Symposium Program
ReVision and ReForm: Teaching Writing Across Borders
A Virtual Symposium
New York University
October 23-24, 2020
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Pre-register here (registration is free of charge and open to all)
*All times EST.
Friday, October 23
10:00 - 10:05 am Opening Remarks
Jenni Quilter, NYU
10:05 - 11:05 am Keynote Speaker:
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University
Teaching Writing Across Borders: A Tragedy in Four Acts
Moderator: Gita DasBender, New York University
11:05-11:15 Virtual Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 pm Panel 1: Writing at the Heart: A Thought Experiment
Moderator: Marion Wrenn, NYU Abu Dhabi
Speakers:
Gloria Fisk, Queens College, CUNY
Writing Studies at the Heart of the University in Crisis: Toward an Institutional Politics of Mutual Aid
Ken Nielsen, NYU Abu Dhabi
Making the Invisible Visible: Teaching Writing as Domestic Labor
Deborah Lindsay Williams, NYU Abu Dhabi
Can First-Year Comp Save the World?
12:15 - 12:45 pm Virtual Lunch Break / Writing Workshop: Writing About/Around an Object: Combining Perspectives
w/ Blagovesta Momchedjikova, NYU
Moderators: Nicole Callihan, Natalia Andrievskikh
What to bring: An object that is around you (from your immediate environment) but may be from somewhere else (city, country, continent); your curiosity about it; something to write with; and something to write on. We will write for 30 min.
12:45 - 1:45 pm Panel 2: Reframing Writing Education: Helping Students Transcend Borders
Moderator: Jonathan Mischkot, New York University
Speakers:
MaryAnn Duffy, Stony Brook University
Using Postcolonial Lenses for Learning Research and Writing Skills
Shyam Sharma, Stony Brook University
Extending the Framework: Application of Writing Across Borders
Soni Adhikari, Stony Brook University
Collaborating Across Borders
1:45 - 2:00 Virtual Coffee Break
2:00-3:00 Roundtable 1: Infinite Possibilities: Silence in the Writing Classroom
Moderator: Aaron Laduke, Northwestern University, Qatar
Speakers:
Amira Pierce, NYU
Brian Schwarz, NYU
Iris Dunkle, Napa Valley College
Carolina Gomez-Montoya, Portland State University
3:00 - 3:15 Virtual Coffee Break
3:15-4:15pm Panel 3: Translingual Pedagogies
Moderator: Nela Navarro, Rutgers University
Speakers:
Massimo Verzella, Pennsylvania State University Erie, The Behrend College
Adventures in Negotiation: Collaborative Writing and Translation in Virtual Exchange Projects
Joshua Belknap, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Re-Navigating Monolithic/Monolingual Approaches to “Correctness”
Madhav Kafle, Rutgers University
Academic Literary Socialization Across the Curriculum of Academically Underprepared Multilingual Students
4:15 - 4:30 pm Virtual Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 Roundtable 2: Student Voices (please register here)
Moderators: Natasha Zaretsky, Natalia Andrievskikh
Speakers:
Taylah Bland
Carlo Bueno
Alex Chapman
Dariely De La Cruz
Alex Harper
Daeun Lee
Ryan Lee
Julia-Françoise Raith
Daniela Sandoval
Saturday, October 24
10:00-10:05 am Opening Remarks
Dara Regaignon, New York University
10:05-11:05am Panel 4: The Question of the Self in Writing
Moderator: Jonathan Liebson, The New School
Identifying Versus Transcending the Self
Speakers:
Natalie Friedman, Barnard College
Safe Spaces, Campus Discourse, and the Role of Writing
Jacob M. Appel, Mt. Sinai Academy of Medicine
Of Medical Narratives and Patient Consent
Olga Breydo, The New School
Immigrant Voices and Displacement
11:05 - 11:15 am Virtual Coffee Break
11:15-12:15pm Roundtable 3: Social Justice
Moderator: Suzanne Cope, New York University
Speakers:
Amy White, City University of New York, Lehman College
Sophie Bell, St. John’s University
Carleigh Brower, Manhattanville College
12:15 - 12:30 pm Virtual Coffee Break
12:30-1:30pm Panel 5: Play
Moderator: Chris Wall, New York University
Speakers:
Mara Jebsen, New York University
Form(ulaic) yet Poetic: How Poems in First-Year Composition Classes Allow Room for Student Agency
Ryan Sloan, University of California, Berkeley
The Porous Borders of Rigorous Play: Digital Literacies and Multilingual Student Writers
Carlos Burgos, Rutgers University, and Nate Mickelson, New York University
All the Ways to Poetry: Framing Writing as Public Inquiry
1:30 - 2:00 pm Virtual Coffee Break
2:00-3:00 pm Closing Discussion
Moderator: Nicole Callihan, New York University
Speakers:
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University
Jenni Quilter, New York University
Awam Ampka, New York University, Abu Dhabi
Marion Wrenn, New York University, Abu Dhabi