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Making an Impression
Students role-play 1889 World’s Fair in Paris
Students reenact the Paris World’s Fair of 1889 in a combined course module for HIST 4740: American Cultural and Intellectual History and FREN 3110: French and Francophone Culture, co-taught by professors Susan Myers- Shirk and Joan McRae.
The Reacting to the Past game called Art in Paris: Modernism vs. Traditionalism uses an innovative pedagogy of assigning roles for students to reenact the past at a pivotal historical moment.
Here they relive the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, when the Eiffel Tower opened and art shows attracted high and low culture from around the world to see the paintings of the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists, and the Academy of Arts’ traditionalist painters.