UNH Conference
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LITERACIES – PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL, ACADEMIC
The University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire
October 12 - 13, 2007Keynote Speakers
PAUL KEI MATSUDA, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Voice in Personal, Professional and Academic Writing
ELLEN CUSHMAN, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Cherokees Making Meaning: Digital Technologies for Cultural Preservation and Identity Formation
GWENDOLYN D. POUGH, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Reading, Writing, Rapping: Black Women’s Popular Literacies from Hip-Hop to Book Clubs
STUART SELBER, PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
Digital Literacy FuturesThe University of New Hampshire is pleased to sponsor the 11th in a series of conferences on Composition Studies.
Reading and writing are commonly considered stable, easily defined (and measured) “skills” that are transportable to any occasion. By contrast, research on the uses of reading and writing demonstrate that literacy is best viewed as a range of diverse, contestable, evolving, situated practices.
This conference will throw out a wide net to explore literacy as it is learned in both inside and outside of schools, and as it is used for multiple purposes. It will also explore the various claims made about “literacy” – for example, the widespread belief that literacy is essential for analytic thought, self advancement, job success, and the economic vitality of the nation.
A distinguished group of keynote speakers will address these issues with us. In addition several strands of concurrent sessions will provide rich opportunities for demonstrations and discussions. The conference is designed for secondary and college teaching levels. We hope you can be there.