Date: Oct. 4, 2014
Location: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Contact email: [email protected]
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 14, 2014
Full proposal follows
“21st Century Englishes” Graduate Student Conference
Date: Oct. 4, 2014 Location: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Contact email: [email protected] Proposal Submission Deadline: July 14, 2014 Full proposal follows
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CFP: Research Network Forum 2014
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: RESEARCH NETWORK FORUM at CCCC March 19, 2014 from 8:00AM – 5:00PM Indianapolis, Indiana Proposal Deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2013 Complete Call Follows Call for Papers
Annual Meeting, February 27-March 1, 2014 Lubbock Christian University Submission deadline: October 7, 2013 cctetexas.org Full call follows In an act borne out of utter frustration and perpetuated by a budget crisis, I have been on a “tech diet” since the end of June. Allow me a few lines to set the scene.
I just finished reading my Writing in the Major classes writing inventories. This alone is an arduous task, but the inventories tell me a lot about the students and their backgrounds as researchers and writers. I learn about the types of writing they’ve done, and I learn where their actual research literacies lie. There are many interesting responses to questions they think they know, and there are some responses that simply help me understand what is “average” experience among the students. This time, I noticed an interesting trend in responses to the reasons my students chose their individual major–and, among my students, this is a trend that crosses the genders of my students.
My first semester in the doctoral program, I took a course in Michel Foucault from the brilliant Russell Greer. My motivation for taking this course came from hearing great things from his summer term Bakhtin students and from Googling Foucault just long enough to find out he had a book that discussed madness and the treatment of madness. At the time, I was still very much just a literary person, and Foucault seemed like something that would fit into my understanding of Virginia Woolf and her illness. As it turns out, I was both correct and terribly incorrect in this assumption. Over the next sixteen weeks we read more Foucault than my poor mind was ready to handle–Archaeology of Knowledge, Discipline and Punish, Power/Knowledge, and the entire Foucault Reader were the emphasis of the course. We perused theories of surveillance, power, geography (a bit), and archaeology. At the time, I thought I understood Foucault and his application to Virginia Woolf. But I was not able to do anything with her for the course; our major assignment involved creating our own archaeology for the topic of our choosing.
JAEPL__The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning--
invites submissions for the19th volume of this award winning journal which will be published in winter 2013. This issue welcomes essays which explore teaching and learning beyond traditional disciplines and methodologies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to—aesthetic, emotional, and moral intelligence; archetypes, body wisdom; care in education; creativity; felt sense theory; healing; holistic learning; humanistic and transpersonal psychology; imaging; intuition; kinesthetic knowledge; meditation; narration as knowledge; reflective teaching; silence; spirituality; and visualization. Note: Submissions especially welcome connecting to the theme of the conference for 2013. Electronic copies only please in WORD or rich text format 15-20 pages double spaced, MLA citation style. Deadline for submission: End of February, 2013 Last Monday, I was checking my Twitter feed between classes, and I stumbled on this shocking tweet from Writing Life (@cjprender): A colleagues has announced banning laptops in his classes. On FB. To the applause of his colleagues. Shoot me now. Barbara D’Angelo, Sandra Jamieson, Barry Maid, and Janice R. Walker are soliciting proposals for Information Literacy–Not Just for Librarians. Proposals are due 31 January.
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SmartyKattI am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Lamar University where I specialize in rhetoric, composition, digital literacy, and information literacy. My research focuses on the intersections of student engagement with digital and information literacy and their relation to student research and writing. I am an ACES Fellow at Lamar and, with Janice Walker (Georgia Southern), I am a Principal Investigator on the LILAC Project. Archives
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