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For more information, contact group moderator Alan Farmer.

(History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) on "Acquiring Literacy, Acquiring Freedom: Education Among Enslaved and Freedpeople in the American South."

To recognize achievements, showcase accomplishments, and launch the conference Web site.

with presentations by Fritz Graf (Greek and Latin), Jim Unger (East Asian Languages and Literatures), Leslie Moore (Education and Human Ecology), and Elaine Richardson (Education and Human Ecology). Organized and moderated by Marcia Farr (Education).

with presentations by Harvey J. Graff, Kelly Bradbury, Michael Harker, and Kate White.

Inaugural Ohio State University Seminar on Literacy Studies featuring John Duffy (University of Notre Dame), on Hmong Literacy in Asia and America.

This panel will explore what it means to be scientifically literate. Is scientific literacy simply a matter of being conversant with the scientific method? Is it based on knowledge of scientific content? Does the idea of scientific literacy vary with disciplines, and how does scientific literacy align with other forms of literacy? If having a scientifically literate citizenry is important to democracy, how can do a more effective job of teaching science at all levels?

The Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar is an initiative of LiteracyStudies@OSU. Graduate students interested in literacy, no matter how broadly defined, are encouraged to attend. The group includes students from more than twenty disciplinary areas, at every stage of study. The goal is to extend the conversation campus-wide.

A panel of OSU-based journal editors will discuss publishing opportunities in Literacy Studies. Participating journals include American Periodicals, Computers and Composition, Narrative, Reading Research Quarterly, and Language Arts. For more information, contact Kate White at white.1142@osu.edu.

Women and Literacy: Cultural historian Barbara Sicherman (Trinity College, Hartford) will present "Varieties of Reading Experience: Women and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America." For more information, contact Susan Hanson at hanson.94@osu.edu.

For more information, contact Susan Hanson at hanson.94@osu.edu.