Brooklyn College Studies in Religion Program

"When done right, the work of the humanities is the work of anti-racism...of undercutting assumptions and stereotypes about the people around us and bringing nuance to our perspectives, so that...we begin seeing the richness of our human experiences." @BCThinkers

Spring 2023 Course Contact Prof. Mancia for details LaurenMancia @ brooklyn.cuny.edu

August 31 at 12:30pm, history lounge, first floor Boylan: The undergraduate Historical Society will host Patricia H. Scroggs, Director of Diplomatic Fellowships, Howard University. More info below:

@CHitch94 @ElizKeoBurb @SHEG_Stanford And there is some here too: globalmiddleages.org/content/teachi… sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp

A6) Would love student friendly primary sources (excerpted, with vocab definitions - kind of like what @SHEG_Stanford does). They are so hard to find (for me) for high school students, particularly 9th and 10th graders. #sschat

@CHitch94 @ElizKeoBurb @SHEG_Stanford chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistoryso… also

@CHitch94 @ElizKeoBurb @SHEG_Stanford I find this helpful (there should be more!): loc.gov/static/program…

@SSChatNetwork caravansofgold.org/exhibition/int… #sschat also! @ElizKeoBurb

Resource sharing time, #sschat !

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy I also find this helpful: publicmedievalist.com/race-racism-mi… #sschat

@SSChatNetwork medievalstudies.uconn.edu/resources/reso… too!

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy And this! bu.edu/africa/outreac…

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy loc.gov/exhibits/mali/ and artsandculture.google.com/experiment/the…

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy This too: medievalart.org/teaching-a-glo…

@SSChatNetwork I feel like this is so essential: middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu I also love using this to look at visual culture that is happening simultaneously in the global medieval world: metmuseum.org/toah/

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy The Brooklyn College working group on the premodern world has monthly seminars open to visitors! Will be on zoom & in person in BK. brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/… (and feel free to email laurenmancia@brooklyn.cuny.edu for more info)!

@ElizKeoBurb @SSChatNetwork @MedievalAcademy No, unfortunately! First off, I think that we don't call it "medieval Africa" or "medieval China" at my college when we're training teachers--so we don't make these connections between europe/africa/asia explicit, which we should!

@ERBeckman @CHitch94 Yes I love this! They are always so shocked by it!

A2) That the medieval period is "just" Europe. Also that everyone was super religious and that women had no power/influence. #sschat

@SSChatNetwork I wonder what it would be like to not teach "China" and then "Greece" and then "Rome" and then "Mayan civ." and then (separately) Belief systems? But instead a more integrated series of units?

We're on to Q3 for #sschat

@SSChatNetwork One of the hard things about the NYS curriculum is that it is often taught as separate units--Europe, China, Africa, India, etc. are not taught together, as an interconnected world. When I taught high school, I wished I could teach Mali & Al Andaluz & France all at once!

@SSChatNetwork That "they" thought the world was flat... That there was "always" tension between east/west, Christians/non-Christians, Islamic world/Europe... That each continent (Europe, Asia, Africa) was isolated from the others...

Q2 for #sschat is up!

@SSChatNetwork For my students who are serious practitioners of a religion, studying the history of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the Middle Ages is especially interesting, as is comparing Buddhist monasticism and Christian monasticism!

Here's Q1 for today's #sschat - looking forward to seeing the responses.

@SSChatNetwork I think that, for students who are immigrants, they appreciate learning about the premodern history of their culture in the U.S., because 1) it makes them feel seen, but also 2) bc it's often a story told differently here than their home country, which makes for great discussion!