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Informing Ohio Communities: 20 November 2009
Informing Ohio Communities is a symposium on the Report of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy,
Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age. The symposium is an initiative of LiteracyStudies@OSU, with additional support from the Moritz College of Law. The Knight Commission is a project of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. 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 in October 2, 2009.
The symposium takes place Friday, November 20, 2009 at the Barristers Club at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. It is open to the public, but advance registration is required to attend. Email
literacystudies@osu.edu.
The symposium is organized around the Commission’s fifteen strategies into roundtable sessions of state and local luminaries and distinguished scholars:
9:00 – 9:30
Opening Remarks
Harvey J. Graff, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies
Professor of English and History; Program Director, Literacy Studies
Peter Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law
Executive Director, Knight Commission
9:30 – 10:45
Maximizing the Availability of Relevant and Credible Information
Moderator: ANNE FIELDS, Associate Professor, University Libraries
CHESTER JOURDAN, Executive Director, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
TOM RIELAND, General Manager, WOSU Public Media
ROBERT FITRAKIS, Professor, Columbus State Community College; Founder, Free Press
RAY MILLER, Minority Whip, Ohio State Senate
MICHAEL MCCLUSKEY, Assistant Professor of Communication
Discussant: STEPHEN ACKER, Research Director for the eTextOhio Project/OhioLINK
11:00 – 12:30
Enhancing the Information Capacity of Individuals
Moderator: BRENDA BRUEGGEMANN, Professor of English; Disability Studies
RICHARD VOITHOFER, Associate Professor of Educational Technology
PATRICK LOSINSKI, Executive Director, Columbus Metropolitan Library
TOM FRITZ, Executive Director, Connect Ohio
GARY CAVIN, Chief Information Officer, City of Columbus
OSEI APPIAH, Associate Professor of Communication
Discussant: H. LEWIS ULMAN, Associate Professor of English; Digital Media Studies
1:30 – 2:45
Promoting Public Engagemen
Moderator: CASSANDRA PARENTE, Assistant Professor of English
MATT MAYER, President, Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions
RICHARD KINSLEY, Executive Director, Ohio Campus Compact
JENNIFER WILLIAMS, Executive Director, Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations
JACK NASAR, Professor of City and Regional Planning
GARN ANDERSON, Vice President, Knight Center of Digital Excellence
Discussant: AMY SHUMAN, Professor of English and Anthropology
3:00 – 4:00
Open Forum
Peter Shane and Harvey Graff, Moderators
For more information, write
literacystudies@osu.edu.
LiteracyStudies@OSU Spring Lecture: Teresa McCarty
Teresa McCarty, Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies and Professor of Applied Linguistics, Arizona State University will give a talk on May 6, 2010 that draws from her work with indigenous Americans: "Language Pedagogy and Politics in Indigenous America - Miner’s Canary or Mariner's Tern?"
An educational anthropologist, McCarty's research and teaching focus on indigenous/language minority education, language education planning and policy, critical literacy studies, and ethnographic methods in education. Her recent books include
Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling (Erlbaum, 2005),
A Place To Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling (Erlbaum, 2002),
One Voice, Many Voices - Recreating Indigenous Language Communities (with O. Zepeda, Center for Indian Education, 2006), and
To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (with K. T. Lomawaima, Teachers College Press, 2006).
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 p.m. at the Knight House, 104 E. 15th Avenue.
