CFP: Expanding Literacy Studies

[Francis Hult]

http://literacystudies.osu.edu/initiatives/conference/yr2008/intconference/calls.cfm

 

Expanding Literacy Studies

 

An International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students

 

3-5 Aprill 2009

 

The Ohio State University

 

Expanding Literacy Studies, the first international, interdisciplinary conference on literacy studies organized and hosted by graduate students, will be held at The Ohio State University on April 3-5, 2009. 

Please join faculty and students from Ohio State and nine other major universities for this international, interdisciplinary conference for graduate students. The theme-Expanding Literacy Studies-draws from the larger conversation on literacy and literacy studies, the many myths of literacy, and the growing number of new and emergent literacies. 

The conference aims to extend the dialogue, explore the landscape, and map the intersections of literacy studies as a framework for our continued critical investigation of literacy. This approach is meant to expand the field and critique the expansion.

 

Call for Proposals

Literacy Studies is a recent construct. At the same time, it addresses long-standing questions and concerns within and across disciplines. But what is literacy? Who is studying it? And how is it being studied? Literacy is traditionally defined as reading and writing. Contemporary constructs, however, include everything from cyber and health literacy to mathematical and visual literacy. The potential advance this broadened view might represent is complicated by historical myths about literacy, persistent fears about declines in literacy, and failure to connect literacy research across disciplines. Addressing the need for an expanded conversation about literacy that exceeds disciplinary boundaries, this conference is a space for graduate and professional students from all fields to ask questions, consider directions, examine representations, make connections, and share investigations of literacy, broadly defined. This conference aims to expand the dialogue and explore the land!
 scape and intersections of literacy studies as a framework of critical investigation. This approach is meant to do the double work of expanding the field while critiquing the expansion. To that end, we invite proposals from graduate and professional students in ALL fields.

 

Deadline: 

We will begin reviewing conference proposals September 1, 2008. Proposals will not be accepted after October 15, 2008. 

This conference is sponsored by Literacy Studies @ The Ohio State University.

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