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We were fortunate to have Dr. Sue Wells of Temple University as our Keynote speaker today. Her talk, “Composing Our Bodies,” was both enlightening and entertaining.
As Dr. Wells took us through the history of the foundational feminist text, Our Bodies, Ourselves, the audience learned the power of the average person to enact real and lasting change–in this case, in the medial industry–with education, motivation, and writing.
Dr. Wells urged us to look for opportunities–to create opportunities–to bring together this discourse of the common person and the expert, to write our own Our Bodies, in whatever media we have.
Please check out Dr. Wells’s new book, Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writing, at Amazon!
Tim Crane here. We just figured out the Canon FS21. We’ve now got a means to upload photos from panels. Videos are still in the works. Here are some excerpts from sign-in and Session 2, Panel B: “Breaking the Rules: Writing Experiments.”
We’ve also set up a Wall where people can post their comments in 160 characters or less. Check out our WallWisher!
P.S. Katrina says “Hi.”
Session 3′s going on right now and we’re running all over the place here at the “multimedia base camp.” Woot.
Amy L-B here!
I just chaired session 2, panel B, “Breaking theRules; Writing Experiments.”
John Jablonski, TJ Twedle, and Jess Petresky impressed a lively audience in MSU 324. They told impassioned, even brave stories. The theme seemed to be emotion: they all agreed (as did their audience) that when genuine emotion fuels writing (even assigned writing), it’s just….better!
In one case the driving emotion was anger; in another, frustration; in the last, love (love for a place).
Thanks to all the writers and audience who made this session rock!
Come listen, learn, and join the discussion!
It’s only 10:00 and we’ve had more than 75 people at the conference already! Come on over to the student union and listen to fellow students present their work and join in the discussion. Register in 312 and grab a coffee and a snack, then decide which engaging panel you want to attend…
Moe
Session 1, 8:30-9:45am
Panel A Teaching Writing Room 322
Tim Crane, “Let There Be Rights”
Katrina Albert, “Literacy Mosaic”
Panel B Composing Our Health Room 323
Christa Bardar, “Breast Cancer”
Kataryna Evanowicz, “Solving the Puzzle of Autism”
Panel C What I Am Is What I Am: Identity Analysis Room 324
Christopher Savo, “My Own Unique Identity”
Caitlin Fitzpatrick, “The Definition of Me”
Megan Heerwagen, “Seventeen and German”
Kaitlin Hasher, “Identify Me”
Panel D Literacy Narratives Room 325
Kim Penn, “To the Teachers I’ve Loved & Hated: Here’s a Song for You”
Emmalee Lesko, “Vedi, Vidi, Vici”
Dana Feiss, “My Life in Pages”
Session 2, 10:00am to 11:15am
Panel A Media Images: From Disney to Dresses Room 322
Sara Angert, “The Disney Princess Poser”
Melissa Baj, “I Double-Dog-Dare Ya to Watch TV With Me”
Devin Nicole Keel, “Advertising: Its Influence on Women’s Body Image”
Jaclyn Witko, “The Perfect Model”
Panel Breaking the Rules: Writing Experiments Room 323
John Jablonski, “Please Refrain from Using Chicken Scratch”
TJ Tweddle, “Emosh1”
Jessica Petresky, “Sanctuary”
Panel C Music, Film and Identity Formal Dining Room,
Room 223
Ahmad Awadallah, “Under Raps: The Rap Music Industry”
Frank Marsters, “Fight Club: Knuckles Covered in Love”
Joshua Dietz, “Christopher McCandless: The Magic of Death”
Session 3: 11:30am to 12:45pm
Panel A Adventures in Composition & Literacy Room 322
Melissa Jacobson, “Gaia Online: Role-play and Literacy”
Sarah Minassian, “Composition; A Love Story”
Amanda Reed, “Dearest Dreadful Five Paragraph Essay Format”
Blair Boyer, “We Are Chameleons”
Panel B Composing a Different Idea of Reading (The City)
Room 323
Kristyn Culley, “Best Scenic Spots Near Reading”
Lindsay Derecola, “Close to Nature in Pennsylvania”
Panel C Diversity: Awareness of the Differences in Your Classroom Formal Dining Room, Room 223
Brianna Pritchard, “What Really Matters: Teaching Writing in the ESL Classroom”
Andrew Gruver, “Male Authority in the Classroom: What Will They Think?”
Paul Walsh, “ Let’s Not Talk About Sex: Seeing Beyond Gender in Student Writing”
Session 4: 2:15 to 3:30
Panel A Teachers and Students Room 322
Christina Steffy, “Applying Hillocks: A Pedagogical Analysis”
Maya Kowalcyk, “Analysis of a Teaching Episode: Constructing Knowledge in a Community-Centered Classroom
Ameerah Swift, “Education: The Great Equalizer”
Swee Sun Leow, “Cultural Perceptions of INternational Students in the American University”
Panel B Mapping My Literary Aesthetic Room 323
Jeremy Bailey, “The Fingerprints of Literacy”
Ryan Bucks, “Reading, Writing, and Ryan”
Kellyn Legath, “Searching for Answers”
Panel C Literacy Narratives Room 324
Bryan Kleiner, “Panic Attacks and Writing”
Kulsum Soonasra, “Gujarati to English: The Transformation”
Richard Rodriguez, “Video Games as Literacy Devices”
Kevin White, “Revisions and Decisions: THe Last Thing We Should Ever Do”
Panel D Narrative Self-Fashioning Room 325
Samantha Delp, “Tested by Fire”
Matthew Harwick, “ Four-Mile Feelings”
Allison Gray, “Mean Girl of Red Lion High School”
Jake Quail, “Lifeguarding”
Panel E Through the Lens of Genre Theory Formal Dining Room, Room 223
Anne Imschweiler, “The Evolution of the Art of Nature: Applying Genre Theory to ‘Once More to the Lake’ & ‘Total Eclipse’”
Eric Fritz, “The Rhetoric of Hope: Using Activist Rhetoric within a Genre of Commodified Text to Mediate the Relationship of the Black Panthers to the Obama Campaign”
Nick Roman, “Rhetoric of the Dead: Levels of Authorship in the Posthumous Publications Genre”
Session 5: 3:45pm to 5:00pm
Panel A Digital Tour of the Town Room 322
Eric Stauffer, “Virtual UK Pub Crawl”
Ariel Rodriguez, “The Best of Philly Cheese Steaks”
Jordana Nicholls, “A Local’s Take on the Poconos”
Panel B Commercials, Causes and Cognition Room 323
Andrew Bashore, “A Cognitive Analysis of ‘Silent Victims’”
Kelsey McNamee, “True Beauty”
Chris Erthal, “Analysis of the Child Fund Organization”
Panel C Persuasion and Influence Room 324
Alicia Snook “Sex Sells: Women’s Portrayal in Magazines & the Effect on Teen Girls”
Anna Mouchef, “Overlooked Influences”
Jay (Matthew) Fulton, “You Be the Judege”
Panel D Writing Memoir, Writing Ourselves Room 325
Alyssa Albanese, “A Family’s LEgacy in Jewelry and Furniture”
James Hook, “Memories of My Family”
Lillian Finsel, “The Pants”
The Sixth Annual KU Composition Conference
will be held on Thursday, April 8, 2010!
“Composing Ourselves”
Join us in McFarland Student Union from 8:00am to 5:15pm. Sixty-four KU student-writers will share their original work. All manner of styles, genres and topics will be entertained.
This year, we’ve added a Multimedia Base Camp! Come write on the Graffiti Wall, blog, vlog, or write a poem.
Welcome and Registration is in MSU 312. See you there!
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