[If you want to post notices of the Inkshed Conference outside CASLL -
- on other lists, for example -- and for people who don't know about
the organization, here's a call for proposals that explains more
about who we are and what the conference is. It also includes the
url for the conference web site, where you can find this call, as
well as links to the Oak Island Inn and other information.]
-- Russ
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Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning
INKSHED CONFERENCE XV
Multiple Literacies: Ethics and Responsibilities
May 7-10, 1998
Oak Island Inn, Western Shore (between Chester And Mahone Bay)
Formalized in 1993, the Canadian Association for the Study of
Language and Learning was the outgrowth of ten years of conferences
and newsletters (both called Inkshed) among Canadian scholars of
writing and reading, rhetoric and literature. CASLL's aim 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. Our members include teachers and researchers in schools,
colleges, universities, and corporations. The Inkshed conference is
the annual meeting of the discipline in Canada.
Inkshed is a working conference. Formal papers and research reports
are presented, and workshops are conducted, just as they are at other
scholarly conferences, but we also include unconventional
presentations and active participant involvement. We welcome
poster boards and performances, work-in-progress, case studies,
collaborative presentations, workshops, or interactive
demonstrations. The conference group works together on a central
issue, which is usually one that has emerged from the previous
conference.
One of the special features of the conference is the amount of
writing ("ink-shedding") we do during the conference. Some of the
individual and all of the collaborative inksheddings are published
during the conference; inkshedding furthers discussion in a focused
way rare in conferences. Another special feature is built-in
reading time for recommended articles and books.
This year's conference theme is Multiple Literacies: Ethics and
Responsibilities. We are calling for proposals which address issues
of ethics and responsibility in the literacies shifting around us.
These issues might include intellectual property, privileged groups
or discourses, authorship and anonymity on the net, behaviour codes
in electronic environments, cultural assumptions and pedagogical
responsibilities. We are also interested in sites of potential
ethical conflict such as writing resource centres, tutoring
programmes, or classes with teaching assistants. We invite you to
consider other topics linked to the main theme of ethics and
responsibility.
Proposals should include the name, addresses, and phone numbers of
the proposer and any co-presenters, a title, and an abstract
(approximately 200 words), and a brief description of the mode of
presentation. You should also explain how your presentation will
relate to the conference theme. Where two proposals are received on
very similar topics, you may be invited to collaborate with another
proposer. This is not a competitive paper call. The organizing
committee wants to include as many proposals as possible.
The 1998 conference will take place at Oak Island Inn on Nova
Scotia's storied South Shore. Look for our conference website for
more information:
http://www.stthomasu.ca/inkshed15/
Deadline for proposals: November 30, 1997
Send proposals to:
Dr. Susan Drain Phone: 902 457 6220
Department of English Fax: 902 457 6455
Mount Saint Vincent University Email: [log in to unmask]
Halifax, NS
Canada B3M 2J6
Other members of the conference team
Dr. Kenna Manos, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
([log in to unmask]), 902 494 8133
Jane Milton, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
([log in to unmask]), 902 494 8133
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Russell A. Hunt __|~_)_ __)_|~_ Aquinas Chair
St. Thomas University )_ __)_|_)__ __) PHONE: (506) 452-0424
Fredericton, New Brunswick | )____) | FAX: (506) 450-9615
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