The RSA Committee for Grants in Support of Innovative Teaching of Renaissance Studies to High School Students is delighted to recognize eight projects at a Zoom webinar to be held Wednesday, 30 June 2021 at 10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. EDT. Easily convert the time zone here.
Four one-hour sessions will be held over the course of the day, each with two grantees to present and discuss their projects with those in attendance.
10:00–11:00 a.m.: Bringing the Past to Life
- Tim Overkempe, "Living Pasts: Bringing History Alive through Locals and by Digital Means"
- Emma Whipday, "Stay at Home Shakespeare"
- Chair: Clare Carroll
11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.: Indigenous Cultures: Art and Music
- Santiago Muñoz-Abeláez, "Paisajes coloniales: redibujando los territorios andinos en el siglo XVII [Colonial Landscapes: Redrawing Andean Territories in the 17th Century]"
- Jorge Torres, "Nahua Music at the Time of the Conquest"
- Chair: Susan Forscher Weiss
Lunch Break
1:15–2:15 p.m.: Archival Projects
- Thomas Hendrickson, "Unedited Neo-Latin Manuscripts in the High School Classroom"
- Elisa Frei, "On the Edition of Renaissance Manuscripts"
- Chair: Lawrence Rhu
2:30–3:30 p.m.: Attention to Language through Literature
- Johnny L. Bertolio, "Le vie dorate: Un'altra letteratura italiana: da San Francesco a Igiaba Scego [The Golden Paths: Another Diverse Italian Literature from Saint Francis to Igiaba Scego]"
- Anne Blaney, "Fun with Words" (Exploring the Folger Shakespeare API)
- Chair: Lorenzo Buonanno
