2025 Summer Institute

Our 25th annual flagship event returns to Barnard College where we'll meet for pedagogy-packed days in New York, and we hope you'll join us. We share a minimal overview below. For full event details, including lodging, FAQs, and more, visit our Summer Institute page. Email jworth@barnard.edu for registration codes to register at the grad student, staff, or special funded rates. 

PROGRAM

THURSDAY-FRIDAY GAME WORKSHOPS
Full-length games played over four sessions

• Ashoka: Becoming the Dharma King
• Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty
• Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1862-1864
• Radical Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1868-1876
• The Second Spanish Republic, 1931-1939

• Conclave 1492: The Election of a Renaissance Pope
• The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
• A "Virtuous Woman"? The Abolition of Sati, India 1829
• Cholera at the Pump: Contagionism, Miasma Theory, and Sanitation
• Newbie Workshop

We suggest that newcomers to Reacting opt for our "Newbie Workshop" to best prepare you to run your own first game.

PRICING

*These rates, while not in reach of all people, are below cost; higher rates for non-members subsidize participation for faculty-in-training. Become a member and save money on your registration! Individual memberships start at just $25. 

FUNDED REGISTRATION FOR DEI ADVANCEMENT 
The Reacting Consortium offers funded registration for instructors who are members of historically underrepresented and marginalized identity groups, and/or those teaching at minority-serving institutions. Applications have now closed for this year's Institute. Please apply for future events. 

HOUSING
Beds in Sulzberger Tower can be booked at a rate of $95/night, with basic linens provided.  Reservations are available only for the nights of June 4-7. Check-in begins at 4:30pm on Wednesday, June 4 and all participants must be checked out by 2pm on Sunday June 8.