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Crafting Communities Event: Critical Crafting Session on Paper-Based Media (11/19/2021)

Crafting Communities Event: Critical Crafting Session on Paper-Based Media

19 November 2021, 10:00am - 11:15am PST on Zoom

Please join Crafting Communities for this lively virtual Critical Crafting session, in which they will discuss how hands-on engagement with nineteenth-century paper-based media can help instructors activate students’ learning. Topics will include writing, folding, and sealing letters; hands-on assignments in a book history class; and making and teaching with optical toys.

The speakers will be

  • Meredith Bak (Rutgers University)
  • Claire Battershill (University of Toronto)
  • Catherine Golden (Skidmore College)
  • Leah Price (Rutgers University)
  • Amanda Shubert (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

This free event is open to all; to register, please visit: https://www.craftingcommunities.net/events


This roundtable is part of a year-long series titled Critical Crafting In and Beyond Humanities Classrooms: 19th-Century Material Culture and 21st-Century Open Pedagogy. This series is generously funded by the Universities of Victoria, Alberta, and Manitoba, as well as the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada

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