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Here, at last, what you've been waiting for with bated breath: the Inkshed 2000 Call--perhaps not as exciting as a moose call, but right up there among conference calls. We're trying to do as instructed at the CASLL business meeting, i.e., we've tried to make room for various particular interests in relation to the broad theme, "Resisting Teaching," suggested at that meeting, and we've reserved lots of time for Inkshedding and other interactive discourse. To read the pretty version of the call--and to get the proposal form--visit <http://www.sfu.ca/writing-centre/Inkshed2000.htm>www.sfu.ca/writing-centre /Inkshed2000.htm or check the CASLL/Inkshed site for a link (which should be up soon). To read an okay version of the call, open the attachment--but you'll still have to get the proposal form off our web site or out of the forthcoming newsletter. If you are having trouble getting at either of these versions, the words of the call (probably with formatted deleted or mangled follows----but you'll still have to get the proposal form out of the forthcoming newsletter or, with the help of a friend, off our web site. Inkshed 2000 will, within mere days, have its own email address, which we're pretty sure will be [log in to unmask] We look forward to greeting you at Bowen Island, BC (where the food is no longer from the 50s). The Simon Fraser University Writing Centre invites presentation proposals for Inkshed 2000 11-14 May at Bowen Island, BC Resisting Teaching (in and out of the classroom) Whether this is the first Inkshed of a millennium or, for the arithmetically precise, the last Inkshed of the old millennium, it seems a good moment to look back in order to look forward retrospectively. Our theme is “Resisting Teaching,” which in its various senses has been a theme in many Inksheds past. It seems to us a wonderfully ambiguous theme, totally appropriate for Inkshed 2000, and we hope you will each spin it in ways that work for you where you work and live. In and out of the classroom; reading and writing; literature and literacy; kindergarten through workplace and social space; classrooms, writing centres, cross-cultural settings, on-line, distance education, workplaces, community centres . . . . Here, just to get you started, are some ways we’ve read “Resisting Teaching”: Students as central learning as primary, resisting being constructed as “Teacher.” Teaching and learning as inquiry, students as researchers, learning and teaching as socio-culturally diverse, hence multicultural pedagogies of inclusion and enfranchisement, negotiated pedagogies. Teaching literacy in so-called non-traditional sites: writing centres, on-line, distance education, community centres, unions, workplaces, prisons, beaches . . . . Learning/teaching as activity subversive to oppressive schooling and exploitative workplaces, literacy as threat, literacy as play, literacy as desire; learnng/teaching as activity that reinstantiates socio-political hierarchies and exploitations, literacy as cooption. None of the above. [“Whatever?”] As instructed, we designed a program with defined time for discussion, inkshedding and other interactivity. Presentations will fill the remaining time, and will not be allowed beyond the boundaries of the time remaining. We have created spaces for various types of presentations. (Whatever you are planning to present, please imagine and propose it in at least two of these forms.) stand-alone posters or other exhibits (e.g., reading table) 5-minute formal presentation, which may be amplified by posters or other exhibits 20-minute talks or papers 45-minute group activities (which should not include more than 15 minutes of presentation and likely should include some sort of inkshedding) In addition to the usual contact information (see form), your proposal should include a 200-word “abstract” of what you would present. If you are seeking to present n one of the 45-minute group activity slots, please explain also what the activities would be. Proposal deadline: 14 January 2000 Address: Inkshed 2000, Writing Centre, English Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Program Committee: Kathryn Alexander, Rick Coe, Shurli Makmillen, K.J. Peters, Yaying Zhang