Wednesday,
October 18
Overview Schedule
Highlander Center
Pre-Conference Workshop
(10:00am-4:00pm)
Kitteridge
Multipurpose Rooms C&D
Full-Conference Meet-and-Greet;
registration opens
(5:00pm-9:00pm)
Millennium
Hotel Bar; happy hour prices, cash bar
Thursday,
October 19
Overview Schedule
Registration (7:00am-5:00pm) Aspen Room
Coffee (7:00am) This coffee
break is sponsored in part by CU Engage, the CU Women’s and Gender Studies
Department, and the CU Ethnic Studies Department.
Welcome (8:00-8:15) Center
Ballroom
John-Michael Rivera, Director, Program
for Writing and Rhetoric
David Meens, Director, Office of
Outreach and Engagement
Chair’s
Address (8:15-8:30) Center Ballroom
Veronica House: Community Writing In
and As an Ecology
Workshops and DeepThink Tanks (8:45-10:45)
5 concurrent sessions
Session A
Concurrent Panels
(11:00-12:15)
10 concurrent panels
Lunch and
Keynote Address with Q&A (12:15-1:45)
Center Ballroom, Ballroom East
Introduction by Andrea Feldman and Tracy Ferrell,
Program for Writing and Rhetoric
Keynote: Elaine Richardson (The Ohio State
University)
Workshops
and DeepThink Tanks (2:00-4:00)
6 concurrent sessions
Networking Happy
Hour
(4:00-5:00) Ballroom East
Performance
(Doors
at 5:00; Performance at 5:15-6:15; Q&A 6:15-6:30) Ballroom
“The Prison Story Project: On the Row,” with discussion facilitated by David Jolliffe
WORKSHOPS
and DEEPTHINK TANKS
(8:45am-10:45am)
DEEPTHINK
TANK: “Anti-Racism, Intersectionality, and Critical Literacies: A Teach-In and
Work-In”
(Part
One of Two-Day Event)
Steven Alvarez, St. John’s University
April Baker-Bell, Michigan State University
Carmen Kynard, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Eric Darnell Pritchard, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
“Mental Modeler: A Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping
(FCM) Software Tool for Collecting and Standardizing Community Knowledge for
Decision-Making”
Steven
Gray, Michigan State University
Alison
Singer, Michigan State University
“Cultivating Community College-University
Relations across Writing Ecologies”
Christie
Toth, University of Utah
Andrea
Malouf, Salt Lake Community College; former director of Community Writing Center
Jennifer
Courtney, Salt Lake Community College
Shauna
Edson, Graduate Student Co-Researcher
Kelly
Corbray, Transfer Student Co-Researcher
Anthony
Magro III, Transfer Student Co-Researcher
Sandra
Salazar-Hernandez, Transfer Student Co-Researcher
Claudia
Sauz, Transfer Student Co-Researcher
“Developing Networks through Writing Centers
and Writing Across the Curriculum”
“Place-Based Literacy Education in Rural
Communities: Re-envisioning and Re-inventing Connections to Communities of
Practice”
Cynthia
Miecznikowski, University of North Carolina at Pembroke,
cynthia.miecznikowski@uncp.edu
SESSION A CONCURRENT PANELS (11:00-12:15)
INVITED
ROUNDTABLE: Writing Democracy: The Post-Trump Story Circle
Co-Facilitators:
Shannon Carter, Texas A&M-Commerce
Deborah Mutnick, Long Island University
Brooklyn
Developing Critical, Reflexive
Teacher-Scholar Stances That Resist Power in Past, Present, and Future
Community Work
Chair:
Sara P. Alvarez, Queens College, CUNY
Sara
P. Alvarez, Queens College, CUNY, and Michelle Day, University of Louisville,
“Trauma-Informed Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Working With Rising Sixth
Grade Black and Latina Girls and Their Communities of Struggle”
Laura
Gonzales, University of Texas-El Paso, “The Escuelita as a Network of Support:
Theraputic Learning and Engagement Entre Familia”
Megen
Farrow Boyett, University of Louisville, “Public Rhetorics and Literacy
Practices of Refugee Mothers”
Writing in/as Community
Chair:
Yvonne R. Teems, Hofstra University
Yvonne
R. Teems, Hofstra University, “The Ecologies of Literacy Practices in a Grassroots
Civic Organization”
Rebecca
Powell, University of Southern Mississippi, “Of Aspirations and Circulation:
Writing Promotoras and the Makings of
Change”
Gina
Keplinger, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “The Poster Child of Louder Than a
Bomb: How Badass Pedagogy Transforms Community Members into Community Leaders”
Frank Anderson,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “Rhetorics of Resistance: Youth-led
Organizing in Baltimore and the Potential of Emerging Technologies"
Prison
Writing Ecologies: Perspectives of Teachers, Prisoners, and Correctional
Administrators
Chair: Kelly Kinney, University of
Wyoming
Kelly Kinney, University of Wyoming,
“Distinctive Ecologies: Moving From a Course in First-Year Writing to a
Workshop for Women in Prison”
Sarah Duncan, University of Wyoming,
“Passing Notes Through Walls: The Department of Corrections’ Response to the
Course”
Annie Osborn, University of Wyoming,
Bryce Peterson, University of Wyoming, and Alison Berreman Johnshon, University
of Wyoming, “Ecologies of Silence and Power: Incarcerated Women’s Responses to
the Course”
Community Organizing and Activism
Chair: Tim Lockridge, Miami University
of Ohio
Tim Lockridge, Miami University of
Ohio, “DIY Locksmithing: Print Technologies and Hacker Advocacy”
Ljiljana Coklin, University of
California Santa Barbara, “A Balancing Act: Discovering Individual Agency and
Building Communities”
Jasmine Villa, University of Texas at
El Paso, “Community Writing Using Twitter: Hashtags as a Network and Ecology”
Kathryn Comer, Portland State
University, “Digital Activism Networks and Social Media Strategies: Building a
#Blackfish Effect”
College Readiness and Transitions
Chair: Carly Johnson Hess, The
University of Central Florida
Carly Johnson Hess, The University of
Central Florida, "Thinking Beyond Grit: Student Support at a Community
College Writing Center"
Lucas Corcoran, The Graduate Center,
CUNY, “‘Languaging 101’: Local Language Ethnographies, Basic Writing, and the
SEEK Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY”
Terainer Brown, University of Colorado
Colorado Springs, “College Transition Programs and Writing: A Missed
Opportunity?”
Community Publishing and Mapping
Chair: Deanna Laurette,
Wayne State University
Deanna Laurette, Wayne
State University, “Communicating Disability on Social Media --Representing,
Disclosing, Curating on Internet Support Boards”
Allison Walker, High Point University, and
Cara Kozma, High Point University, “Sustaining Networks of Engagement in an
Ecology of Empathy”
Dawn Opel, Michigan State University,
and John Monberg, Michigan State University, “Mapping the Network of the
Clinical Trial: A Toolkit for Health Equity Activism”
Autumn Laws, Michigan State University,
“Illness Online: How Online Tagging Creates URL and IRL Communities”
Moving
From the Center: Connecting Writing Center Values in Community Partnerships
Chair: Bronwyn T. Williams, University
of Louisville
Bronwyn T. Williams, University of
Louisville, “Growing Spaces for Community Writing in the Ecology of
Universities: Pedagogical and Political Change”
Jessica Newman, University of
Louisville, “Listening and Conversation as Keys to Working with Individuals and
Communities”
Carrie Cole, University of Louisville,
“Taking the Long View: Sustainability Working with Students and Community
Partners”
Chris Scheidler, University of
Louisville, “Change and Compromise: Interrogating and
Responding to Issues of Power”
Writing
as Ecology: How Writing Environments Shape Public Encounters
Chair: Katherine Silvester, Indiana
University Bloomington
Katherine Silvester, Indiana University
Bloomington
Joan Linton, Indiana University
Bloomington
Laura Clapper, Indiana University
Bloomington
Facing Change: A Collaborative Writing
Model for Networking and Engaging Students, Faculty, and Institution with
Community Voices
Chair: Deborah Romero, University of
Northern Colorado
Patricia Jolly, University of Northern Colorado
Holly N. Roberts, University of
Northern Colorado
Tyler Bedell, University of Northern
Colorado
LUNCH
AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ELAINE RICHARDSON
(12:15-1:45)
WORKSHOPS AND DEEPTHINK
TANKS (2:00-4:00)
DEEPTHINK
TANK: Circulation and Ecologies
Laurie Gries, University of Colorado
Boulder
Jenny Rice, University of Kentucky
Nathaniel Rivers, Saint Louis
University
Kristen Seas Trader, University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater
Michele Simmons, Miami University
John Tinnell, University of Colorado
Denver
“‘What
Is To Be Done?’: A Writing Democracy Workshop”
Shannon Carter, Texas A&M-Commerce
John Duffy, Notre Dame University
Carmen Kynard, John Jay College of
Criminal Justice
Deborah Mutnick, Long Island
University, Brooklyn
“Microaffiliation:
Countering Microaggressions across Campus and Community Spaces”
Rasha Diab, The University of Texas at
Austin
Beth Godbee, Marquette University
“Create,
Engage, Write & Repeat with NY Writers Coalition”
Rose Gorman, NY Writers Coalition / The
Tuxedo Project, Marygrove College
Aaron Zimmerman, NY Writers Coalition
DEEPTHINK
TANK: Environmental/Food Justice and Communication
Kathryn Burleson, Conscious Alliance,
Boulder, CO
Laurie Grobman, Penn State
University-Berks
Justin Levy, Conscious Alliance,
Boulder, CO
Donnie Sackey, Wayne State University
Stephanie Wade, Unity College
“Contemplative
Practices for Community Work”
Stephanie
Briggs, Community College of Baltimore County
Paula
Mathieu, Boston College
NETWORKING HAPPY HOUR
(4:00-5:00)
PERFORMANCE
AND DISCUSSION
(5:15-6:30)
THE PRISON STORY PROJECT: ON THE ROW is a production of the
Northwest Arkansas Prison Story Project, which since 2011 has been sending
teams of writers into prisons, leading writing workshops with the inmates, and
then developing readers’ theatre scripts that are performed by professional
actors both for the inmates who write the material and for public audiences. In
the summer of 2016, the Prison Story Project undertook its most challenging
initiative: eight inmates housed on Arkansas’ Death Row met with Prison Story
Project workshop leaders one Saturday a month from May through September to
read and discuss imaginative literature and write in response to issues,
themes, and problems raised by it. ON THE ROW, the 70-minute script generated
by the initiative, was performed on Death Row for the writers on October 8 and
subsequently presented to large, enthusiastic public audiences in the weeks and
months following the initial performance.
This event is sponsored by the Brown Chair in
English Literacy at the University of Arkansas and by the CU Boulder Office for
Outreach and Engagement.
Friday,
October 20
Overview Schedule
Contemplative
Practice (7:45-8:15)
Facilitated by Paula Mathieu
Coffee (8:00-8:30)
Session B Concurrent Panels (8:30-9:45)
10
concurrent panels
Session C
Concurrent Panels (10:00-11:15)
10 concurrent panels
Lunch on
your own (11:15-12:45)
Meeting of Organization Planning Committee
Session D
Concurrent Panels (12:45-2:00)
10
concurrent panels
Workshops
and DeepThink Tanks (2:15-4:15)
Coffee and Snack
Break (4:15-4:45)
Performance (5:00-6:30)
Elaine
Richardson’s one-woman show, “PHD to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life”
SESSION
B CONCURRENT PANELS (8:30-9:45)
Intergenerational Dialogue Across Difference
Chair: Sarah Massey-Warren, University
of Colorado Boulder
Cassandra Ellis, University of Alabama
at Birmingham, “Ecology Through Technology with Cyber Seniors: Fostering
Intergenerational Communication and Community”
Joyce Meier, Michigan State University,
“Global Ecologies as Framework: A Community Project Involving International
College Students and U.S. Third Graders”
Sarah Massey-Warren, University of
Colorado Boulder, Jack Williamson, Community Member Director/Coordinator, and
Frank Kogen, University of Colorado, “Developing Dialogical Edges for
Intergenerational Communication”
Community
Writing and Policing in City, Campus, and Classroom
Chair: Ben Kuebrich, West Chester
University
Ben Kuebrich, West Chester University,
“Community Literacy Can’t Deal With the Cops”
Vani Kannan, Syracuse University,
“Policing the Campus Community”
Yanira Rodriguez, Syracuse University,
“The Courage to Teach in These Times: On Classroom Narratives and the Policing
of Pedagogies”
Theories of Sound, Space, and the Post Human
Chair: Mary Hocks, Georgia State
University
Mary Hocks, Georgia State University,
“Sonic Ecologies as a Path for Activism”
Erin Brock Carlson, Purdue University,
“Towards an Intersectional Theory of Community Engagement”
Summer Dickinson, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, “A Study of the Spatial-Rhetorical Function of objects of protest in Public Writing
Within the Collective Activism Surrounding Sacred Stone Protest Networks”
McKinley Green, The University of
Minnesota –Twin Cities, “Toward a Praxis of Listening: Rhetorical Listening as
Public Engagement in First-Year Composition”
Creating Sustainable Service Learning:
Navigating Institutional and Community Accountability
Chair:
Jonathan Isaac
Mary Fiorenza, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “Managing, Collaborating, and Letting Go: How to Support
Instructor Innovations in Service Learning while Doing the WPA’s Job”
Julia Garrett, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “Schools of Hope: Cooperative Tensions for Addressing the
Literacy Achievement Gap”
Kassia Krzus-Shaw, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “When Resources Work Against You: Merging Two-Year and
Four-Year College Service Learning Conversations”
Jonathan Isaac, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, “Peaceful Transfer of Instruction: Turning a Pilot Course
into a Sustained Partnership”
Eco-Pedagogy and Eco-Literacy
Chair: Christina J.G. Lane, Oklahoma
State University
Christina J.G. Lane, Oklahoma State
University, “Ecological Community Literacy through Nature Notebooks”
Marsha E. Williams, Tennessee State
University, “Green Kabaret: Linking Environmental Advocacy to the Humanities”
Kendall Leon, California State
University, Chico, “Designing Environmental Advocacy Projects for Writing
Students”
INVITED DISCUSSION with Eli
Goldblatt: Community Writing in a Time of Violence
Zines as Intervention
Chair: Jen
England, Hamline University
Jen
England, Hamline University, “Writing in Uncertain Times: Zines as Community
Building”
Kristen
Spickard, University of Central Arkansas, kspickard@uca.edu, “The
CitiZine Project: Self-Publishing as Political Action”
Lesley
Graybeal, University of Central Arkansas, “The CitiZine Project:
Self-Publishing as Political Action”
Mobilizing Partnership Networks
Chair: Petger
Schaberg, University of Colorado Boulder
Angela Sowa, University of Denver, and
Sarah Hart Micke, University of Denver, “Betwixt and Between Communities:
Co-Curricular Community Engagement and Its Discontents”
Petger Schaberg, University of Colorado
Boulder, “Not All Stakeholders are Created Equal!: Stakeholder Theory for
Successful Outcomes”
Alexis F. Piper, Lakeland University,
“’Sometimes I Feel Like Those Professors are Speaking Freaky Deaky Dutch’: How
Code Switching Can Build Community Networks Outside the Academy”
Daniel Singer, University of Denver,
‘If Only I Could Do More’: Ambition, Effective Altruism, and Iterability in
Community-Engaged Writing”
Feminist Connections and Outreach:
Building Networks for Women and Girls
Chair: Jennifer Bay, Purdue University
Becca Hayes, University of Missouri-Columbia, “We’re a Very
Connected Community, Very, Very Interconnected: Engaging Lesbian Community
Through Rhetorics of Gathering”
Carrie Grant, Purdue University, “From
Community Outreach to For-Profit Tech Camps: Technofeminist Interventions into
Girls’ Digital Literacies”
Wendy Vergoz, Marian University, “Life
in These Bones: A Community/University Partnership in a 21st Century Women’s
Writing Workshop”
Jennifer Bay, Purdue University, “Women
Mentoring Women: Rhetorical Networks Across Institutional and Community
Settings”
Cross-Cultural Dialogues
Chair: Tamera Marko, Emerson College
Tamera Marko, Emerson College, Ryan
Catalani, MobilityMovilidad.Org, Mario Ernesto Osorio, Emerson College, Ramiro
Soto, Emerson College, “Proyecto Carrito: Our Translingual Pro-immigrant
Writing Collective Moves Nationwide”
(40 minute slot)
Andrea Feldman, University of Colorado
Boulder, and Pilar Prostko, “Fostering Inclusive Communities Through Dialogue”
(20 minute slot)
SESSION C CONCURRENT
PANELS (10:00-11:15)
INVITED
ROUNDTABLE: Learning Together: Gathering Resources for Feminist
Community Writing
Co-chairs: Jenn Fishman, Marquette
University , and Megan Faver Hartline, Trinity College
Jenn Fishman, Marquette University
Megan Faver Hartline, Trinity College
Ruth Cary, Widener University
Muthoni Mahachi, Hofstra University
Yvonne R. Teems, Hofstra University
Jayne Thompson, Widener University
Race, History, Place
Chair: April O’Brien, Clemson
University
April O’Brien, Clemson University,
“Bleeding Borders: How Difference is Constructed Through Material Spaces”
Michael Dimmick, University of Houston
Downtown, “The Green Book: Increased
Mobility, Community Writing, and African American Rhetorics of Citizenship”
Rachel C. Jackson, University of
Oklahoma, “Decolonizing Community Writing: Story, Transrhetorical Resistance,
and Indigenous Cultural Literacy Activism”
Tamara Butler, Michigan State
University, “BlackGirlPraxis: Writing to Heal, Transform, and Connect”
Beyond
Reciprocity: Toward a Model for Assessing Institutional Impact
Chair: Naomi Clark, Loras College
Naomi Clark, Loras College
Maggie Baker, Loras College
Beth McGorry, St. Mark’s Youth
Enrichment
Justin Ellis, Iowa Campus Compact
Grapevining
at the CCW: Making Our Own Stories in a Live Story-Creating Event
Story Facilitators:
Nichole Lariscy, University of Alabama
Birmingham
Cynthia Mwenja, University of Alabama
Birmingham
Kyes Stevens, Auburn University and
Alabama Prison Arts Education Project
High
Impact Community Engagement Practices in Topeka, Kansas
Chair: Melanie Burdick, Washburn
University
Melanie Burdick, Washburn University
Mary Sheldon, Washburn University
Dennis Etzel, Jr., Washburn University
Jennifer Pacioianu, Washburn University
Prisons, Cops, and Technology as Activism
Chair: Michael Knievel, University of
Wyoming
Rachel Lewis, Northeastern University,
“Queer Connections: Defining Community Writing in the Age of Mass
Incarceration”
Wendy Hinshaw, Florida Atlantic University,
“Why I Write: Advocacy from the
Inside Out”
Michael Knievel, University of Wyoming,
“Copwatching and Community “Writing”: Remediating, Circulating, Participating”
Centering
Community Knowledges in Engagement Partnerships: From Joint Advisory Boards in
Program Administration to Local Publics in the Classroom
Chair: Eli Goldblatt
Rachael Wendler Shah, University of
Nebraska—Lincoln, “Building a Joint Advisory Board: A Rationale for Situated
Joint Sponsorship”
Brad Jacobson, University of Arizona,
“Building a Joint Advisory Board: Expanding Networks of Practice”
Adam Hubrig, University of
Nebraska—Lincoln, “Scaffolding Student-Composed Local Publics”
Food and Digital Communities
Chair: Eric
Sepenoski, Northeastern University
Eric Sepenoski, Northeastern
University, “The Farmer Writes: Creating and Sustaining Community-Sponsored
Agriculture through Digital Composition”
Kelli Gill, Michigan State University,
“How to (News)feed a Crowd: Collaboration and Transformation in Digital Food
Communities”
Sarah Moon, University of Connecticut,
“Lassoing Many Moons: Discursive Ecology Work in a Food-Centered Community
Writing Project”
Online
Community Writing Projects: Building Global Networks to Support Local Action
Chair: Lisa Dush, DePaul University
Lisa Dush, DePaul University
Travis Rejman, Goldin Institute
Delasha Long, DePaul University
ROUNDTABLE: “The Arts of Discernment in Assessing (and
Participating in) Embodied Protest”
Co-facilitators: Nancy
Welch, University of Vermont
Tony Scott, Syracuse
University
LUNCH
on your own (11:15-12:45)
Meeting
of Organization Planning Committee
SESSION
D CONCURRENT PANELS (12:45-2:00)
INVITED
ROUNDTABLE: Decolonizing
Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy Author Discussion
Co-chairs: Iris Ruiz,
University of California Merced, and Raúl Sanchez,
University of Florida
Steven Alvarez, St.
John’s University
Marcos Del Hierro, University of New
Hampshire
Iris Ruiz, University of
California Merced
Raúl
Sanchez, University of Florida
Candace Zepeda, Our Lady of the Lake
University
José Cortez, University of Arizona
Tracing
the Untraceable: Exploring Circulation’s Invisible Effects on Communities
Chair: John Silvestro, Miami University
John Silvestro, Miami University,
“Envisioning Circulation”
Jon Bradshaw, Western Carolina
University, “(In)Visible Debts and Communities at Risk”
Kellie Sharp-Hoskins, New Mexica State
University, “Slow Circulation and Community Advocacy”
Chris Mays, University of Nevada, Reno,
“Tracking the Circulation of Rhetorical
Commonplaces”
ROUNDTABLE:
Community Writing as Cultural Entrepreneurship: Are We Ready for
Critical-Entrepreneurial Rhetorics?
Chair: Paul Feigenbaum, Florida
International University
Paul Feigenbaum, Florida International
University
Ben Lauren, Michigan State University
Danielle Nicole DeVoss, Michigan State
University
Stacey Pigg, NC State University
Studying Place Across Difference
Chair: Rosanne Carlo, College of Staten
Island (CUNY)
Julie O’Connell, and Melissa MacAlpin,
Felician University, “Ten Years After Katrina: The Flooded Physical and
Rhetorical Ecosystems of New Orleans”
Jennifer Maloy, Queensborough Community
College, jmaloy@qcc.cuny.edu, and Nancy Pine, Columbus State Community College,
Delaware Campus, “The History of Now: Recovering and Exchanging Oral Histories
Across Regions”
Rosanne Carlo, College of Staten Island
(CUNY), “Gentrifying New York City: Place-Based Curriculum as Community Writing
at CUNY
Jessica Pisano, University of North
Carolina, Asheville, and Patrick Bahls, UNCA, “Uncovering Local Ecologies:
Writing to Explore in Linked First-Year Courses”
Mobilizing Community Conversations
Chair: Carol Spaulding-Kruse, Drake
University
Erec Smith, York College of
Pennsylvania, "Building Bridges: The Efficacy of Community Radio in Civic
Engagement"
Scott Chiu and Ariana Nelson,
California Lutheran University, “Community Literacy Initiatives that Explore
Margins and Map the Writing Ecology Around a Small Private University”
Carol Spaulding-Kruse, Drake
University, “‘Find Out for Yourself:’ Community Publishing and (the Pedagogy
of) Post-Composition”
Show Some Skin: Live, Remixed, and
Flexible Rhetorics for Social Change
Chair: Cecilia Lucero, University of
Notre Dame
Nicole MacLaughlin, University of Notre
Dame
Cecilia Lucero, University of Notre
Dame
Patrick Clauss, University of Notre
Dame
Creating Spaces for Change
Chair: Juliette Kitchens, Nova
Southeastern University
Karina Lozano, Nova Southeastern
University, Juliette Kitchens, Nova Southeastern University, Kelly Concannon,
Nova Southeastern University, and Sami Epstein, Nova Southeastern University,
“Collaboration and Contention: Reflections on Building a Literacy Center”
(30-minute presentation)
Kristen Kaschock, Drexel University,
and Rachel Wenrick, Drexel University, “Writers Room: Nudging Systems Towards
Transformation” (30-minute presentation)
A Community Writing Center’s Role in Catalyzing Community
Engagement and Understanding
Chair: Collett
Litchard, Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center
Collett
Litchard, Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center, Jesse Focht,
Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center, and Melissa Helquist,
Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center, “Employing Usability
Testing to Increase Community Engagement” (30-min presentation)
Alice Lopez,
University of Utah, and Justice Morath, Salt Lake Community College Community
Writing Center, “You Won’t Believe What’s In This Talk! Writing For Change in New Rhetorical
Landscapes” (30-minute presentation)
Building Community Partnerships to
Achieve Transformational and Lifelong Learning
Chair: Melinda Knight, Montclair State
University
Melinda Knight, Montclair State
University
Alice Beresin and Alicia Remolde,
Montclair State University
Melinda Knight, Montclair State
University
Laura Lubrano, Montclair State
University
Migrations:
Toward an Interdisciplinary Ecology
Chair: Shanyn Fiske, Rutgers
University, Camden
Shanyn Fiske, Rutgers University,
Camden
Kaja Brix, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks
Leslie Rapparlie, University of
Colorado, Colorado Springs
Jessica Isaac, Books@Work
Positioning
and Assessing Writing in the Contact Zone
Chair: Morgan Read-Davidson, Chapman
University
Morgan Read-Davidson, Chapman
University, “Reconceiving the Community Writing
Workshop as Complex System”
Jan Osborn, Chapman University, “At the
Edge of Chaos”
Lance Langdon, Chapman University and
University of California, Irvine, “The Business of Ethnography and the
Ethnography of Business”
WORKSHOPS, DEEPTHINK
TANKS, EDITORS’ ROUNDTABLE (2:15-4:15)
DEEPTHINK
TANK: “Anti-Racism, Intersectionality, and Critical Literacies: A Teach-In and
Work-In”
(Part Two
of Two-Day Event)
Steven Alvarez, St. John’s University
April Baker-Bell, Michigan State University
Carmen Kynard, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Eric Darnell Pritchard, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
EDITORS ROUNDTABLE & DISCUSSION
Jonathan Alexander, CCC
Katie Comer and Kelly Bradbury, Harlot
Paul Feigenbaum and John Warnock, Community Literacy Journal
Laurie Gries, enculturation
Mariana
Grohowski, Journal of Veterans Studies
Tara Lockhart and Juli Parrish, Literacy in Composition Studies
Deborah Mutnick and Laurie Grobman, Reflections
Steve Parks, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, NCTE
“Blues You Can Use: Protest Songwriting
Workshop”
Brian
Laidlaw, University of Denver
DEEPTHINK TANK: “Feminisms, Activism, and
Community Writing”
Jenn
Fishman, Chair, Marquette University
Heather
Branstetter, Executive Director, Historic Wallace Preservation Society
Mariana
Grohowski, Faculty liaison between student veterans organization and
nonprofit, Indiana University Southeast
Erin
Krampetz, Board Member, Watson University and Amani Institute
Sagashus
T. Levingston, Founder of Infamous Mothers
Tessa
Zimmerman, Founder of ASSET Education
“Exploring, Curating, and Creating: Using
Digital Rhetorical Tools for Archival Work”
Michael
Neal, Florida State University
Courtney
Rivard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Tarez
Samra Graban, Florida State University
Networking Coffee and Snack Break (4:15-4:45)
“PHD to
Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life”
Elaine
Richardson’s One-woman Performance
Friday, October 20, 5:00-6:30; doors
at 4:30
Addicted to drugs, abusive
controlling pimps, the streets, short stints in jail, the cycle of death that
was her life, and on top of that, pregnant AGAIN. It was the end. The
only way out was death or prison, but that wasn’t her fate. Instead, she
went to school… and never stopped. On her journey, she became empowered
with knowledge of her culture and history. Today, Dr. Elaine Richardson shares
her story of sexual exploitation and other forms of bondage to bring awareness
to the plight of those entrapped in urban domestic human trafficking, and to
promote healing and empowerment through education.
This event is funded by the (IMPART) Implementation of
Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching Awards
Program, by the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and
Engagement, and by the CU Boulder Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community
Engagement.
Saturday, October 21
Overview Schedule
Coffee (8:00-8:30) This coffee break is
sponsored by the Colorado State University English Department.
Session E Concurrent Panels (8:30-9:45)
10 concurrent
panels
Session F Concurrent Panels (10:00-11:15)
10 concurrent
panels
Awards Lunch
and Keynote Address (11:15-12:45)
Award
for Outstanding College/Community Project in Community Writing (presented by Allen Brizee)
Award for
Outstanding Book in Community Writing
(presented by Beverly Moss)
Award for
Distinguished Engaged Scholar in Community Writing (presented by Eli Goldblatt)
Keynote Address:
Ellen Cushman
Session G Concurrent Panels (1:00-2:15)
10 concurrent
panels
Session H Concurrent Panels (2:30-3:45)
10 concurrent
panels
Coffee and Snack Break (3:45-4:00)
Full Conference Reflective Discussion and Action Steps through IMPROV PERFORMANCE
(4:00-5:30)
Facilitated by
Playback Theater West
SESSION
E CONCURRENT PANELS (8:30-9:45)
Resilient,
Community Engaged, and at Maximum Capacity: Doing More With a Network
Chair: Sarah Stanley, University of
Alaska Fairbanks
Suzanne Bishop, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Chanelle Fournier, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Jennifer Tilbury, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Kendell Newman Sadiik, University of
Alaska Fairbanks
Jody Hassell, Blossom House
Sarah Stanley, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Microbial
Lessons Toward a Trophic Model of Community
Chair: Jeremiah Dyehouse, University of
Rhode Island
Caroline Gottschalk Druschke,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Lily Lewis, University of Florida,
“Community Building in Extreme Environments: Lessons from Sphagnum Moss
Microbiome”
Jodie Nicotra, University of Idaho,
"Imperfect Community Is All You Get: Counterlessons from the Human Food
Project"
Jeremiah Dyehouse, University of Rhode
Island, "Barnyard Sensations: What Rind-washed Cheeses Can Teach us About
Trophic Models of Community"
Civic
Engagement and Composition: Inquiry around Freedom, History, & Politics in
our Current Democracy
Chair: Michelle Baptiste, University of
California, Berkeley
Amy Jamgochian, Prison University
Project, San Quentin State Prison, “Practices
of
Enfranchisement:
Lessons from the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison”
Grace Morizawa, Education Coordinator,
National Japanese American Historical Society, In collaboration with: Bay Area
Writing Project & the National Park Service
“From Tule
Lake to the Classroom: What Is Loyalty in a Japanese American
Concentration Camp?”
Michelle Baptiste, University of
California, Berkeley “Engaging in Democracy:
Political Discourse Analysis in a University Classroom”
Drawing from History to Engage in the Present
Chair: Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, The
George Washington University
Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, The George
Washington University, “#Black Lives Matter, Civil Disobedience, and the
Networked Protest Model”
Michael-John DePalma, Baylor
University, “Archives as Resources for In(ter)vention in Community-Based
Writing”
Connie Snyder Mick, University of Notre
Dame, “A Community Writing Approach to Wicked Problems: Lessons from Poverty
Studies”
Alice Horning, Oakland University,
“Community-Based Literacy Then and Now: Lessons from the Past”
Ethics,
Narrative, and Ethnographic Research Methods in Community-Based, Online Health
Research
Chair: Lori Beth De Hertogh, James
Madison University
Lori Beth De Hertogh, James Madison
University, “Feminist Digital Research Methodology for Rhetoricians of Health
and Medicine”
Lindsey Macdonald, Purdue University,
Cyber-Ethnographic Research Methods for Online Health Research”
Katrina Hinson, Tarleton State
University, “Networked Narratives: Illness Related Facebook Support Groups”
Community Writing Centers
Chair: Philip Bode, North
Dakota State University
Philip Bode, North Dakota
State University, "‘The World at Large': Expanding Writing Centers into
Marginalized Community Spaces”
Chessie Alberti, Oregon State
University, “Doing It in Public: Community Writing Centers as Empowering
Publics”
Mark Latta, Marian University,
“Critical Collaborations: Advocacy and Public Literacies in Imagining a
Community Writing Center”
Helen Raica-Klotz and Chris Giroux,
Saginaw Valley State University, “Locally Grown, Locally Produced: The Farmers’
Market Model of a Community Writing Center”
Students
Involved in Sustaining Their Arkansas (SISTA): Collaborative Writing to
Revitalize Economically Struggling Communities
Chair: David Jolliffe, University of
Arkansas
David Jolliffe, University of Arkansas
Julia Paganelli-Marin, University of
Arkansas
Jonathan Green, University of Arkansas
Access to/through Writing
Chair: Glenn Hutchinson, Florida
International University
Alison Turner, University of Denver,
“The Role of Writing in Low-Cost Adult Literacy Programs: A Denver Case Study”
Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison, Purdue
University, “Frameworks for Writing Disability: A Service-Learning
Partnership with a Campus Disability Resource Center”
Glenn Hutchinson, Florida International
University, “Networks of Action: Undocumented Students and the Writing
Classroom”
Constructing
Digital and Material Networks in Community-Based Composition Studies
Chair: Robin Wharton, Georgia State
University
Robin Wharton, Georgia State
University, “Place-Based Pedagogy: Locating Composition Within the Atlanta
Studies Network”
Ashley J. Holmes, Georgia State
University, “Place-Based Mobile Composition: Grounding Digital Writing in Local
Community”
Jessica Estep, Georgia Gwinnett
College, “Expanding Community Ecosystems by Examining the Material Space of the
Street”
Technical, Science, and Business Communication
Chair: Sean McCarthy, James Madison
University
Sean McCarthy, James Madison
University, “Blurred Lines: Community Writing and Its Relation to Social
Innovation in Higher Education”
Lenny Grant, Syracuse University, and
Cassandra Hockman, Virginia Tech, “The Teacher-Student-Practitioner Network:
Authentic Learning in an Intra-Institutional Science Writing Collaboration”
Seth Myers, University of Colorado
Boulder, “Hacking community: Social science methodology applied in digital
communities”
SESSION
F CONCURRENT PANELS
(10:00-11:15)
INVITED TALK AND DISCUSSION with Steve Parks: Transnational
Partnerships with Syria/Tunisia
Leveraging
Linguistic Networks to Promote Community Action on the Borderlands
Chair: Isabel Baca, University of Texas
at El Paso
Isabel Baca, University of Texas at El
Paso
Laura Gonzales, University of Texas at
El Paso
Victor Del Hierro, University of Texas
at El Paso
Mapping
the Entanglements of Community Spaces
Chair: Cynthia Fields, Augusta
University
Kristen Seas Trader, University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater, “Rhetorical Contagion and the Mimetic Entanglements of
Community”
Cynthia Fields, Augusta University, “Re-writing
Spaces for Social Action: The Limits of Ecology and the Affordances of Spatial
Justice”
Nicole Frisbey, Texas A&M
University San Antonio, “Mapping Thirdspace Writing in Communities”
Life Sentences: Citizenship and
Composition in Liminal Ecologies
Chair: Emily Artiano, University of
Southern California
Emily Artiano, University of Southern
California, “Writing in the Expansive Ecology of Dehumanization”
Ben Pack, University of Southern
California, "Taking on Transition: Pedagogical
and Personal Shifts in the Workshop Over Time"
John Murray, University of Southern
California, “Memoir as a Tool for Negotiating Conflicting Identities"
Stephanie Bower, University of Southern
California, “Sitting on the Porch or at the Table: Complicity and Resistance in
the Writing Workshop"
ROUNDTABLE:
Service-Learning, Civic Engagement, and Black Subjectivities: The Literacy
Narratives of Black Columbus
Chair: Sara Wilder, University of
Maryland, College Park
Beverly J. Moss, The Ohio State
University
Sherita V. Roundtree, The Ohio State
University
Gavin P. Johnson, The Ohio State
University
Michael Blancato, The Ohio State
University
Sara Wilder, University of Maryland,
College Park
Engaging
Students Through Ethical Inquiry
Chair: Teri Crisp, UC Berkeley
Teri Crisp, University
of California Berkeley, "Ecological Ethics: Sources of
Inspiration"
Michelle Baptiste, University
of California Berkeley, "Education in Action:
Environmental Field Studies"
Donnett Flash, University
of California Berkeley, "Ordinary Conversations as Site
for Analyzing Ethics"
Digital
Circulation and Community Writing: Expert, Novice, and WPA Network Theory
Chair: James Donelan, University of
California Santa Barbara
James Donelan, University of California
Santa Barbara
Christopher Dean, University of
California Santa Barbara
Kathy Patterson, University of
California Santa Barbara
Fostering
Ecological Relationships: A Rhizomatic Snapshot of Local Language, Literacy,
and Writing Needs at Cal State Los Angeles
Chair: Kathryn Perry, California State
University Los Angeles
Kathryn Perry, California State
University Los Angeles
Aaron Sonnenschein, California State
University Los Angeles
Christopher Harris, California State
University Los Angeles
Nora Cisneros, California State
University Los Angeles
Community
Literacy in the Age of Big Data: An Advocacy Strategy
Chair: Linda Adler-Kassner, University
of California Santa Barbara
Linda Adler-Kassner, University of
California Santa Barbara
Heidi Estrem, Boise State University
Dawn Shepherd, Boise State University
Susan Miller-Cochran, University of
Arizona
Challenges and Opportunities: Crafting
Infrastructures for University and Public Work
Chair: Lara Smith-Sitton, Kennesaw
State University
Don Unger, St. Edward’s University, “Building
University Infrastructure for Service and Engagement through Network* Writing”
Christina Santana, Worcester State
University, “For Us, Them, and Our Students: Growing an Interdisciplinary
Ecology through a Writing Liaison Program”
Lara Smith-Sitton, Kennesaw State
University, “Programmatic Concerns: Identifying Partners and Creating
Infrastructures for Community-Based Projects"
Megan Faver Hartline, Trinity College,
Developing Transdisciplinary Networks for Community-Engaged Research”
AWARDS LUNCH and KEYNOTE ADDRESS (11:15-12:45)
Award for
Outstanding College/Community Project in Community Writing (presented by Allen Brizee)
Award for
Outstanding Book in Community Writing
(presented by Beverly Moss)
Award for
Distinguished Engaged Scholar in Community Writing (presented by Eli Goldblatt)
Keynote: Ellen Cushman
SESSION
G CONCURRENT PANELS (1:00-2:15)
The
Idea of a Writer’s House: Realizing Civic Engagement on Cooper Street in Camden
Chair: Bill FitzGerald, Rutgers
University—Camden
Bill FitzGerald, Rutgers
University—Camden
Leah Falk, Rutgers University—Camden
Travis DuBose, Rutgers
University—Camden
Sevé Torres, Rutgers University—Camden
Ecologies
of the Borderlands Studies Digital Archive Project: Using Digital Humanities to
“Write” Histories with Greater Complexity
Chair: Regina McManigell Grijalva, Oklahoma City
University
Regina McManigell Grijalva, Oklahoma City
University
Sarah dAngelo, Brown University
Joseph Meinhart, Oklahoma City University
Mark Griffin, Oklahoma City University
Joy Pendley, University of Oklahoma
Politics, “Truth,” and
Assessments Emerging in Service-Learning Composition Courses
Chair: Tara Lockhart, San
Francisco State University
Anita Cabrera, San
Francisco State University, “The Space and Place of Now: Community Writing in a
Sanctuary City”
Jerome Schwab, San
Francisco State University, "Birth of a Notion: Politics are
Personal"
Amy Latham, San Francisco
State University, “An Ecology of “Alternative Facts”; Teaching Truth in an
Age of Misinformation”
Emma Rogers, San
Francisco State University and Tara Lockhart, San Francisco State
University, “Ecological
Assignments: Using Student Feedback to Prompt Change”
Sustaining Performative Interventions in
Academic Labor: Theory, Institution, Activism
Chair:
Sarah Austin, United States Air Force Academy Prep School
Lydia
Page, “Frankly, Scarlet, I don’t give a damn!”
Sue
Doe, Colorado State University, “Updating Campus Activism for Broad Purposes”
Sarah
Austin, United States Air Force Academy Prep School, “Adjunct Activism –
Enacting Tangible Changes in Curricula, Campus Activities
and Human Resources”
Vani Kannan, Syracuse University,
“Academic Labor as Embodied Performance: Popular Theater as a Coalitional
Pedagogy”
ROUNDTABLE: Self-Publication and Community
Writing
Chair: Steve Parks, Syracuse University
Eli
Goldblatt, Temple University, “The Legacy of Hal
Adams: Journal of Ordinary Thought
and Real Connections”
Tobi Jacobi, Colorado State University,
and Mary Ellen Sanger, Colorado State University, “SpeakOut! Writers on
Self-Publication: Reflections from Community Writing”
Michelle Curry, Colorado State
University, “Dignifying Quieted Voices: The Role of Self-Publication in
Community Writing”
Paula Mathieu, Boston College, “The
Question of Sustainability and Self-Publishing: Street Papers and the Challenge
of the Long Haul”
Steve Parks, Syracuse University,
"Learning from the Past: The Federation of Worker Writers and Community
Publishers Archive"
Assessing
Consequences for Our Community Partner: Results from a Study of Writing for
Change
Chair: Heather Lindenman, Elon
University
Justin Lohr, University of Maryland,
College Park
Heather Lindenman, Elon University
Carly Finkelstein, Northwestern High
School
Environmental Communication
Chair: Alison Singer, Michigan State
University
Alison Singer, Michigan State
University, “Translating Community Narratives into Semi-Quantitative Models to
Understand the Dynamics of Socio-environmental Crises”
Daniel Wuebben, University of Nebraska
Omaha, “Writing to Reroute Power Lines, or, “You Think Rhetoric’s Gonna Keep
That Crap Off My Land?!”
Analisa Skeen, Michigan State
University, “Wilderness Regulations and Decolonial Possibility in the National
Park Service”
Cassandra Hockman, Virginia Tech,
“’Science gave me voice’: Citizen Scientists, Writing, and Community in the
Virginia Tech-Flint, Michigan Collaboration”
Food Literacies
Chair: Michael Pennell, University of
Kentucky
Michael Pennell, University of
Kentucky, “Addressing the Networks of Hunger on College Campuses”
Steven Alvarez, St. John’s University,
“Taco Literacies: Mexican Foodways Writing in the Bluegrass”
Molly Kugel-Merkner, University of
Denver, “Emily Dickinson’s Botanical Legacy, Community Gardens, and Poetic
Pedagogy”
Tara E. Friedman, Widener University,
tefriedman@mail.widener.edu, Patricia M. Dyer, Widener University, “Generating
Powerful Voices: ‘Farming’ Local Change and Sustainability Through Writing”
Poetry
Outreach for Veterans, Prisoners, and Students: Creating a Responsive Flow
Infrastructure from the Inside Out
Chair: Laurie Cella, Shippensburg
University
Laurie Cella, Shippensburg University
Nicole Santalucia, Shippensburg
University
Abby Murray, University of Washington
Networked Literacy
Chair: Jennifer M. Cunningham, Kent
State University at Stark
Sarah Puett, University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities, “"Counterpublic Community
Literacy: A Look at Local Resistance."
Joe Concannon, The University of
Washington Seattle, “Šǝqačib: Networking Memory, Native Identity, and
Community Partnership”
Amy McCleese Nichols, University of
Louisville, “Mapping Literacy Infrastructure: Networked Sponsorship in a Rural
Community”
Jennifer M. Cunningham, Kent State
University at Stark, “The Ecologically Interdependent Nature of Digital African
American Language”
SESSION H CONCURRENT PANELS (2:30-3:45)
Cultivating Ecologies of Transgressive
Community Literacy Through Engaged Practicum Experiences
Chair: Lori
Bable, University of Arizona
Sally Benson,
University of Arizona, “Evolution of an Unlikely Writers’ Group”
Rachel Buck,
University of Arizona, “Emotional Costs and Reciprocal Care in Community
Literacy Work”
Lori Bable,
University of Arizona, “Cultivating Vital Community Literacies with Radical
Relationality”
It
Takes A Village to Raise a Children’s Book
Chair: Danny Long, University of
Colorado Boulder
Danny Long, University of Colorado
Boulder
Barbara Losoff, University of Colorado
Deborah Hollis, University of Colorado
Stephanie Briggs, Bear Creek Elementary
School
The
Potentials of Identity Expression in Digital Ecologies: Exploring Performance
and Representation in Facebook, Fanfiction, and Avatars
Facilitator: Ellen Cushman,
Northeastern University
Cara Messina, Northeastern University
Matthew Hitchcock, Northeastern
University
Sandra Nelson, The University of
Pittsburgh (paper read by Cara Messina)
Community Writing Pedagogies: From
Pre-Revolutionary Foundations to Contemporary FYC Applications
Chair: Jaime Armin Mejía, Texas State
University
Jaime Armin Mejía, Texas State
University, “The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Community Writing in Moral
Philosophy Classes”
Arielle Solcher, Texas State
University, “Community Writing and Service-Learning Pedagogy for
Pro-Environmental Change”
Emily Rybarski, Texas State University,
“Intergenerational Contact: Writing For and About Our Elderly”
Arun Raman, Texas State University,
“First Year Composition Civic Engagement After the Social Turn”
Post Truth, Fake News, and Information Literacy
Chair: Rolf Norgaard, University of Colorado
Boulder
Desiree Dighton, North Carolina State
University, “Critical Literacy: Social
Networks and the Rhetoric of Protest”
Rolf Norgaard, University of Colorado
Boulder, “Information in a Post-Truth World: Impacts and Opportunities for
Community Writing and Information Literacy Education”
Caroline Sinkinson, University of
Colorado Boulder, “Information in a Post-Truth World: Impacts and Opportunities
for Community Writing and Information Literacy Education”
Mapping Assets, Data Visualization, and Assessment
Chair: Lev Szentkiralyi, University of
Colorado Boulder
Heather Noel Turner, Michigan State
University, “Practices, Approaches, and Commitments for Culturally Inclusive
Community Work”
Karen Rowan, California State
University – San Bernardino, “Towards a Center for Community Writing: An
Asset-Based Case Study of San Bernardino’s Community Cultural Wealth”
Alexandra Cavallaro, California State
University – San Bernardino, “Towards a Center for Community Writing: An
Asset-Based Case Study of San Bernardino’s Community Cultural Wealth”
Lev Szentkiralyi, University of
Colorado Boulder, “How Writing Instruction Improves the Service-Learning
Experience: An Empirical Test”
Building Networks with Vets and Homeless
Chair: Lauren Rosenberg, New Mexico
State University
Lauren Rosenberg, New Mexico State
University, “What’s Community Got
to Do with It? One Military Writer’s Reluctance to Identify as a Veteran”
Mariana Grohowski, Indiana University
Southeast, “What’s Community Got to Do
with It? On the Internet, Nobody Knows I'm a Veteran"
Karen Springsteen, Wayne State
University, “Micro-politics: How Working with Veterans’ Writing Groups Informed
a Community Writing Initiative in Detroit”
Trinity Overmyer, Purdue University, “A
Human Network, Materialized: Built Infrastructure and Rhetorical Force”
Eco-Pedagogy
Chair:
Doug Dupler, University of Colorado Boulder
Doug Dupler, University of Colorado
Boulder, ???
Megan Kelly, University of Denver, “Teaching
Sustainability through Community-Engaged Writing: What Do Students Learn?”
Robert Eric Shoemaker, Naropa
University, Sarah Escue, Naropa University, and Emily Duffy, Naropa University,
“Redefining Eco-Pedagogy for Community Praxis” (30 min)
ROUNDTABLE: Expanding Literacy Networks
and Ecologies through a Community Press
Chair: Christopher Wilkey, Northern
Kentucky University
Christopher Wilkey, Northern
Kentucky University
Brian Bailie, University of Cincinnati,
Blue Ash College
Alice Skirtz, Greater Cincinnati
Homeless Coalition
Jennifer Arens, Peaslee Neighborhood
Center
Public
Writing Pedagogy
Chair: Tyler Branson, University of
Toledo
Tyler Branson, University of Toledo,
“Public Ecologies: A Micro Case Study of Public Writing Pedagogy”
Brenda Glascott, Portland State
University, “Lessons From the Micropublic: Activist Rhetorics and the Teaching
of Writing”
Carolyn Commer, Virginia Tech, “Writing
for Non-Profit Clients: Helping Students Articulate Rhetorical Expertise”
Darrel Elmore, Florida International
University, “Virtual Village: Community Engagement in the Online Classroom”
Coffee and Snack Break (3:45-4:00)
“Why We
Strive”
Facilitated Closing Plenary &
Performance, with Playback Theatre West
Saturday, October 21, 4:00-5:30
Playback Theatre is founded upon the
idea that stories shape our lives and build community. For nearly 30 years, the
professional actors and musicians of Playback Theatre West have used this form to facilitate both personal and community
sharing, healing, and growth. Audience members share a story from their lives
and professional improvisers turn them into art, on the spot.
This unique and interactive not-to-be-missed
closing event will allow us to bring together participants from across the
conference, to explore shared themes and forge connections between our work,
our current/future challenges, and our shared visions. Playback’s fluidly dynamic, embodied forms
invite us to visualize more clearly the ways in which the dynamics behind our
conference themes write themselves upon the world and affect us as whole
persons and interrelating communities.
In this facilitated closing plenary,
conference participants will be invited to share moments or insights from the
conference, our lives, and our individual and collective work – which will be
“translated” into professional theater, movement, and song, in the moment and
on the spot.
DIGITAL POSTER DISPLAYS
(Q&A times TBD)
THURSDAY:
Betsy
Bowen, Fairfield University, “‘Inspired Engagement’: Community Writing in a
Mission-Driven Institution”
Deborah
Romero, Emily Anderson, Amy Rodearmel, Yael Schechter, Shanda Torres,
University of Northern Colorado, “Rewriting the Word and the World: Preservice
Teachers Engaging in Multiliteracies for Student Empowerment”
Matthew
Hurwitz, University of Massachusetts Lowell, “Service-Learning and First-Year
Composition: Writing Towards a University-Community Ecology”
Sumyat
Thu, University of Washington, Seattle, “Writing as Networked Activity: Let
Students Find an Exigence”
FRIDAY:
Nancy
Bartley, University of Washington, “Raising the Dead: Hanging Your Story on the
Skeleton of History”
Andrea
Paolini, University of Pittsburgh, “Aiming High and Plugging In: Engaging
Global Girls in Blogging”
Nicole
Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Writing the Self,
Righting Our World: Holistic Literate Development and the Sustenance of Social
Worlds”
Jill Darling, University of Michigan Dearborn,
“Public Writing and Social Justice Activism: Claudia Rankine and Ta-Nehisi
Coates”
Margaret
Williams, Western Carolina University, “Let’s Talk About Chalk: The Search for
Useful Knowledge in a Rhetorical Ecology”
SATURDAY:
Andrew
Golden, Florida International University, “The Digital Collage: Protest Art for
the Activist Student”
Heather
Martin, University of Denver, and Paul Sherman, University of Denver, “Students
as Community Partners and Community Engagement Advocates”
Erin Kunz, Mayville State University,
“Writing Instructor as Travel Guide”
Rik Hunter, University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga, “Encouraging Public Subjects of Rhetorical Inquiry and Action
Through On-Campus Community Writing”
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