Tuesday, June 1, the day after the CASDW conference, which starts on
the Saturday (29th) and runs on the Sunday and Monday.
Roger
Roger Graves
Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
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On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Theresa Hyland wrote:
> Roger, this would be fine for me. Are we talking about June 1st or
> May 31st? Theresa.
>
> Roger Graves wrote:
>> While registering for the CASDW conference the other day I started
>> to think about booking airfare, and that made me consider dates for
>> my return flight. We had talked on this list about an Inkshed
>> conference this year (see Brock MacDonald's message below) and
>> perhaps drawing upon shurli macmillan's ideas (1-4) for the program:
>>
>> 1. a space to share drafts with other writers working to get an
>> article publication-ready
>> 2. an opportunity to meet with others working with a particular
>> theoretical framework or concept or method intrinsic to their
>> research
>> 3. an opportunity to bring a pedagogical practice for a test-run and
>> discussion
>> 4. inkshedding and discussion in response to CASDW papers or
>> panels...
>>
>> I checked into renting a meeting room at a hotel, and the costs
>> worked out to $640 ($500 plus taxes) for the room plus whatever
>> food and drink we wanted to order (approximately $40/person for a
>> buffet lunch). With 20 people attending the room cost would be
>> roughly $30 each; the room plus lunch would be about $75 per person
>> based on 20 people registering. The room holds 36 people and can be
>> set up with round tables.
>>
>> Is there any interest in doing this? We need a decision before
>> people start booking tickets, I think.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>> Roger Graves
>> Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
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>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: Brock MacDonald <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: June 2, 2009 9:09:58 AM MDT (CA)
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Inkshed 2010
>>> Reply-To: CASLL/Inkshed <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>> Graham's forthright rejection of nostalgia for the "old Inkshed
>>> days" is actually very much in the spirit of the meeting we had in
>>> Ottawa-not that a certain amount of nostalgia wasn't expressed
>>> there, but it quickly yielded to more pragmatic considerations.
>>> Taking up Roger's call (or challenge?) to elaborate on his
>>> summary, here's my sense of the main points of our deliberations,
>>> which I hope will be helpful:
>>>
>>> We talked quite a bit about the fact that the Canadian
>>> conferencing landscape has changed since the old Inkshed days.
>>> CATTW has morphed into CASDW and now seems to meet the
>>> conferencing needs of a wider membership, with a wider range of
>>> research and teaching interests, than it used to; the formation of
>>> the Canadian Writing Centres Association (CWCA) has given that
>>> constituency a separate conference of its own. The current
>>> strength of these other conferences means that Inkshed needs to
>>> redefine its niche-it needs to offer something compelling and
>>> distinctive, if it is to continue.
>>>
>>> We all agreed that Inkshed's greatest strength was always its
>>> character as a kind of anti-conference, different from the
>>> standard ninety-minute-panel, twenty-minutes-per-talk, ten-minutes-
>>> of-questions model. However, we noted that Inkshed has actually
>>> drifted towards that standard talking-heads model in recent years,
>>> simply to accommodate the number of participants who wanted to
>>> present. This trend has meant less and less time for both
>>> inkshedding and discussion, both of which, we all agreed, were
>>> important elements of the conference.
>>>
>>> A side issue, but nevertheless a very important consideration: we
>>> agreed that Inkshed as a kind of retreat experience (three days
>>> isolated in a resort somewhere, all participants present the whole
>>> time) is no longer tenable. The cost factor puts participation
>>> out of reach for grad students and the underemployed, and it makes
>>> attending increasingly difficult even for well-established members.
>>>
>>> So, we asked ourselves, with all these things in mind, is there a
>>> need and a purpose for Inkshed now, and if so in what form? Do we
>>> in fact want something different, an anti-conference (for lack of
>>> a better term) that offers a kind of experience that CASDW and
>>> CWCA don't? Obviously, all of us who were at the Ottawa meeting
>>> agreed that we do, but this is the first question that everyone
>>> else in CASLL now needs to ponder, it seems to me, before we start
>>> thinking about the planning questions Roger has raised.
>>>
>>> In Ottawa we did go so far as to speculate that this reconfigured
>>> or reborn Inkshed might not have conventional papers at all, that
>>> it could be some kind of "working conference" (as indeed Inkshed
>>> was in some of its early years), its details, focus, process, etc
>>> to be determined later. We also came up with the schedule Roger
>>> has outlined, Inkshed following CASDW but away from the Congress
>>> site, so that it would be clearly distinct from the latter (I
>>> don't recall that we agreed that Talent Night would be on the
>>> first evening, though, Roger-I don't think it will work except at
>>> the end, considering how much of the fun is usually based on the
>>> conference itself). However, as I said, the detailed planning
>>> should really come a bit later; to Inkshed, or not to Inkshed-at
>>> all!--that's the first question.
>>>
>>> Brock
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/06/09 3:00 PM, "Graham Smart" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, OK, hoping to get a conversation started, here goes: For me
>>> the decision about whether to stay in Montreal an extra day to
>>> attend Inkshed would depend entirely on what was planned for the
>>> Tuesday. The question for me would be, will what's planned for
>>> the day contribute to my research and/or teaching in some way? To
>>> be brutally honest, feelings of nostalgia for the 'old Inkshed
>>> days' wouldn't enter the picture in any real way.
>>>
>>> Having just come back from Hong Kong, mainland China, and Vietnam,
>>> where people seem to have a much greater and wonderfully gracious
>>> sense of community, beyond the self, I realize how individualistic
>>> and self-centred this sounds, but if I'm honest, this is what I
>>> would be thinking about in making a decision.
>>>
>>> Graham
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Roger Graves <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Monday, June 1, 2009 12:27 pm
>>> Subject: Re: Inkshed 2010
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>>> I am writing to share the results of a meeting of people
>>>> interested in
>>>> attending an Inkshed conference next year who also happened to
>>>> be
>>>> attending the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse
>>>> and
>>>> Writing meeting in Ottawa May 24-26.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> About 18 people talked about the possibility of organizing an
>>>> Inkshed
>>>> conference next year. The group decided that there was interest
>>>> in
>>>> holding a conference. This group, composed of people attending
>>>> the
>>>> CASDW, felt that holding Inkshed immediately after the
>>>> CASDW
>>>> conference was a workable plan. A proposal was floated to devote
>>>> the
>>>> evening after the third day of CASDW (Monday May 31 2010) and
>>>> all day
>>>> the next day (Tuesday June 1 2010). The Monday meeting would be
>>>> held
>>>> in the McGill Graduate Student centre and consist of the AGM
>>>> and
>>>> "talent" night, and the Tuesday would the program of the
>>>> conference.
>>>> The Tuesday meeting would be held in a meeting room at one of
>>>> the
>>>> Congress hotels, and would include lunch. Inkshedders would
>>>> be
>>>> responsible for their own accommodations, breakfast, and dinner.
>>>> Costs
>>>> for the conference would likely be limited to the lunch and the
>>>> costs
>>>> of renting the meeting room.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The format and nature of the program is yet to be determined; I
>>>> am
>>>> seeking descriptions proposing what that program might look like
>>>> to
>>>> include in the next issue of the Newsletter. Please send
>>>> these to
>>>> Heather Graves ([log in to unmask]) or
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>> before July 31.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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