AHA Session 242
Saturday, January 6, 2018: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Empire Ballroom (Omni Shoreham, Lower Level)
Chair:
Myra B. Young Armstead, Bard College
Panel:
David W. Blight, Yale University
Patrick J. Rael, Bowdoin College
Patrick J. Rael, Bowdoin College
This session follows session 212, the Reacting to the Past workshop using the Frederick Douglass game.
Panelists, who will have attended that session and watched the game unfold in real time, will reflect on the limits and possibilities of embodied performance as a teaching tool for this particular subject and more generally as a method for delivering historical content and complexity in the undergraduate classroom.
Session Abstract
This session follows on the Reacting to the Past workshop (https://reacting.barnard.edu ), using the Frederick Douglass game (https://reacting.barnard.edu/node/10353 ). Panelists, who will have attended that session and watched the game unfold in real time, will reflect on the limits and possibilities of embodied performance as a teaching tool for this particular subject and more generally as a method for delivering historical content and complexity in the undergraduate classroom.
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