STREAMING VIDEO

New Podcast: Mark C. Carnes,
"Reacting" to the Challenge of Undergraduate Education

Mark C. Carnes, creator and director of the "Reacting to the Past" project, discusses the critiques of "Reacting" and the possibilities of the pedagogy for general education.

Filmed by Barnard College Media Services for a faculty workshop at St. John's University (Queens, NY) on Saturday, April 18, 2009.






"Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament", Smith College

A documentary video by Amelia Vanderlaan and Caitlin Logan, Smith College.

This film shows footage from the Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament game being played at Smith College. Students are given historic roles and asked to contend with the legislation and ideas of the English Reformation. Students debate the writings of Machiavelli, Luther, More, Erasmus and all of the issues and legislation that allowed and led to England to spliting with the Catholic Church.





"The French Revolution on the Hudson", Barnard College

A documentary video showing Barnard College students playing the "Reacting to the Past" game Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791. The game plunges students into the intellectual, political, and ideological currents that surged through revolutionary Paris in the summer of 1791. Students are leaders of major factions within the National Assembly (and in the streets outside) as it struggles to create a constitution amidst internal chaos and threats of foreign invasion. Their debates are informed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, among other texts.

Filmed and produced by Edward Jahn with assistance from Barnard students, Barnard Electronic Archive and Teaching Laboratory (BEATL), 2001.