Reacting to the Past at Duke

Storify of tweets from a Reacting to the Past workshop at Duke in January 2013. Event website: http://reacting.barnard.edu/duke-2013

  1. gearing up for a great #rttp workshop tmr w @vszabo @chowleen @dfbellnc, mark higbee, john burney & jessica howell! http://pic.twitter.com/8E1bp83h
  2. Up & studying for my #rttp role as moral's reformer at a literary salon hosted by Charles Dickens honoring F. Douglass' Narrative in 1845.
  3. + Fully intend to wear a doily on my head with a severe middle part. #rttp
  4. Anyone want a ride from the hotel to #rttp? I have a car...
  5. @adelinekoh @MissCaton @vsabo i hv a problem…i don't own a khadi #rttp…but i will wear white and bike like any good indian village leader
  6. So jealous of all these people tweeting about #rttp in Durham. I wish I could be there!
  7. @normasalim @arreJB @reedhistory politics has dethroned religion, said Muhammed Iqbal. it is this Poet's goal to restore religion! #rttp
  8. #rttp -ers--bring your laptops if you'd like! there's free wifi (duke GUEST) at the workshop venue.
  9. @jacremes wish you could have made it too! try to make it for the annual meeting at barnard in june :) #rttp
  10. MT @vszabo: @ch3chia @normasalim @chowleen @dfbellnc Well these are already-existing elements of my wardrobe, in happy harmony! #rttp
  11. @adelinekoh @arrejb @normasalim @reedhistory I want my own country. None of this "princely states pick a side" business. #rttp
  12. Stuck in chapel hill traffic trying to get to #rttp. The blue team's Dr. Ambedkar is on the way!

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Adeline Koh

visiting faculty fellow at duke university. asst prof of literature at richard stockton college: digital humanities, brit, african and southeast asian lit and film, directs The Stockton Postcolonial Project (http://wp.stockton.edu/postcolonialstudies) and Digitizing Chinese Englishmen (http://chineseenglishmen.adelinekoh.org). Also writes for Profhacker.

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