June 2006

Katy Southern: ChLA (Children's Literature Association) "Reading Dialogically – Transforming Narratives in Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents," June 2006

Corey Mead: Games, Learning, and Society Conference, June 2006, Madison, WI

May 2006

Michael Bernard-Donals,“ Levinas and Politics.” Conference of the North American Levinas Society (May 2006), Purdue University.

Proposer, session, “Counter-Publics, Counter-Rhetorics, Counter-Rationality.” Rhetoric Society of America conference (May 2006), Memphis.

“Levinas and the Counter-Rational.” Rhetoric Society of America conference (May 2006),Memphis.

Scot Barnett, "Spatializing Rhetorical Agency: Capacities for Action in Non-Place," RSA, May 26.

April 2006

Deborah Brandt.Chair, Curriculum as Civic and Ethical/Unethical Expression, AERA, 4/8
Chair, Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies: Instances of Practice, AERA, 4/11
Keynote speaker. 4th International Research Conference, National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. Nottingham UK, 4/27

Martin Nystrand.Organization of Instruction in Writing and Reading. Constructing a Secondary English Language Arts/Literacy Curriculum: The Montgomery County Public Schools Experience. AERA, 4/11

Mary Juzwik.The Moral Imperative for Literacy. Notes Toward a Post-Critical Pedagogy. AERA, 4/8
Stories Teachers Tell: Examining Oral Narratives in Teacher Groups. AERA/4/11

Tensions in Translation: Composition and Rhetoric in a Post-Humanities World (Panel Title)

David M. Grant. "Toward Sustainable Literacies: The Becoming-Social of Nature in an Ecocomposition Course"
Adam Koehler. "Title TBA"
Scot Barnett. "The Situation is Obsolete: Rhetorical Inf(l)ections in Stelarc’s Parasite Performances," MadLit 4/27-29

Bakhtin and Laughter (Panel Title)

Katy Southern. "Comedic Transformation – Bakhtinian Dialogism and the Pied Piper of Hamelin in Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents," MadLit 4/27-29

Workshop: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Reflections on Teacher Research

Led by Beth Godbee, Kate Vieira, and Annette Vee, this panel session will be an interactive workshop to enhance converations about teaching and to consider methodologies that allow us to reflect upon and improve our classroom practice. Rather than focus on a literary text or period, this workshop will examine the tradition of research and will address way to "translate" classroom practice into publication. MadLit 4/27-29

Deborah Brandt. Chair, Curriculum as Civic and Ethical/Unethical Expression, AERA, 4/8
Chair, Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies: Instances of Practice, AERA, 4/11
Keynote speaker. 4th International Research Conference, National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. Nottingham UK, 4/27

Martin Nystrand.Organization of Instruction in Writing and Reading. Constructing a Secondary English Language Arts/Literacy Curriculum: The Montgomery County Public Schools Experience. AERA, 4/11

Mary Juzwik.The Moral Imperative for Literacy. Notes Toward a Post-Critical Pedagogy. AERA, 4/8
Stories Teachers Tell: Examining Oral Narratives in Teacher Groups. AERA/4/1

March 2006

CCCC

Michael Bernard-Donals. Writing Against the Public. Session H.31

Deborah Brandt. Writing More at Work. 4Cs. Session K.33

Julie Christoph. "I Know the Illiterates, and I Have Great Pity for Them": Laubach Literacy International and the Construction of Adult Illiteracy. Session E.42

John Duffy. Not So Much a Dragon, Not So Much From Mars: Toward a Rhetoric of Autism, Session C.32. Oral Histories in Immigrant and Refugee Communities: Literacy, Affect, Power, Session FSIG.15

Mary Fiorenza. Brenda Ueland's 20th-Century Writing Life: A Biographical Response to Composition Questions. Session A.21

Steve Fox. Making Connections with the School of Education. Session TSIG.11

Beth Godbee. Click/Clique/Clash of Tutors: (Re)Building Community in the Writing Center. Session W.7

Eli Goldblatt. Community Arts and Literacy Network. Session I.34.
Revamping Academic Traditions that Structure Faculty Work and Faculty Careers. Session M.21

David Grant. Building Sustainable Literacies: An Empirical Study of Ecocomposition. Session A.23.
The Question of Research in Ecocomposition. FSIG.14.
From Legitimate Peripheral to Full Participation: New Scholars Building Community Through Interinstitutional Collaboration. SW.06

Emily Hall. Inverting the University: Writing, Roles, and the Dynamics of a Writing Fellow-Faculty Collaboration. Session K.27

Brad Hughes. Setting the Stage: The Scope and Nature of Differences Among Writing Centers. Session D.32

Mary Juzwik. Notes Toward a Post-Critical Pedagogy. Session H.31

Nancy Linh Karls. Rhetorics of Conscientious Objection. Session I.32
Theoretically Prepared: From the Job Market through the First Years as an Assistant Professor Administrator. Session AW.04

Stephanie Kerschbaum. Beyond Categorization: Using Markers of Difference to Enable Intersectional Analysis. Session J.16

Rhea Lathan. The Gospel Truth: Historical Perspective on African American Gospel Politics and Literacy as Cultural Practice. Session J.22

Martin Nystrand. Studying Composition Studies: The Uses of History in Navigating the Present. Session FSIG.15

Marie Paretti. Collaboration on the Inside: Building a Humanistic Engineering Communications Curriculum. Session A.34

Matthew Pearson. Writing Lessons from Basketball Fans: The Regulation of Writing in an Online Community.

Catherine Prendergast. For Whites Only? Audience and Autobiography in Whiteness Studies. Session F.35

Eric Darnell Pritchard. Miss Hallie's "Bits and Odds": Hallie Quinn Brown, Culturally Relevant (Religious) Language Pedgagogy, and Wilberforce University. Session J.22

Alice Robison. Videogame Design as a Writing Process. Session D.25.
What Videogame Designers Can Teach Writing Instructors. WSIG.3

Mira Shimabukuro. Who Sponsors the Sponsors: Starbucks and the Invisible Hands in Literacy. Session C.40

Katy Southern. Building a "Patriotic Community": Propaganda and the Americanization Movement in American Public Libraries. Session A.38

Erin Smith. Semiotic Domains Reloaded: Literacy and Localization in Video Games. Session D.25

Melissa Tedrowe. Community: Civic and Public. Session E.40

Bryan Trabold. Critical Literacy in Apartheid South Africa: An Analysis of the New Nation's Reading and Writing Lessons. Session E.42

Tisha Turk. Writing in Contexts: Institutional Assumptions about Disciplinary Expertise. Session A.12

Jeff Wiemelt. Contextualizing New Public Grammar. Session F.29

Other Conferences

Rick Hunter: "(Mis)Uses of Argument: The Arguing Arguers and the Qualifications They Don't Make," MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ARTS, & LETTERS, March 2006

February 2006

Martin Nystrand: “On the Structure of Understanding in Unfolding Classroom and Disciplinary Discourse.” Martha L. King Center for Language and Literacies at the Ohio State University as part of Gladys Foster Anderson Eminent Scholars program. Feb 14