- Find the locations of labs & classrooms
- Get contact and office hours information for the administrative personnel
- Learn about our mission & history
- Use the bibliography for research
- Read the director's annual reports
A Roundtable on Critical Pedagogy
The Pedagogy Project recently ran a roundtable on critical pedagogy using the First Year Forum book, The Blind Side, which is currently being taught in all Rhetoric 306 classes. Discussion leaders included Amena Moinfar, Dr. Jennifer Wilks, Jasmine Mulliken, Charlotte Nunes, and Michelle Jerney-Davis, who offered some ways instructors can use personal experience, multi-media resources, and a pedagogical article by bell hooks to broach controversial issues of race and gender in the classroom.
At the start of the spring semester, the workshop will continue with a tutorial/overview by Sean McCarthy and Amena Moinfar on how to use GoogleMaps as a web-based writing activity that will help students to engage critically with race, class and gender in a global perspective. Sean and Amena will show the basics of making an interactive map, and how to use GoogleMaps as a presentation tool, a short class-based assignment in a networked classroom, and also as part of a longer writing project. Stay tuned for details about this exciting event!
Call for Chapter Proposals: Collaborative Writing in Virtual Workplaces
Collaborative Writing in Virtual Workplaces: Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies and Tools
A book edited by Dr. Beth L. Hewett and Dr. Charlotte A. Robidoux
University Maryland, UC
Hewlett-Packard Company
Deadline for submission: November 30, 2008
Introduction
Collaborative writing, a process that has often occurred both asynchronously by sharing a document, as well as synchronously in face-to-face or telephone settings, increasingly occurs in virtual settings. When authors write virtually, their processes are distributed across geographic locations, but also within the co-located space of an office or institutional setting. Unlike traditional document sharing and face-to-face or telephone interactions, virtual writing requires participants to communicate using computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies, which include everything from instant messaging and email to interactions that take place via web pages and webcasts and through the use of graphical user interfaces. This book will investigate the use of CMC technology to facilitate effective interdependent collaboration in writing projects, especially in virtual workplace settings.
Transformative Works and Cultures: Special Issue
Special Issue: Games as Transformative Works
Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol. 2 (Spring 2009)
Guest Editor: Rebecca Carlson
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2008
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) invites essays on gaming and gaming culture as transformative work. We are interested in game studies in all its theoretical and practical breadth, but even more so in the way fan culture shapes itself around and through gaming interfaces. Potential topics include but are not limited to game audiences as fan cultures; anthropological approaches to game design and game engagement; on- and off-line game experiences; textual and cultural analysis of games; fan appropriations and manipulations of games; and intersections between games and other fan artifacts.
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations: Digital Humanities 2009
June 22–25, 2009
University of Maryland
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2008
From the CFP:
The international Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of digital humanities, broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. As always, we welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, particularly interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital humanities, and on recent new developments and expected future developments in the field.
The Tenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
June 18-21, 2009
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, Missouri
Deadline for submission: January 15, 2009
From the CFP:
“Ecology”: a word derived from the Greek words meaning “household knowledge.” For the 2009 MEA convention, we seek papers on any aspect of media ecology. Special interest in the places and spaces of media interactions: Silicon Valley or St. Louis; screen, studio, library, or street. Does place matter? Local systems, larger systems, and changing relationships in the ecology of media. The role(s) of media in different ecological systems. The changing geography of media: Why do some forms emerge and others recede? The ethics of (not) setting boundaries. Living in information systems: Are we the center, the web, the flaneur? What is the I in the culture of iPods, iPhones, and iGames? Because the 2009 MEA Convention will meet at Saint Louis University, where Walter J. Ong was a faculty member, papers on any aspect of his work are especially welcome.
'Knowledge Engineering Review' special issue: Visual Reasoning and Knowledge
Visual Reasoning and Knowledge
Deadline for submission: February 28, 2009
Knowledge Engineering Review (a journal normally dedicated to the development of the field of artificial intelligence), plans a special issue on visual reasoning and knowledge. The topic is to be understood broadly. We welcome papers covering pictures, diagrams, thought experiments, etc. that connect to some form of reasoning (as opposed to mere illustration). And we welcome a broad range of approaches: philosophical, historical, anthropological, psychological, computational, and so on. Papers should be of interest and intelligible to a broad audience, including: working scientists and mathematicians, philosophers and historians of science, anthropologists, sociologists, and cognitive scientists.