late
May 1-Jun 5
 Consortium Member    $550  $600

 $650

 Non-Member  $675  $725  $775




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

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 AI Spot” by May 1. Approved applicants will be able to register for free , but housing will not be included.  Please apply and share with colleagues!

HOUSING

This year, we have approximately 100 residence hall rooms available in Sulzberger Tower for our conference participants; 85 singles can be booked at a rate of $100/night; and 14 double rooms at a rate of $65/night. Basic linens will be provided.  Reservations are available only for the nights of June 7-10, and all participants must be checked out by 2pm on June 11.

Registration is open now!

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