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the uic national conference on
writing centers
as public space presents
Race
in the Writing Center:
Towards New Theory and Praxis
at the University
of Illinois at Chicago Grant Hall
February 29 &
March 1, 2008
Friday, February
29
Directions to Conference
2pm
"You Know How
They Are" the Racialization of ELL in Writing Centers
Charitianne
Williams, Helen Rehn, and Leane Dostaler (U of Illinois-Chicago)
Compelled to
Exile: Writing Women's Lives In-Between
Ming Fang He
(Georgia
Southern U)
Race Data: Methodology
and the Politics of Interpretation
Jill Pennington
and Jason Mayland (Lansing Community College)
3pm
Competing
Cultures: Working the Academy and Making Work Academic
Mitch Nakaue and
Michelle Sizemore (U of Wisconsin-Madison);
Alexandra
Jamieson and Holly Larson (Lake-Sumter Community College)
Writing,
Revision, and Racial Identity
Jerrell Allen
(Prairie View A&M U); Somaiyya Ahmad and Ashvin Kini (U of
Illinois-Chicago)
Rewriting the
Classroom: Assessing Students’ Racialized Experience
Alex Wulff,
Lydia Saravia, and Ebony McGee (U of Illinois-Chicago)
4pm
Plenary
Keynote Presentation
From
Witness to (Re)Membering:
Writing
Centers and High Risk/High Yield Anti-Racism
Dr.
Frankie Condon
University
of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dinner &
Evening Presentation
Film: Shattering
the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty
Dessert and
coffee to follow film
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Saturday, March
1
8am
Breakfast
9am
Race Work at the
Center: Building Responsible Relationships
Between Writing Tutors,
Tutees, and Teachers
Michael
McDonald, Katie Malcolm, Marla Hyder, and Justin Moody (U of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Power of
Language or Language of Power?:
Rethinking
Academic Discourse and Race
Matt Cox and
Donnie Sackey (Michigan State); Erec Smith (Drew U)
From the Center
Out:
Assessing
Perceptions and Practices of Multiculturalism
Sabrina
Anfossi and Jaqueline A. Clifford (College of Dupage);
Gissel Escobedo (U of
Illinois-Chicago)
10am
Plenary
Keynote Presentation
Four
Lenses for Rethinking Race, Power, and Writing
Dr.
Kevin Kumashiro
(University
of Illinois-Chicago)
11:30am
Organizing for
Anti-Racism in Writing Centers
Moira
Ozais (U of Kansas); Beth Godbee and Rasha Diab (U of
Wisconsin-Madison)
Diverse
Campuses, Not So Diverse Writing Centers:
Struggles of
Power and Ideology.
James Warren
Boyd and Maureen Turner (San Francisco State U);
Kimberly Norris
(U of Illinois-Chicago)
Challenging
Exclusionary Practices in Writing Centers:
From Recruitment
and Training to Administration and Outreach
Rebecca Lorimer
(U of Wisconsin-Madison)
12:30pm
Lunch
2pm
Your Average
Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity
Vershawn Ashanti
Young (U of Iowa)
Leaving Room to
Talk: Race, Linguisitic Variety and Tutor Education
Benjamin Van
Loon (North Park U); Eileen Lagman (DePaul);
Laura Greenfield
and Karen Rowan (Mount Holyoke and Morgan State U)
Communicating
American Racial Conventions
to International
Students in the Writing Center
Linda Bergmann,
Tony Russell, Joy Santee and Richard Sévère (Purdue)
3pm
Writing Centers
at Urban 13 Universites
(meeting and planning session)
Trusting the
Situation:
Allowances for
Agency within a Pedagogical Borderland
Jane Cogie and
Trista Powell (Southern Illinois U); Lilia Uili (U of Wisconsin-Madison)
Wading in the
Water: Towards Developing an Anti-Racist Center
Mike Kelly,
Sandy Tarabochia and Alison Friedow (U of Nebraska-Lincoln)
4pm
Special Interest
on Anti-Racism Activism
Frankie
Condon (Uof Nebraska-Lincoln); Beth Godbee (U of Wisconsin-Madison);
Moira Ozias (U
of Kansas)
5pm
Closing Remarks Vainis Aleksa
(UIC)
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Early registration
for students will be $60; for non-students, $100.
Includes meals
Friday night , Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon.
Conference at the
UIC Writing Center, Grant Hall.
Click here for
registration form.
Recommended
lodging:
Crowne Plaza Hotel
CHICAGO-METRO
733 WEST MADISON
CHICAGO, IL 60661
Reservations:
1-800-496-7621
(mention UIC for
a discount)
To contact us
about the conference, please write
<raceinwritingcenter@gmail.com>
More updates with complete conference schedule soon. |
