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Those CASLLers who can conveniently get to Greater Vancouver--i.e.,
anyone west of the Atlantic Ocean, eh???--may want to join us May 12 for
this exciting event, which celebrates the "opening" of our radically
revised and expanded Writing Centre, a Janet Giltrow creation (with
some help from her friends, where no one tutors without also be engaged in
the Centre's research.

(Did I get enuff words into that sentence?)

So, we especially invite the Vancouver Friends of Rhetoric and others who
teach postsecondary English in Lotusland (cf., Tennyson), but we hope to
see our friends from Memorial and other, less distant institutions.

Rick

P.S., Note that our department chair and conference chair will do their
introductions in zero (yes, 0) minutes so we can get immediately to
issues!

P.P.S., I think we've decided to serve decent wine instead of cheap
champagne.

> SFU English Department's
> Centre for Research in Academic Writing
>  invites you to their
> Official Opening and Conference
>
> COMPOSING OURSELVES:
> THE NEXUS OF LITERATURE AND WRITING
>
> Monday, May 12, 1997
> at the
> Halpern Centre
> Simon Fraser University
> Burnaby Campus
> 10:00 - 4:30
> followed at 4:30
> by a reception
> in AQ 5040
> The Centre for Research in Academic Writing
>
> PROGRAM:              Halpern Centre
>
> 10:00                 Welcome:
>                       Kathy Mezei
>                       Chair, SFU English Department
>
>                       Sam Wong
>                       Conference Chair
>
> 10:00 - 11:30         Len Findlay
> "Composing Value and Valuing Composition in Canadian Universities"
>
> 11:45 - 1:00          Lunch $5.00 **
>
> 1:00 - 2:30           Susan Miller
> "Teaching Now:  Authority and Interpretation in Contemporary English Studies"
>
> 3:00 - 4:00           Roundtable  Response
>
>                       Writing Centre (AQ 5040)
>
> 4:30                  Official Opening and Reception:                         Janet Giltrow
>                       Director, Centre for Research in Academic Writing
>
>
> ** Lunch Reservations and General Information:  contact Heather Skibeneckyj
> by May 7 ([log in to unmask] or 291-4835) or Elaine Dornan ([log in to unmask]).
> Please indicate if you prefer a vegetarian lunch.
>
>
>       The SFU English Department welcomes Len Findlay, Susan Miller, and all
> others participating in the discussion of the relationship between
> literature and writing.
>
>       Len Findlay is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities
> Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan.  Prof. Findlay has
> published extensively on nineteenth-century British literature and literary
> and cultural theory.  Recent publications on the history and definition of
> English as a discipline include Value and the University (1993) and
> Realizing Community: Multidisciplinary Essays (1996).  Prof. Findlay's
> essay on "The Divine Legation of Northrop Frye" was awarded the Priestley
> Prize for 1994.
>
>       Susan Miller is Professor of English at the University of Utah, where she
> teaches writing, theory of rhetoric and composition, and cultural studies,
> and was founding Director of Utah's cross-curricular University Writing
> Program.  Her publications include "The Feminization of Composition"
> (1992);   Written Worlds:  Reading and Writing Cultures (1990, 1993);
> Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer
> (1989); and Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition (1991).  She has
> recently completed Assuming the Positions:   Cultural Pedagogy and the
> Politics of Ordinary Writing (1998).