Travel + Publishing Opportunities
IWCA Writing Center Summer Institute
June 23–28, 2013
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The International Writing Centers Association (an NCTE Assembly) annual Summer Institute is ideal for current or would-be writing center and writing program administrators, tutors, writing teachers, curriculum developers, graduate students, new PhDs, and academic leaders both in the U.S. and abroad. Institute leaders offer presentations and roundtable discussions on a variety of topics that connect theory and practice. Leaders are available to meet one-on-one with participants throughout the week.
Leaders for the 2013 Writing Center Summer Institute are:
- Shanti Bruce, Nova Southeastern University
- Rusty Carpenter, Eastern Kentucky University
- Kevin Dvorak, Nova Southeastern University
- Ben Rafoth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Carol Severino, University of Iowa
The 2013 Summer Institute will be held on the beach June 23-28, 2013 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Enrollment is now open and limited to the first 30 registrants. Scholarships are available. For more information, please visit the website or contact the institute co-chairs: Kevin Dvorak or Ben Rafoth.
Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer Conference
June 25-26, 2013
The Center for Engaged Learning
Elon University, Elon, North Carolina
From high school English and first-year college composition through advanced professional and technical communication, writing curricula are constructed under a foundational premise that writing can be taught - and that writing knowledge can be "transferred" across critical transitions. First-year composition is often a required course for all students with the assumption that what is learned there will transfer to other coursework and throughout students' educational careers. Senior capstone courses often integrate writing instruction that is intended to transfer to post-graduation writing in new workplaces or graduate or professional programs. Arguably, all of modern education is based on the broader assumption that what one learns here can transfer over there - across critical transitions. But what do we really know about transfer, in general, and writing transfer, in particular? Is "transfer," and all of the assumptions that tag along with it, the best term to use to understand, enhance, and found writing education?
The Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer Conference will feature multi-institutional research conducted through the 2011-2013 Elon University Research Seminar and will introduce a draft "Statement on Writing Transfer." We invite other scholars to join this culminating conversation and to share their own research related to the following themes:
- Theories and practices of writing transfer
- Writing transfer at critical transitions
- Genre theory and writing transfer
- Writing transfer and implications for general education
- The future of writing transfer: New directions and trends in writing transfer research
Conference registration will open in February. Attendees will have two registration options:
- Conference registration with opening reception, 5 meals, and on-campus housing: $225
- Conference registration with opening reception and 5 meals only (no on-campus housing): $125
For those staying in Elon's on-campus housing, the conference organizers will provide limited shuttle service from/to Raleigh Durham airport (RDU).
For more information, contact Jessie L. Moore at jmoore28@elon.edu or writingtransfer@elon.edu.
The Georgia Conference on Information Literacy
Aug. 23-24, 2013
Savannah, Georgia
Proposoal Deadline: March 15, 2013
The Georgia Conference on Information Literacy invites proposals across disciplines for workshops and presentations that will consider, extend, or otherwise address information literacy in K-12 and postsecondary settings:
- Defining information literacy in a digital age
- Effective means of developing information literacy skills in learners
- Partnerships between librarians and classroom teachers to teach students research skills
- Information literacy across the disciplines
- Assessment of information literacy initiatives
- Intellectual property, copyright, and plagiarism in the digital age
Conference organizers welcome international participants and proposal submissions, in order to broaden and share knowledge regarding information literacy practice, theory and research in a variety of cultural settings worldwide. Please note, however, that presentations must be in English and that the conference cannot provide funding for attendees or for presenters.
Keynote Speaker: Alison Head, Ph.D.
Executive Director and Lead Researcher
Project Information Literacy, Sonoma, California
Presentation Title: "Information Literacy through the Lens of the Student Experience"
For more information, visit the conference website.
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
12th Annual Conference
Jan. 10-13, 2014
Honolulu, Hawaii
Proposal Deadline: Aug. 16, 2013
The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held at two venues: the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort and the Hilton Waikiki Beach Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference is to provide opportunities for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities related fields to meet and learn from each other.
For information about submitting a proposal, visit the conference website.
2014 Writing Research Across Borders III Conference
Feb. 19-22, 2014
Paris, France
Proposal Deadline: April 1, 2013
Following on the writing research conferences in 2008 at the University of California Santa Barbara and in 2011 at George Mason University in Washington DC, the next conference on writing research across borders will be held in Paris, France, in February, 2014, under the auspices of the newly formed International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research (ISAWR).
The University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre la Défense will host this scientific event. The conference, which will be held for the first time in Europe, will offer the opportunity for encounters among different writing research traditions.
This conference brings together the many writing researchers from around the world, drawing on all disciplines, and focused on all aspects of writing at all levels of development and in all segments of society. This conference will be not only an event allowing for dissemination of knowledge established by writing research, but also a space to promote encounters among different approaches to writing, and among different writing research communities. New projects and new collaborations will flourish.
Several key questions will be at the heart of the debates and discussions: what does it mean to write in the 21st century? In these times of multimedia technologies and globalization, in an era where the frontiers are blurring between the intimate and the social, between the private and the professional, what does writing now mean? How might we respond to major societal challenges and face inequalities in access to writing? Are our currently-available research methodologies and tools up to the task of helping us to better understand what writing is, its functionalities, how it is acquired, its role in personal development, its history?
We invite you to contribute to this communal reflection by proposing a presentation to the conference. Four types of presentation are planned:
- Individual 30-minutes presentations followed by ten minutes of Q+A.
- Symposia featuring several scholars working on related questions (duration: 2 hours). These symposia can take two shapes: team symposia and symposia bringing together several scholars from different teams or countries. This second type of symposium is strongly encouraged because it will make best use of the conference by making it the site of intellectual exchange and collective work.
- Roundtables focused on debates and commonalities (duration: 2 hours). The author of the proposal provides the theme and the topics that will be discussed during the roundtable.
- Poster presentations of work in progress.
Presentations can be grounded in quite diverse fields: linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, didactics, sociology, rhetoric, historical studies, ethnography, anthropology, or any other disciplinary tradition.
For information about submitting a proposal, visit the conference website.