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MLA 2016 panel on Revolutionary Echoes! and shameless self-promotion

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Sorry for the long silence, but big news for MLA 2016 this coming Thursday! Check out the panel called “Revolutionary Echoes,” on 1/07/16 at 3:30-4:45.

Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 406, JW Marriott

Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th-Century French

Presiding: Jennifer S. Tsien, Univ. of Virginia

  1. “How Revolutionary Is Our Scholarship Today?,” Julia V. Douthwaite, Univ. of Notre Dame
  2. “How Not to Make a Revolution: The Revolution of Naples according to Cuoco,” Biliana Kassabova, Stanford Univ.
  3. “The Philosophes in Morocco: Revolutionary Ideas and Islam in the Twenty-First Century,” Mary Elizabeth Allen, Univ. of Virginia
  4. “‘This Full-Lipped Maiden Has the Heart of a Tiger’: Madame Roland as Model and Ideal in Revolutionary China,” Cecilia Feilla, Marymount Manhattan Coll.

 

And since we’re in promotional mode here, why not mention that the paper I’ll be presenting, “How Revolutionary is our Scholarship?” is available now on-line via academia.edu.

Hope to see you in Austin! Austin MLA 2016

Re-invigorating Teaching the French Revolution: the role of Lego? by Katherine Astbury

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Kate Astbury has been working with school pupils aged 9 and 10 as part of a scheme to teach them research skills. The pupils had a day at the University of Warwick where they learned how to evaluate historical sources and where they were introduced to the collection of Revolutionary prints held at Waddesdon Manor (see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/french/research/previousprojects/revolutionaryprints)

The pupils particularly enjoyed hunting for the hidden images of the royal family in prints from the post-Terror period.

They then returned to school to undertake their own research projects. They were asked to

  • Work in pairs to take one event or theme of the Revolution and examine how the prints can be used to reflect what people felt at the time
  • Present their findings as a story board or a newspaper front page or a news bulletin or an essay. Pupils from Allesley Primary School , Coventry, produced the stop animation video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM9en0m87pU ) using Lego figures.

You can see more about the Revolutionary prints in a video made by Dr Astbury: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/culture/revolutionprints