The UNM Writing
Across Communities Initiative Presents…
The 2012 Writing
the World Symposium
A regional, interdisciplinary conversation on
literacy, ecology & social justice
Theme:
“Ecotones: Productive Spaces, Converging Communities”
Dates:
April 18-20, 2012
Call for Papers (Regional – Graduate Students): Click here
Call for Posters (UNM Undergraduate Students): Click here
Call for Films (Regional –
Students & Public): Click here
Program: Forthcoming
Flyer: Forthcoming
Teaching Resources: Forthcoming
Event Description:
An
ecotone is a space wherein distinct ecological communities converge, resulting
in rich diversity and unpredictable creative potential. In a broad sense, an
ecotone might be a neighborhood, border town, cultural practice, artistic
production, historical moment, or scientific observation. Ecotones emerge when
one academic discipline informs another, academy meets community,
civilization dialogues with nature, and theory enters into practice. Ecotones
challenge us to deconstruct, consolidate and recreate our identities as
neighbors, citizens, scholars, and environmental stewards. By serving as its
own kind of ecotone—a productive space where communities converge—the Writing
the World Symposium hopes to foster meaningful conversations that point the way
to direct and influential action.
Preliminary Schedule of Events
(Subject to Change):
Film Screening
(Wed, Apr 18, 6-9pm, Domenici Center Theater)
·
Film Screening of Call of Life, followed by a discussion
with Allen D. Kanner
·
Short films by community members
and undergraduate and graduate students at UNM and across the southwest
Concurrent Graduate Student Panel Sessions (Thurs-Fri,
Apr 19-20, 8-11:00am, SUB Lobo & Acoma A&B)
Undergraduate Poster
Presentations (Thurs-Fri, Apr 19-20, 11am-2pm, SUB
Atrium)
Featured Speakers
(Thurs-Fri, Apr 19-20, 11:30am-3pm,
SUB Ballroom B)
Thurs, Apr 19
·
11:30am-1pm:
Allen D. Kanner – “Occupy
the Intersection: Large-Scale Systemic Change and Personal Growth”
·
1-2pm: Michele Eodice – “Setting the (Eco)Tone for
Campus and Community Writing”
·
2-3pm: Panel on Citizen
Journalism (Speakers/Title TBA)
Fri,
Apr 20
·
11:30am-1pm: Paul Kei Matsuda – “Toward a Pedagogy of Inclusion: Academic Writing in
Linguistically Diverse U.S. Higher Education”
·
1-2pm:
Judith Hendry – “Communicating
Climate Change: A Rhetorical Crisis”
·
2-3pm:
Panel on Media Issues (Speakers/Title TBA)
Featured Speakers:
Michele Eodice is the Executive
Director of Learning, Teaching, & Writing, a unit at the University of
Oklahoma that includes a teaching center, the Expository Writing Program, the
writing center, and writing across campus initiatives. Dr. Eodice has published
in several areas, including collaboration, co-authoring, academic integrity and
plagiarism, and writing center theory and practice. With her co-authors, she
has published two books, (First Person)2: A Study of Co-Authoring in the Academy (2001) and The Everyday Writing Center: A Community of
Practice (2007). Currently her work at OU includes studies of general
education, assessment, retention, and undergraduate research.
Judith Hendry joined the
faculty in the Department of Communication and Journalism at UNM in 1998. Her
research is in the area of environmental communication with an emphasis in
environmental rhetoric. She is the author of the book, Communication and the Natural World, which is an in-depth
exploration of how the ways in which we communicate about the natural world
influence, and to a large degree, determine how we view and treat it. The book
is currently being used in classrooms across the country and around the world.
She is on the editorial board of the Environmental
Communication: A Journal of Nature
and Culture and is past president of the Environmental Communication
Division of the National Communication Association.
Allen D. Kanner, Ph.D.,
received his undergraduate (1974) and graduate (1981) psychology degrees from
U.C. Berkeley and was a post-doctoral fellow in clinical child psychology at
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1981-83). Early in his career he
conducted research in the area of stress, positive experience, and health,
developing both the adult and children's Hassles and Uplifts Scales, which
continue to be used today. He was also on staff at Children's Hospital at
Stanford’s Roth Clinic, an inpatient unit that specializes in treating children
with psychosomatic illness. In 1986 he moved into full-time private practice,
seeing children, families, adults and couples. After moving to Berkeley in
1989, he taught at the Wright Institute for ten years, including six years as
co-instructor of an experiential multi-cultural psychology seminar and five
years as an associate faculty case conference leader. In the 1990’s Kanner
helped establish the field of ecopsychology through teaching, leading
workshops, organizing conferences and co-editing the leading text in the field,
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth,
Healing the Mind. Within ecopsychology he has focused on consumerism,
technology and globalization, and in 2001 co-founded the advocacy group CCFC
(Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood). Currently, he is in private
practice in Berkeley and writes a column for Tikkun Magazine. He is also co-editor of Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a
Materialistic World.
Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of
English at Arizona State University, where he works closely with students in
the Ph.D. Program in Rhetoric, Composition and Linguistics, the Ph.D. Program
in Applied Linguistics, and the Master's in TESOL program. He has published
widely on second language writing in various journals and edited collections in
applied linguistics, rhetoric and composition and TESOL. A sought after
speaker, he has given plenary and keynote talks at various regional, national
and international conferences. He has also been giving lectures and conducting
workshops at a wide variety of institutions in China, Hong Kong, Japan,
Malaysia, Mexico, Qatar, Taiwan, Thailand, and throughout the United States.
Paul is founding chair of the Symposium on Second Language Writing and of the
CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing, and has served as the Chair of the
Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL (NNEST) Caucus. He has edited numerous
books and special journal issues on second language writing. He is the Series
Editor of the Parlor Press Series on Second Language Writing. Currently, he
serves as the Director of Second Language Writing within the Writing Programs
at Arizona State University. He has previously served as the director of
writing programs at the University of New Hampshire and Arizona State University.
Prior to coming to ASU, Paul taught a wide variety of undergraduate and
graduate courses at Purdue University, Miami University, and the University of
New Hampshire. He has also held visiting professor and researcher positions at
Nagoya University (Japan), Tamkang University (Taiwan), Thammasat University
(Thailand), Penn State University (USA), the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong
SAR), and the University of Utah (USA).
Event Sponsors
Contact Information &
Steering Committee:
Chair: Deb Paczynski (dpaczyns@unm.edu)
Submissions: wtw.symposium@gmail.com
Committee Members: Cathy Arellano,
Leslie Fishburn-Clark, Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, Brian Hendrickson, Judith
Hendry, Anna Knutson, Ann Lyn Hall, Jamal Martin, Don McIver, Elissia Julia
Torres, Deb Paczynski, Lawrence Roybal, Trevor Schmitt, Estela Vasquez
Faculty Advisor: Michelle Hall
Kells