Spring Online Workshop: The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204: The Fourth Crusade

To provide as many accessible opportunities to our community as possible, we're regularly offering online game workshops Join us on February 21-22 for an online workshop featuring The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204: The Fourth Crusade. We'll gather on Friday evening to set up the game and have preliminary faction meetings, 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 virtual run of this award-winning game!

THE REMAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD, 1204: THE FOURTH CRUSADE

The Fourth Crusade invites students to understands one of the greatest medieval atrocities, the sack of the Constantinople by a crusader army, and the subsequent reshaping of the Byzantine Empire. The game includes debates on issues such as "just war" and the nature of crusading, feudalism, trade rights, and the relationship between secular and religious authority. It likewise explores the theological issues at the heart of the East-West Schism and the development of constitutional states in the era of Magna Carta. The game also includes a "choose-your-own adventure" mechanic during the siege and sack of Constantinople, where individual students’ actions shape the fate of the crusade for everyone.

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, March 21, 7:00-8:30 pm Eastern

Saturday, March 22, 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 Spring Conf Spot” by March 1, 2025 and respond, briefly, to the following questions:

• How do/es you/your campus/your student body qualify for a DEI-focused initiative?
• What are the classes and games you might use on your campus, and to what ends? (They need not be those offered at the event you would like to attend).
• What is your experience (if any) with RTTP, or other games-for-learning?

GAMEMASTER BIO

Kyle C. Lincoln is Assistant Professor of Pre-Modern European History and Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Office of Study Abroad at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. He co-authored, with John Giebfried, Remaking the Medieval World: 1204, the Fourth Crusade, for which he was awarded the 2021 Brilliancy Prize, and is actively (co-)developing simulations on Bronze Age Greece (with Mary Beth Arendash), the Investiture Controversy (with Matt Parker and Andrew Larsen) and (as sole author) the Conquest of Granada in 1492. His most recent research book is A Constellation of Authority: Castilian Bishops and the Secular Church during the Reign of Alfonso VIII with Penn State University Press.