I thank you for the opportunity Inkshed provided to participate in an
academic community. I have "used" , though very gently, inkshedding
techniques in multiple settings in among others conferences in Costa Rica,
China and the US of A. The courage to do so was in every way aligned to
the spirited yet open introduction I was provided to inkshedding.
Many thanx
Michael J. Ryan
On 11 April 2017 at 10:14, Kenna Manos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear fellow Inkshedders,
> Like Russ and Anthony, I attended our first working conference in
> 1984. Inkshed has informed my teaching life ever since.
> As nineteenth-century poetry specialist, I had suddenly been
> transported to teaching "writing" in 1974. My national community at that
> point was ACUTE (as it was then spelled), a traditional talking heads'
> conference whose members viewed writing as a discrete skill, like riding a
> bicycle. Once you got it, you got it.
> I had no larger group to talk to, to question assumptions with, to
> argue with, to work through half-baked ideas about real writing in real
> contexts. Over many years, Inkshed became not only a cherished cohort of
> companions, but also my central intellectual
> community. (And although I wasn't part of the group that proclaimed
> itself "dysfunctional" during the year we tried to write together, I was
> certainly pushed often well outside my comfort zone---for which I am hugely
> grateful.)
> My debt to Inkshed continues in my current work with Grades 3-6 in a
> small Quaker community in the mountains of Costa Rica, where I teach for
> six months of the year.
>
> Thank you, my friends.
> Kenna
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Provost, MC Lois <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> This is indeed sad. And how could Inkshed have metamorphosed to include
>> other languages and dual language learning, bilingual language learning and
>> interlanguage learning at a time when our society most needs
>> intercommunication ...
>> Lois
>> --
>> Provost, MC Lois
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>> on hiatus and Scholar Residency in New York
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>> Sacred Music and Arts
>> Mother Language Teaching & Learning
>> Founding Head, World Indigenous (Mestisaje) Teaching & Learning Centre
>> Circle
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>> University of Toronto
>> Social Justice Education
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>> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 18:36:13 +0000
>> From: "Paré, Anthony" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: "casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and
>> Learning (Inkshed)" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Farewell to Inkshed
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> As a participant at the first Inkshed conference, a regular attendee for
>>> 13 years in a row, an Inkshed conference organizer (twice), an early
>>> Inkshed Newsletter editor, and a frequent newsletter contributor, this
>>> news makes me feel sad and nostalgic. The community was absolutely central
>>> to my development as a teacher and researcher. And, most importantly, as a
>>> human being; no other scholarly collective in my experience was so
>>> welcoming of me as a whole person.
>>>
>>> But I do reluctantly support the Board’s decision. I think Brock is
>>> right on in his analysis; all things must pass.
>>>
>>> Thanks to Brock, Clare, Kim, J. Barbara, and Dena for steering the ship
>>> to shore.
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: "casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and
>>> Learning (Inkshed)" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
>>> [log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Brock MacDonald <
>>> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>> Reply-To: "casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and
>>> Learning (Inkshed)" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:
>>> [log in to unmask]>>
>>> Date: Monday, April 10, 2017 at 7:57 AM
>>> To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>"
>>> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>> Subject: Farewell to Inkshed
>>>
>>> Hi, all.
>>>
>>> (I’m sending this message to both the CASLL and CASDW lists, in the
>>> hope of reaching all former Inkshedders. Apologies for duplications!)
>>>
>>> The announcement Roger Graves recently sent out re the latest book from
>>> Inkshed Publications makes this a timely message . . .
>>>
>>> This is the second year in a row without an Inkshed conference. None
>>> of our efforts to reboot and reinvigorate the conference in the years 2012
>>> through 2015, though sometimes moderately successful as one-off meetings,
>>> have generated the collective commitment needed to truly revive Inkshed
>>> and keep it going. Taking stock of this situation, the CASLL Board of
>>> Directors has decided that it’s finally time to face the music and accept
>>> that Inkshed and its parent association aren’t coming back. (Re the
>>> association, it effectively no longer exists: for several years now there
>>> have been no paid-up members apart from some of us on the Board and
>>> Margaret Procter, who manages the Inkshed/CASLL website.)
>>>
>>> No doubt there are a number of reasons for this situation: one is the
>>> growth of CWCA in recent years, based on its great success in bringing
>>> together the Canadian Writing Centre community; another is the way that
>>> CASDW has become a big tent association for Canadian writing studies and
>>> writing pedagogy in general since its metamorphosis from CATTW. Most
>>> pertinent of all may be the fact that a great many (almost all?) of
>>> Inkshed’s founding generation of members have retired in recent years: the
>>> core of the community that once sustained the conference and its parent
>>> association just isn’t there any more.
>>>
>>> I’m sure many of us will feel some sadness about this, remembering how
>>> significant Inkshed has been in our professional lives. However, although
>>> the Board has decided that it’s time to shut CASLL down, this isn’t an
>>> absolute ending. The Board proposes to transfer the remaining funds in
>>> the CASLL bank account, roughly $7000.00, to Inkshed Publications. Unlike
>>> the Inkshed conference, Inkshed publications is very much alive: besides
>>> the recently published Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies, it has
>>> two more books coming out in the near future, following which it will
>>> still have sufficient funds to produce perhaps one more. The infusion of
>>> the funds from CASLL will make possible up to four more books over the
>>> next few years, following which new funding will be needed, perhaps from
>>> CASDW and CWCA. According to its Constitution, the purpose of CASLL is
>>> "to provide a forum and common context for discussion, collaboration, and
>>> reflective inquiry in discourse and pedagogy in the areas of writing,
>>> reading (including the reading of literature), rhetoric, and language.”
>>> We on the CASLL Board feel that devoting the association’s remaining funds
>>> to supporting Inkshed Publications, the one and only Canadian imprint
>>> devoted to work in our field, is the best way to ensure that CASLL’s
>>> dissolution is in keeping with its fundamental purpose.
>>>
>>> Regarding the association's online presence: it's currently (and rather
>>> awkwardly) in two cyber-places, the Inkshed newletter/blog site that
>>> Margaret maintains (http://www.inkshed.ca/blog/) and the older Inkshed
>>> site (http://inkshed.ca/), now essentially an archive of material from
>>> the association’s earlier years. Ideally all the association’s records
>>> should be brought together on one site, either under the aegis of CASDW or
>>> as part of an independent Inkshed Publications site (which would be
>>> effectively a repurposed version of the Inkshed newsletter site, where
>>> Inkshed Publications currently has its online presence). The key thing is
>>> that the association’s archive needs to be maintained by an active
>>> organization to ensure its long-term viability. This will be on the
>>> agenda for discussion at the CASDW AGM at Congress. As for the CASLL list
>>> serve, once the association has been dissolved it would be shut down.
>>>
>>> I should say something regarding the constitutional aspects of
>>> dissolving CASLL. The one explicit mention of dissolution procedures in
>>> the CASLL constitution is a clause that says "In case of dissolution of
>>> the association, the profits and liabilities of the association will be
>>> shared equally among all of the paid-up current voting members.” The
>>> Board’s plan to transfer the association’s remaining funds to Inskhed
>>> Publications is in effect an agreement among the paid-up current voting
>>> members to use their “shares” that way, rather than simply cashing out
>>> (!!).
>>>
>>> As for the decision to dissolve the association, while there is no
>>> specified procedure for this, the constitution does say that "The Board of
>>> Directors of the association shall have the responsibility of carrying out
>>> the management of the association. This responsibility should be carried
>>> out with the knowledge and cooperation of the membership.” In our view,
>>> in the absence of any specific clause re dissolution, it clearly comes
>>> under “management of the association.” As for "the knowledge and
>>> cooperation of the membership," as I’ve already mentioned, at present the
>>> membership is effectively non-existent, leaving the Board on its own.
>>> However, in keeping with the spirit of the constitution, the Board agreed
>>> that this notice should be sent out: we hope it will reach all former
>>> CASLL members and prompt some discussion, from which we further hope will
>>> emerge general agreement in support of the decision we’ve taken.
>>>
>>> If there is strong opposition to the Board's decision, those opposed
>>> would need to take a number of steps to give their opposition effect,
>>> starting with paying fees in order to become current CASLL members and
>>> thus be entitled to vote on the Board’s plan. If a sudden flood of
>>> membership payments materializes, obviously we’ll have to think again!
>>> However, we sincerely hope that this will not happen — that everyone will
>>> agree that it’s best to bid CASLL and Inkshed a fond farewell and let them
>>> rest in peace.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Brock
>>>
>>> On behalf of the CASLL Board of Directors (membership as of 2016, when
>>> we met and made this decision): Clare Bermingham, Kim Garwood, J. Barbara
>>> Rose, and Dena Taylor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> W. Brock MacDonald
>>> Vice-Principal
>>> Director, Academic Writing Centre
>>> Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
>>> 119 St. George Street
>>> Toronto, ON M5S-1A9
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