IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 816: Breaking Down the Borders between Academics and Reenactors: Putting Modern Medievalism to Use
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Darrin Cox, College of Liberal Arts West Liberty University West Virginia |
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Moderator/Chair: | Susan M. Cogan, Department of History Utah State University |
Paper 816-a | Capturing Wild Wisdom: Reenactor Researchers and Academic Integrity (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 816-b | A New Public History from Below?: On the Borderlands between Academia, Museums, and Living History Groups (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 816-c | One Artefact, Multiple Perspectives (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Abstract | This session will primarily examine the nexus of academia and reenactment. How can academics and reenactors better collaborate? Should they? What are the benefits (and dangers) of historical experiential learning? Is it just for museums and historic sites or are there wider applications in the classroom? What does each side have to offer the other, if anything? What is the role of reenactment in the public discourse of history? |