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Upcoming Talks, Seminars, and Special Events

Friday, November 6, 2009 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.; Denney 311
History of the Book: Stephen Hall (History): "African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth Century America."

Friday, November 20, 2009 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. BARRISTERS CLUB
Informing Ohio Communities: A Symposium on the Report of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, organized by LiteracyStudies@OSU with additional support from the Moritz College of Law. To register, write literacystudies@osu.edu.

Friday, December 4, 2009 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies: DIGITAL LITERACIES

Winter Quarter
Tuesday, January 19, 2009 4:00 - 5:30 pm Thompson Library 150A & B
LiteracyStudies@OSU Winter Program: "Reading and Writing Spaces for Creating and Organizing Knowledge," organized and moderated by Anne Fields, Associate Professor, University Libraries.

Thursday, January 28, 2010 4:00 - 5:30 pm ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
The Ohio State University Lecture on Literacy Studies: Wendy Griswold (Northwestern University): "The Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project, the American Guides, and What the Readers Made of Them."

Friday, January 29, 2010 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. THOMPSON LIBRARY 150A & B
LiteracyStudies@OSU Winter Program: "Reading and Writing Spaces for Creating and Organizing Knowledge," organized and moderated by Anne Fields, Associate Professor, University Libraries.

Friday, February 12, 2010
Youth and Social Media: A Symposium sponsored by I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Moritz College of Law, The Justice for Children Project, The Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies, and LiteracyStudies@OSU.

Thursday, February 25, 2010
Invited Speaker: Megan Sweeney, "Prison Reading."
Co-sponsored with Women's Studies. For more information, contact Rebecca Wanzo at wanzo.1@osu.edu.

Friday, February 26, 2010 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies: Women's Literacies

Spring Quarter
Friday, April 30, 2010 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies: Indigenous Literacies

Thursday, May 6, 2010 4:00 - 5:30 pm ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
LiteracyStudies@OSU Spring Lecture: Teresa McCarty (Arizona State University): Language Pedagogy and Politics in Indigenous America - Miner's Canary or Mariner's Tern?

Friday, May 28, 2010 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ICRPH Knight House, 104 E. 15th Av
Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies

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Informing Ohio Communities:20 November 2009

Informing Ohio Communities is a symposium on the Informing Communities, Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age, the report of the Knight Commission on the information needs of communities in a democracy. The Knight Commission is a project of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The symposium is an initiative of LiteracyStudies@OSU, with additional support from the Moritz College of Law. Peter Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, is the Knight Commission's Executive Director and a member of the LiteracyStudies@OSU executive group. The Report was released October 2, 2009.

The Knight Commission sees new thinking about news and information as a necessary step to sustaining democracy in the digital age. It thus follows in the footsteps of the 1940s Hutchins Commission and the Kerner and Carnegie Commissions of the 1960s.

But in the digital age, the stakes are even higher. Technological, economic and behavioral changes are dramatically altering how Americans communicate. Communications systems no longer run along the lines of local communities, and the gap in access to digital tools and skills is wide and troubling.

The Commission seeks to start a national discussion - leading to real action. Its aims are to maximize the availability and flow of credible local information; to enhance access and capacity to use the new tools of knowledge and exchange; and to encourage people to engage with information and each other within their geographic communities. The goal of the symposium is to foster the process in central Ohio in a critical yet constructive way.

The symposium is Friday, November 20, 2009 at the Barristers Club at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Admission is free and is open to the public, but advance registration is required. Email literacystudies@osu.edu.

The day-long program is organized around the Commission's three goals and fifteen strategies into sessions of state and local luminaries and distinguished scholars:

Program:

For more information about Informing Ohio Communities, contact Susan Hanson at hanson.94@osu.edu.

GIS in Literacy Studies: Winter 2010 Course Offerings

The goals and opportunities of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies include

• understanding literacy in its specific historical, social, cultural, political, and economic contexts
• recognizing that the origins of literacy lie in language and the uses of language vary from context to context
• exploring literacy’s place in cognition and communication, and in relation to other modes of communicative competence
• studying acquisition, uses, practices, and consequences of literacy and literacies across age, gender, race, class, ethnicity, geography, and media
• investigating the uses, abuses, complexity, and contradictions of literacy as a social practice
• developing critical approaches to common assumptions about the importance, power, and centrality of literacy
• distinguishing and evaluating the literacies of academic disciplines for their commonalities and differences
• critiquing and redeveloping communication and understanding across different literacies, and
• recognizing that literacy cannot be reduced to one definition, nor to one effect on people or societies.

For more information about the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Literacy Studies, visit http://literacystudies.osu.edu/academics/gis.cfm and contact Harvey Graff (graff40@humanities.osu.edu) or Mollie Blackburn (blackburn.90@osu.edu).

Winter 2010 Core Course Offerings

English 884 Literacy Studies: Past and Present; cross-listed as History 775 History of Literacy; Harvey Graff: T/Th 1:30-3:18
From the invention of alphabets to the electronic age: literacy's relationships with social, cultural, political, and economic changes; impacts and significance for individuals and collectives.

EDU T&L 901 Changing Perspectives; Elaine Richardson: W 4:30-6:48
Introductory seminar highlights interdisciplinary nature of studies in language, literacy, and culture and provides historical perspective for theoretical shifts that influence research and teaching.

Winter 2010 Elective Course Offerings
LINGUIST 661.01 Kathryn Campbell Kibler; T/Th 11:30-1:18
EDU T&L 665 Applied Linguistics for Teachers; Elaine Richardson: M 4:30-6:48
PHILOS 673 Advanced Philosophy of Language; Benjamin Caplan: M/W 12:30-2:18
PSYCH 845 Cognitive Development; John Opfer: W 4:00-6:18
EDU P&L 880 Educational Psychology; Bruce Tuckman: Th 4:00-7:18
NELC 648 Studies in Orality and Literacy; Margaret Mills: M/W 2:30-4:18
EDU T&L 921 Guided Survey of Research in Reading; Ian Wilkinson: M 7:00-7:48
EDU T&L 925.56 Reading and Literacy Childhood; multiple offerings
ENGLISH 889 Seminar on Digital Media Studies; Lewis Ulman: T/Th 3:30-5:18
EDU T&L 803 Language and Society; Elaine Richardson: Th 7:00-9:18
ANTHROP 630 Language and Culture in Education; Lexine Trask: M/W 4:30-6:18
GERMAN 530 German Language Past and Present; Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm: T/Th 1:30-3:18
GERMAN 806 History of German Language; Anna Grotans: W 3:30-6:18
JAPANESE 515 Japanese Language; Etsuyo Yuasa M/W 1:30-3:18
PORTUGUESE 611 The Portuguese Language; Wayne Redenbarger: M/W 1:30-3:18
EDU T&L 876 Science, Math, Technology and the Educated Mind; David Haury: T 4:30-6:488
EDU T&L 925.27 Science Education; Russ Nehm: W 4:30-6:48

The Ohio State University Lecture in Literacy Studies: Wendy Griswold

The Ohio State University Lecture on Literacy Studies established OSU as the place for both well-established and younger scholars to preview major studies and present significant new works. This year's lecture will be presented by Wendy Griswold, Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. She will speak about "The Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project, the American Guides, and What the Readers Made of Them."



Griswold's research and teaching interests include cultural sociology; sociological approaches to literature, art and religion; regionalism, urban representations, and the culture of place; the Federal Writers' Project; and comparative studies of reading practices. Her recent books include Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria (Princeton UP, 2000), Cultures and Societies in a Changing World 3rd ed. (Pine Forge 2008), and Regionalism and the Reading Class (University of Chicago Press, 2008). She directs the Culture and Society Workshop at the Alice Berline Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

The Ohio State University Lecture on Literacy Studies series is supported with funding from the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, matched by the College of Dentistry, the College of Art, the College of Biological Sciences, the University Libraries, and the Department of Entomology.

The third annual Lecture in Literacy Studies is Thursday, January 28, 2010, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm at the Knight House, 104 E. 15th Avenue.

Locating LiteracyStudies@OSU

George Wells Knight House
104 E. 15th Ave
Columbus, OH 43201
PH: 614-247-6539
FAX: 614-247-6336
literacystudies@osu.edu

LiteracyStudies@OSU: An Initiative

LiteracyStudies@OSU is fostering a critical, cross-campus conversation and investigation into the nature of literacy, bringing historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and modes of understanding together to stimulate new institutional and intellectual relationships. We are building a sense of collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their constituents, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities, education, medicine, and law.

2009-2010 EXECUTIVE GROUP
Stephen Acker, Ohio Board of Regents
Edward Adelson, Music
Ginny Bumgardner, Medicine; Surgery; Research Education
Philip Binkley, Medicine; Public Health
Mollie Blackburn, Education; Teaching & Learning
Brenda Brueggemann, English; Composition, Rhetoric and Literacy
Sandy Cornett, Health Sciences; Allied Medicine
Marcia Farr, Education: Teaching & Learning; English
Anne Fields, University Libraries
Henry Fields, Dentistry
Susan Fisher, Biology; Entomology
Carolina Gill, Industrial, Interior, & Visual Communication Design
Harvey J. Graff, English and History
Terry Gustafson, Chemistry
Kay Bea Jones, Architecture
Alan Kalish, Teaching & Learning Center
Daniel Keller, OSU Newark, English
Jeffrey K. McKee, Anthropology
Beverly Moss, English; Composition, Rhetoric and Literacy
Leslie Moore, Education: Teaching & Learning
Cassandra Parente, OSU Marion, English
Doug Post, Medicine
Cindy Selfe, English; Digital Media
Peter Shane, Law
Randy Smith, Vice Provost for Academic Programs
Amy Shuman, English; Folklore
Kathryn Sullivan, Battelle Center for Mathematics & Science Education Policy
David Staley, History
Kevin Tavin, Art Education
Andrew Thomas, Medicine; General Internal Medicine
Lewis Ulman, English; Digital Media
Mindy Wright, Community Partnerships in ASC
Chris Zacher, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities