Conference on Community Writing deadline

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

Dear colleagues,

There’s only one more week to submit a proposal for the Conference on Community Writing, which will be hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder on October 19-21.  Proposal deadline is Friday, February 3.

We have some incredible speakers and events lined up, including a full day pre-conference workshop on Wednesday, October 18 with Highlander Education and Research Center, formerly the famous Highlander Folk School that trained the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks and a  performance of THE PRISON STORY PROJECT:  ON THE ROW, 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. 

 

Keynote speakers are Ellen Cushman and Elaine Richardson.

We have several DeepThink Tanks planned:

Circulation and Ecologies, led by Laurie Gries, Jenny Rice, Nathaniel Rivers, Michele Simmons, Kristen Seas Trader, and John Tinnell.

Race, Systemic Racism, and Critical Literacies led by Steven Alvarez, April Baker-Bell, Carmen Kynard, and Eric Darnell Pritchard.

Environmental Communication and Environmental Justice, led by Laurie Grobman, Donnie Sackey, and Stephanie Wade.

Feminisms, Activism, and Community Writing, led by Jenn Fishman and others, TBD.

Eli Goldblatt will facilitate a discussion on Community Writing in a Time of Violence.

Iris Ruiz and Raul Sanchez will facilitate a roundtable discussion with authors from their new collection, Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords.

We will also have several performances, meals, and time for networking and socializing.  

Please note that non-academic community partner presenters have free registration.   

You can find the “Engaging Networks and Ecologies” CFP here: http://www.communitywriting.org/cfp/.

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Best,

Veronica

Veronica House, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Service-Learning and Outreach
Founder and Chair, Conference on Community Writing

Program for Writing and Rhetoric

317 UCB
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309

http://www.colorado.edu/pwr/service_learning.html
http://www.communitywriting.org