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• Reacting 3.0 Listening Sessions

  • Start
    September 09, 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • End
    October 03, 2025
  •  
    8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom!

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  HELP LIFT REACTING TO THE NEXT LEVEL!

  Over the last year or so, the community--led by our Executive Director and Editorial Board Chair--has been working on a new vision for Reacting to the Past, that better meets the conditions we face in our classrooms today. We're calling it Reacting 3.0.

  Our user base is wider and more diverse than it has ever been, and changing political, cultural, technological, and social circumstances have brought new challenges and opportunities. 

  If you've attended a conference in the last year, you might already have been part of one of the conversations, but whether you've heard of Reacting 3.0 or not, we want to hear from you!

  Over the next month, we're hosting three 90-minute listening sessions to learn from you what you want to see as we move forward.  You're welcome to drop in for 15 minutes at a single session, or come to all three. We've tried to cover a range of times and days to allow as much participation as possible, and we hope that you'll join us and share your thoughts on the future of RTTP.

  The sessions will meet:

  • Tuesday, September 9, from 7-8:30 pm EDT
  • Wednesday, September 17, from 4-5:30 EDT
  • Friday, October 3, from 6-7:30 EDT

  There is no fee to participate, but we do ask that you register so we can send you the relevant Zoom link/s.

  We look forward to hearing your thoughts on Reacting 3.0!

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• Online Fall Workshop: Birth of the Public Sphere

  • Start
    October 17, 2025
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    7:00 PM
  • End
    October 19, 2025
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    12:30 PM
  • Location
    Virtual
  • Spaces left
    23
  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  Join us October 17-19 for an online playtest workshop of Joe Sramek's Birth of the Public Sphere, a Level 3 game with connections to history, political science, sociology, and cultural studies. Over the weekend, you'll play through a condensed version of this exciting new game, and have time to ask questions as to how to employ it your own classrooms.

  THE GAME: BIRTH OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
  Politics, Religion, and the Birth of the Public Sphere: England, 1685-1688 places students in the turbulent political and religious debates of late seventeenth century England, debates that were fundamental in shaping modern civil society. Other themes, such as the burgeoning Scientific Revolution, cultural transformations such as Restoration theater, gendered debates about the appropriate role of women in public debates, and the role of sociability in the development of major intellectual and moral theories are also foregrounded in the game. The game concludes by simulating the so-called “Glorious Revolution” of late 1688, resolving this significant event in English and Anglo-American history through a variety of player actions throughout the game.

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

  
  SCHEDULE (all times Eastern)

  October 17

  7:00-8:30 pm   Set up & Faction Meetings

  
  

  October 18 

  11:00 am - 12:30 pm  Sessions 1 & 2 (November 1685 and June 1686)

  12:30 - 1:30 pm           Lunch Break

  1:30 - 3:00 pm             Sessions 3 & 4 (January 1687 Open Sessions)

  
  

  October 19

  11:00 am - 12:30 pm  Sessions 5 & 6 (Winter/Spring 1688 and Fall 1688)

  12:30-1:30 pm             Lunch Break

  1:30-3:00 pm               Sessions Loose ends & Debrief
  
  

  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 October 10, 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
  Joseph Sramek is an associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, where he also serves as program coordinator and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the History and History-Education majors. He is the author of Gender, Morality, and Race in Company India, 1765-1858 (Palgrave, 2010) and frequently cited journal articles on British tiger hunting and masculinity (Victorian Studies, 2006) and religion and greater senses of Britishness in the empire (Journal of British Studies, 2015). He is currently researching senses of British and imperial national identities as lived experiences in colonial India over the long 19th century. He is also working on a second game for RTTP about British politics during the “Age of Peel” during the 1840s. Since 2015, he has actively taught with RTTP and has played nearly 20 different games with his students thus far.

  
  

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