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The OSU Literacy Studies Working Group of
The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
Winter 2006 Newsletter
Little more than a year ago the
Literacy Studies Working Group and
Literacy Studies @ OSU formed. We began meeting and organizing activities in an effort to initiate a campus-wide conversation, or set of conversations, about literacy. During 2006, we seek to broaden the range of critical approaches to literacy and literacies, and intensify the levels of interest and participation through a variety of presentations and events, a roster of smaller discussion and reading groups organized along topical lines, more visits by Ohio-based scholars, and the campus-wide interdisciplinary graduate student seminar.
Harvey J. Graff
January 2006
Mark your calendar now for these Winter Quarter 2006 events:
Thursday, January 12th Literacies and Social Action
4:00-5:30 p.m. at George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue
Organized and moderated by
Mollie Blackburn, and featuring
David Bloome (Language, Literacy & Culture), "Literacy as Social Action: Race and Language in a Seventh Grade Language Arts Poetry Lesson"
Brenda Brueggemann (English), "Enabling Literacy: Disability Rights and Writes"
Caroline Clark (Language, Literacy & Culture) "Literacy and Identity Beyond the Classroom: High School Students Engaged in Community-Based Inquiry"
Amy Zaharlick (Anthropology), "Literacy Development in an American Indian Education Program: Difficulties and Constraints"
Please let us know if you plan to attend at
lantz.38@osu.edu or 688-0265.
11:30-1:30 p.m. at George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue
A light lunch will be served. Please let us know at
lantz.38@osu.edu if you will attend.
Michael Frisch teaches at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of
Town into City (Harvard University Press, 1972),
A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History (SUNY Press, 1990) and, with photographer Milton Rogovin,
Portraits in Steel (Cornell University Press, 1993). Frisch has been refining new digital tools that offer direct access to the audio and video content of oral history collections, avoiding the mediation through prior text transcription that is usually requisite for collection access.
At this presentation Frisch will discuss literacy as applied to orality and visuality to emphasize and demonstrate how different it is to work directly with the documentation in its oral/visual form, and what a different push this gives to imagining its uses, along a spectrum from research to education to application. His current work is being conducted through The Randforce Associates (
http://www.randforce.com) in the University at Buffalo Technology Incubator.
Other Winter Quarter events will be announced soon. Watch for announcements about
Performance Literacies, Literacy and Language, and Literacy and Writing.
A History of the Book Reading Group began to meet last quarter.
For information and to indicate your interest,
contact Cynthia Brokaw, Department of History
brokaw.22@osu.edu
Specifically for Graduate Students:
Bagels, Coffee, and Conversation with
MICHAEL FRISCH
Friday, January 13, 2006
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Denney Hall, Room 311
164 West 17th Avenue
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Monthly Seminar with Lunch
Friday, January 27 11:30 – 1:00
George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue
Also, Friday, February 24 11:30 – 1:00
George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue
Details forthcoming.
For more information, contact Kelly Bradbury
bradbury.18@osu.edu
A Preview of Spring 2006:
Thursday, April 13 Literacy, Families, Orphanages, Apprenticeship with
John Murray, Department of Economics, University of Toledo. An Ohio-based Literacy Researchers lecture series event
Wednesday, May 10 One Nation Divisible with
Michael B. Katz, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania (co-sponsored by the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, Department of History, and Department of Sociology)
Thursday and Friday, May 11-12 Shirley Brice Heath, Professor at Large, Brown University, Departments of Education and Anthropology, Watson Institute for International Studies and Professor Emerita, Stanford University.
