LiteracyStudies@OSU Presents

Language(s) and Literacy/ies

Thursday, April 17, 2008
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
George Wells Knight House 104 East 15th Avenue (614) 247- 6539

The term "literacy" has been used metaphorically in recent years to refer to realms beyond written language: "visual literacy," "health literacy," "scientific literacy," and so on. While there are some obvious reasons for this trend, it makes literacy sound like a single, uniform ability. The aim of this program is to raise awareness of the differences in histories of literacy in particular speech communities.

Jim Unger, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Why Literacy is a Poor Metaphor for Expertise

Fritz Graf, Greek and Latin
Speaking Stones: Inscriptions and Literacy in the Ancient World

Leslie Moore, Teaching and Learning
Competing Literacies: Qur'anic Arabic and Classroom French in Northern Cameroon

Elaine Richardson, Teaching and Learning
Hiphop Literacies

Organized and moderated by Marcia Farr, Teaching and Learning.

Space is limited: RSVP to literacystudies@osu.edu