Brown Bag Workshops, Fall 2008
(in Humanities shared faculty lounge)
Wed. 10/15--Ron Overton:
"The I-Search Essay"
Wed. 10/22--Astrid Wimmer:
"An Option for Teaching Analysis: The Zones Workshop"
Wed. 11/5--Richard Buch:
"Writing Across the Curriculum: Making the Connection"
Wed. 11/12--Rita Nezami:
"Bringing Visual Rhetoric to the Classroom"
SUNY Council on Writing (SUNY COW) 2008
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Inevitable Intersections: Writing at the Crossroads of Public and Private Discourse in the 21st Century
Inevitable Intersections: Writing at the Crossroads of Public and Private Discourse in the 21st Century
2008 Annual Conference of the SUNY Council on Writing
April 25-26, 2008
Stony Brook University
Keynote Speaker, Sondra Perl, Professor of English, Lehman College, CUNY Graduate Center
Guest Workshop Leader, Sheridan Blau, Professor, Teachers’ College, Columbia University
Friday, 4/25
All Friday events are in the Student Activities Center—Ballroom
Student Activities Center
4:30-5:15
Registration & Reception
Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar
5:15-7:00
Dinner
Buffet and cash bar
7:00-7:15
Brief Commentary: Writing Assessment in New York State
Pat Belanoff, Stony Brook University
7:15-9:00
SUNY Council on Writing Business Meeting
All are welcome
Saturday, 4/26
9:00-10:00
Registration Student Activities Center
9:30-10:00
Breakfast Student Activities Center Ballroom
10:00
Welcome
Mark Aronoff, Professor, Linguistics, Vice-Provost for Curriculum
10:10 - 11:20 SAC 302
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
“Writing in the 21st Century: When Your Private is My Public”
Sondra Perl, Professor of English and Urban Education, The Graduate Center and Lehman College, CUNY.
Author of _On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate_ SUNY Press, 2005. And _Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction_ Houghton-Mifflin, 2006.
11:30-12:50
Session 1A SAC 303
Round Table: Audience, Assessment, and Public/Private Tension in a Visible Writing Program
Moderator: Tara Roeder, St. John’s University
Participants:
Roseanne Gatto, St. John’s University
Brian Fallon, St. John’s University
April Sikorski, St. John’s University
Session 1B SAC 302
The Creative Composition Kitchen: From Pamphlets to Radio to the Naked Stage
Panelists:
The Return of the Pamphleteer: Public Writing in College Composition
Stephanie Wade, Stony Brook Southampton
Teaching the Commentary: Public Writing and Public Performing
Heather Dune Macadam, Stony Brook Southampton
Turning MySpace into Our Space: Making the Private Public in the Classroom
Josh Perl, Stony Brook Southampton
Session 1C SAC 304
Moderator: Astrid Wimmer, Stony Brook University
It Happens As We Speak
Pat Falk, Nassau Community College
Narratives as Private and Public: Hannah Arendt’s Storytelling
Arabella Lyon, SUNY Buffalo
Revisiting the Use of Personal Narrative in Composition Classes
Maryanne Cole, SUNY Alfred State
Session 1D SAC 305
Roundtable: Non-Tenure Track Faculty Issues
Session Leader:
Michael Murphy, SUNY Oswego
Going Public: The Politics of Working Conditions, Program Review, and Collective Organization
Kelly Kinney, SUNY Binghamton
Professional Development, Faculty Governance, and the Non-Tenure Track Instructor
Cynthia Davidson, Stony Brook University
Session 1E SAC 306
Teachers-Tutors, Tutor-Teachers: A Conflict in Aims?
Panelists:
Jack Morales, Community College of Allegheny County
Lance Pahucki, SUNY Orange
Daniel Preston, SUNY Oswego
Session 1F SAC 309
Moderator: Ryan Calvey, Stony Brook University
The Impact of Private Discourse in the Writing Center
Valerie Tober, SUNY Alfred State
Publicly Private: The Writing Tutoring Conundrum
Nichole Bennett-Bealer, SUNY College at Plattsburgh
Office Spaces: The Public of Private Adjunct Agon
George Weinschenk, Broome Community College
Session 1G Melville Library E4310
Moderator: Annessa Babic, Stony Brook University
Panelists:
Expanding Regions of Communication in Ecocomposition
Mary Newell, Centenary College
Writing to Learn in Introductory Sociology
Jacqueline Corrigan, Fashion Institute of Technology
Perceptions of Writing Assignments: Students and Faculty in the Sciences
David Greene, Farmingdale State College
Session 1H Melville Library E4315
Moderator: Carolyn Sofia, Stony Brook University
Composition and its Discontents: Creativity and Transference in the Classroom
Elizabeth Harris McCormick, CUNY Graduate Center
Beyond Catharsis: The Dialectic of Public and Private in Writing and Healing
Wendy Ryden, Long Island University, C.W. Post
Reading,Writing, Witnessing: Personal Narratives of Trauma in the First Year Seminar
Ann E. Wallace, Adelphi University
Session 1I Melville Library E4320
Moderator: Jody Cardinale
Publicizing the Private: Personal Discourse Go Public in Web 2.0
Victoria Currier, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
MySpace/OurSpace: The Use of Blogs in the Writing Classroom
David Farley, St. John’s University
Session 1J SAC 311
Moderator: Tom Tousey, Stony Brook University
What is Cliché?
William Marderness, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Hearing the Personal Voice in a Text and Writing Responses
Ann R. Shapiro, Farmingdale State College
Teaching the Intersection of Private and Public Discourse As a Moral Philosophy
Stephen Pierson, Syracuse University
1:00 – 1:45
Lunch
2:00-3:20
FEATURED SESSION
Session 2A SAC 302
Academic Literacy as Participation: Inducting Students into an Intellectual Community
Sheridan Blau, Guest Workshop Leader
Professor of English and Education, University of California, Santa Barbara (presently Visiting Professor at Teachers College, Columbia
Former President of NCTE, author of The Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and their Readers. (2003) and "College Writing, Academic Literacy & the Intellectual Community..." (2006).
Session 2B SAC 303
Coming Clean and Correct: Private Assumptions about Writing Center Work on Campus and Beyond
Moderator: Chris Leary, St. John’s University
Participants:
Anthony Eid, St. John’s University
Jennifer Fontanez, St. John’s University
Joseph Kenny, St. John’s University
Hadia Sheerazi, St. John’s University
Harry Denny, St. John’s University
Session 2C Melville Library E4310
Merging Visions: Diversity in Writing and Speaking in the Composition Classroom (an experiential workshop)
Presenters:
Mary E. Fakler, SUNY New Paltz
Joan E. Perisse, SUNY New Paltz
Penny Freel, SUNY New Paltz
Session 2D Melville Library E4315
Vice-Versa: Underlife Writers in Personal and Public Roles
Panelists:
Cathryn Molloy, University of Rhode Island
Bryna Siegel, University of Rhode Island
Jamie White-Farnham, University of Rhode Island
Session 2E SAC 304
Singing Lessons: Helping Students Voice the Personal in Composition and Creative Writing Classrooms
Panelists:
Christine Motto, SUNY Oswego
Katherine Riegel, SUNY Potsdam
Victoria Levitt, SUNY Potsdam
Session 2F SAC 305
Moderator: Stephanie Wade, Stony Brook Southampton
From Isolation to Integration: Connecting Private and Public Discourses in First-Year Composition
Jennifer Simonson, California State University, Fullerton
Erin Tyson, California State University, Fullerton
Here’s Something You Can Use: The Scholarly Personal Narrative
William Torgeson, St. John’s University
Finding a Right to Write: What Happens When Students Start Writing About Something Real?
Cathy Fagan, Nassau Community College
Session 2G SAC 306
Moderator: Jennifer Albanese, Stony Brook University
Authentic Writing Projects: Social Learning in the College Composition Classroom
Jeremy Fee, Tarrant County College Northwest
Remembering Freshman English Fondly? Composition, Content, and Writing Across the Curriculum
Michael Murphy, SUNY Oswego
Session 2H SAC 309
Moderator: William Marderness, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Critical Pedagogy and Student Identity: Toward an Understanding of How College Students Interpret Their Roles in the Critical Classroom
William Breeze, University of Hartford
Writing 101: Retention vs. Relearning
Lisa Elwood, Herkimer County Community College
3:20-3:40
Refreshments SAC Ballroom
3:50-5:10
Session 3A Melville Library E4310
Balancing Acts: Negotiating Program Identity and Administrative Expectations, Assessment and Faculty Development in a New Institute for Writing Studies
Participants:
Harry Denny, St. John’s University
Derek Owens, St. John’s University
Session 3B SAC 311
Teaching Writing: How Personal Does it Get?
Panelists:
Carole Deletiner, Fashion Institute of Technology
Amy Lemmon, Fashion Institute of Technology
Michael Hyde, Fashion Institute of Technology
Melissa Tombro, Fashion Institute of Technology
Session 3C SAC 306
Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Writing
Moderator: Pat Belanoff, Stony Brook University
Panelists
Jennifer Albanese, Stony Brook University
Annessa Babic, Stony Brook University
Cynthia Davidson, Stony Brook University
Wilbur Farley, Stony Brook University
Cathleen Rowley, Stony Brook University
Carolyn Sofia, Stony Brook University
Session 3D Melville Library E4315
The Rise of Technology in the Classroom: Regulating, (Re) orientating, and Engaging with Intimate Dialogues Via Online Communication
Panelists:
Meridith Leo, St. John’s University
Kerri Mulqueen, St. John’s University
Lindsay Sabatino, St. John’s University
Session 3E SAC 304
From Celebrity Graveyard to the Archives to the Composition Classroom to the Front Page: Private Musings on Public Memorials and Public Musings on Private Memories
Panelists:
Rhetorical New York: Charlotte Temple (Again) and the Agency of Celebrity
Ethna Lay, Hofstra University
The Public, the Private, and the Political: Thomas Bernhard in the Light of the Archives
Russell Harrison, Hofstra University
Private Feelings, Public Classroom
Alison Perry, Hofstra University
What I Did Over My Summer Vacation and Other Compelling Topics: Does Humanistic Writing Matter?
Frank Gaughan, Hofstra University
Pimping the Private Lives of Public Officials: The ‘Tail’ of Three Governors in the New York Post
Lisa Dresner, Hofstra University
Session 3F Melville Library E4320
Interweaving Public and Private Voices: Propelling Agency in the Classroom
Panelists:
Joyce Sauer, SUNY College at Old Westbury
Joe McElligot, Lehman College, CUNY
Jennifer Schonwetter, New Dorp High School
Leslie Akst, St. John’s University
Sponsored by...
Office of the Provost, Stony Brook University Office
Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University