Conference on Community Writing

Posted by Uni­ver­sity of Col­orado Boul­der on August 17, 2015

REGISTER FOR CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY WRITING
October 15 – 17, 2015

The Pro­gram for Writ­ing and Rhetoric at Uni­ver­sity of Col­orado Boul­der is proud to host the first Con­fer­ence on Com­mu­nity Writ­ing —a forum for schol­ars, teach­ers, pro­gram admin­is­tra­tors, and com­mu­nity mem­bers to share schol­ar­ship and exam­ine the the­o­ries, tech­nolo­gies, and best prac­tices shap­ing Rhetoric and Com­po­si­tion, related dis­ci­plines, and the com­mu­ni­ties that house our insti­tu­tions. We call together inno­va­tors and schol­ars who push a range of social bound­aries in their use and study of rhetoric and writ­ing (broadly con­ceived) in com­mu­nity set­tings, and teach­ers who encour­age stu­dents to approach the act of com­pos­ing as par­tic­i­pa­tory mem­bers of publics beyond the classroom.

For com­mu­nity mem­bers who work out­side of the uni­ver­sity, the con­fer­ence is an invi­ta­tion to share exper­tise and expe­ri­ences with writ­ing and dis­course as a means toward social change. The con­fer­ence will bring together aca­d­e­mics and com­mu­nity mem­bers to explore the rela­tion­ships between com­mu­ni­ca­tion, writ­ing, and action as atten­dees work together to build sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ties, engaged depart­ments, and pro­fes­sional iden­ti­ties that sup­port engaged work.

Our charge to build com­mu­nity prompts us to envi­sion new for­mats for knowledge-sharing. Atten­dees will have the chance to inter­act with nationally-known schol­ars in the field in Deep­Think Tanks and work­shops, orga­nized to priv­i­lege and sup­port col­lab­o­ra­tion between teach­ers, schol­ars, grad­u­ate stu­dents, and com­mu­nity members.

Please check out the exciting program of over 300 speakers here:

http://www.communitywriting.org/program/