Call for proposals
Expanding Literacy Studies is an International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students to be held April 3-5, 2009, at The Ohio State University.
Literacy Studies is a recent construct. At the same time, it addresses long-standing questions and concerns within and across disciplines. But what is literacy? Who is studying it? And how is it being studied?
Literacy is traditionally defined as reading and writing. Contemporary constructs, however, include everything from cyber and health literacy to mathematical and visual literacy. The potential advance this broadened view might represent is complicated by historical myths about literacy, persistent fears about declines in literacy, and failure to connect literacy research across disciplines.
Addressing the need for an expanded conversation about literacy that exceeds disciplinary boundaries, this conference is a space for graduate and professional students from all fieldsto ask questions, consider directions, examine representations, make connections, and share investigations of literacy, broadly defined. This conference aims to expand the dialogue and explore the landscape and intersections of literacy studies as a framework of critical investigation. This approach is meant to do the double work of expanding the field while critiquing the expansion. To that end, we invite proposals from graduate and professional students in ALLfields.
POSSIBLE TOPICS AND POINTS OF ENTRY:
- health literacy
- literacy and technology
- visual literacy
- representations of literacy
- definitions of literacy
- law and literacy
- art literacy
- uses and abuses of literacy
- motivations for literacy
- symbol systems
- the sociology of literacy
- the teaching of literacy
- reading and writing
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- literacy and science
- performances of literacy
- literacy and popular culture
- the future of literacy
- histories of literacy
- intersections of literacy
- production and consumption of texts
- multiple literacies
- the literacy myth
- literacy and social change
- sites of literacy
- literacy in communities
- work literacy
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WAYS TO PARTICIPATE:
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Facilitate a Roundtable Conversation
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Lead an Interactive Workshop
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Present a Creative Performance or Work of Art
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Participate on a Panel (present a paper or discuss a poster)
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Serve as a Discussant on a Panel of Presentations
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Share and Discuss Your Research in a Dissertation Workshop
WAYS TO COLLABORATE:
To facilitate cross-discipline and cross-institutional collaboration on proposals, we will begin posting requests for collaborators on the conference website immediately. Visit the site to connect with people who have submitted requests and/or submit your own request for collaborators. Please include a description of the topic and format (presentation, performance, workshop, etc.) you are interested in collaborating on, along with your contact information.
CONFERENCE SPECIAL FEATURES:
DEADLINE:
We will begin reviewing conference proposals September 1, 2008.
Proposalswill not be accepted after October 15, 2008.
To learn more about the conference and to submit proposals, please go tohttp://literacystudies.osu.edu/conference.
This conference is sponsored by Literacy Studies @ The Ohio State University.
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The Council of Graduate Students needs more graduate students to know about their ability to get involved as a delegate and the Council wants to ensure all departments have representation in the upcoming academic year. CGS is hosting the direct election for all departments in an online framework via
http://cgs.osu.edu. If Your help is very important as it helps ensure that graduate student representation will continue to be in place at the university-wide level as graduate education continues to get more focus from institutional and external policy makers.
