Upcoming Events

Save the date! The Ninth Annual Reacting Conference at Barnard College will be held Thursday, June 11 - Sunday, June 14, 2009.

September 19, 2008: Marsha Driscoll and Elizabeth Dunn, Bemidji State University. Roundtable, "The Development of Classroom Simulation Games." 2008 Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching, Traverse City, MI.

July 31–August 2, 2008: Barbara Waldinger, Queens College (CUNY). Panelist, "iGen Live;  Performance, Pedagogy and the Millenial Generation."  Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, Denver, CO. 

Publications

Carl A. Anderson (Michigan State University) and T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia) publish "'Reacting to the Past' and the Classics Curriculum: Rome in 44 BCE" in the Classical Journal 103.8  |  Read more...

David E. Henderson (Trinity College) publishes "Implementing Methodological Secularism: The Teaching and Practice of Science in Contentious Times," in Secularism & Science in the 21st Century  |  View online...

History professors Margaret Sankey and Sean Taylor (Minnesota State University Moorhead) awarded NEH Teaching American History grant for a three-year project, “American Crossroads, Teaching History on the Great Plains”  |  Visit MSUM announcement page...

Historian Andrew Keitt's “Galileo, Darwin and the Disenchantment of the World” class featured in the University of Alabama Reporter (Apr. 14, 2008)  |  Read online...

The Daily Texan profiles University of Texas Professor Larry Carver's course in "History at Play" (Mar. 26, 2008)  |  Read online...

McDaniel College's First-Year Seminar Program featured in AAC&U Member Innovations: "Undergraduate Science: Engaging the Big Questions and Increasing Achievement" (Mar. 2008)  |  Read more at http://www.aacu.org...

Tracy Lightcap (LaGrange College) presents a paper entitled "Reacting to the Past: Extended Simulations and the Learning Experience in Political Science" at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference  (Feb. 22, 2008)  |  Download PDF online...

Queens College Professors Ann Davison and Sue Lantz Goldhaber publish chapter, "Integration, Socialization, Collaboration: Inviting Native and Non-Native English Speakers into the Academy Through 'Reacting to the Past'", in Reclaiming the Public University: Conversations on General & Liberal Education (2007)  |   Read more...