Online Workshop: Confucianism in China, 1587

To provide as many accessible opportunities to our community as possible, online game workshops return in the Fall of 2024! Join us in late October to for an online workshop featuring Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587. We'll gather on Friday evening to set up the game and engage in an "Analect Slam," play through the game over several sessions on Saturday, and debrief and discuss how to use this game in your own classroom Saturday afternoon. Read on for full details, and join us for the first official workshop the Consortium has offered of this game in almost ten years!

CONFUCIANISM AND THE SUCCESSION CRISIS OF THE WANLI EMPEROR, 1587

Set in the Hanlin Academy, participants take the roles of members of the Grand Secretariat, the body of top-ranking graduates of the civil service examination, who serve as advisers to the Wanli emperor. Some are Confucian “purists,” who hold that tradition obliges the emperor to name his first-born son as successor; others maintain that it is within the emperor’s right to choose his successor; and still others, as they decide this matter among many issues confronting the empire, continue to scrutinize the teachings of Confucianism for guidance. The game unfolds amidst the secrecy and intrigue within the walls of the Forbidden City, as scholars struggle to apply Confucian precepts to a dynasty in peril.

PRICING
Become a member (sliding scale for individual membership starts at $25)
$90 for members
$125 for non-members
$0 for funded registrants (see below)

SCHEDULE

(details to come)

Friday, October 25, 7:00-8:30 pm Eastern

Saturday, October 26, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Eastern

FUNDED REGISTRATION FOR DEI ADVANCEMENT  
The Reacting Consortium is committed to fostering a broad and inclusive community by subsidizing participation in all of our programming for instructors who are members of historically underrepresented and marginalized identity groups, and 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 FallConf Spot” by October 1, 2024 and respond, briefly, to the following questions:

GAMEMASTER BIO

Judy Walden is a Professor of History at Simpson College in Indianola, IA, as well as the Division Head of Humanities and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultural Studies. A longtime Reacting instructor, Judy is also authoring several games set in south and east Asia, including on the Hundred Days Reform in China at the abolition of sati in nineteenth-century India.