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Join us on Tuesday, May 14th for Speaker Series: Stavroula Kontovourki

Texts, stuff, and bodies: (Agentive) potentials in the renaming of literacy

Kontovourki

Literacy studies are continually in motion, as this is documented in reviews of paradigmatic shifts and turns in the field. As part of these shifts, researchers have re-
theorized and often renamed literacy to complicate simple views of literate doing,
acting, and becoming. In this talk, I focus on re-theorizations that have proliferated
over the past five years and opened up spaces to think of literacies as im/material,
embodied, trans-, posthuman, and affective. Doing so, I consider the very act of
renaming as a temporal emergence and invite the audience in a discussion of its
(agentive) potentials not only for reframing literacy research, but also for re-
imagining literacy learning in bounded spaces like schools.

 

And join us for a workshop (co-sponsored by Media and Social Change Lab) with Dr. Kontovourki on Wednesday, May 15th, 1:00 – 2:30p in 46A HM.

Researching and representing literacies as embodied

This data analysis workshop draws on the theoretical construct of embodiment that
emerged across disciplines and epistemological domains to destabilize sedimented
understandings of selves, pedagogies, and schooling. Drawing on collaborative work
on literacies, learning, and the body (Enriquez, Johnson, Kontovourki, & Mallozzi,
2016), I offer suggestions on how literacy teaching and learning may be theorized as
an entanglement of texts, discourses, and bodies that is disciplined and disciplining,
emotive and affective, re-presentative, and potentially impossible to fully capture.
To engage with such idea, the audience will be invited to consider issues of
researching and representing bodies – of humans, of knowledge, of stuff and matter
– by intra-acting with excerpts of ethnographic and interview data that involve
teachers and students in elementary literacy classrooms.

Dr. Kontovourki is the co-editor of Literacies, Learning, and the Body: Putting Theory and Research into Pedagogical Practice

Brownbag Conversation with Prof. Detra Price-Dennis
CMLLMasclabDetraPriceDennisBrownbagThe Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies invites you to participate in our upcoming Brownbag Conversation with Prof. Detra Price-Dennis, from the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College. 
 

Date: April 20, 2016
Time: 12:30 – 2:00p
Room: 46A Horace Mann
Light refreshments will be served

The CMLL Brownbag series provides CMLL-affiliated faculty and students with an opportunity to share data and aspects of their projects in an informal context with a community of colleagues engaged in research and related work about languages and literacies.

You can learn more about Prof. Price-Dennis here.

If you would like to participate in the Brownbag Series, please be in touch with us at CMLLatTC@gmail.com

Scenes from Kate Pahl’s visit to CMLL

A few tweets from Kate Pahl’s visit to Teachers College and the Center last week, chock full of links and other little tidbits of goodness to ponder!

Happening this weekend: ILA’s “Linguistics and Education” Conference at Teachers College

CMLL is thrilled to help sponsor ILA’s Annual Conference. This year’s theme, “Linguistics and Education,” is a perfect match for current ILA president Jo Anne Kleifgen, who is also one of the founders of CMLL. See below for more information about this year’s conference.

From the ILA website:

60th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association
Theme: Linguistics and Education – Honoring Franklin E. Horowitz

Teachers College, Columbia University, April 24-26, 2015

On the occasion of the 60th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, we pay special tribute to Franklin Horowitz, who has been an active and dedicated member of the ILA from its earliest years, serving both as an ongoing member of the Executive Board and as ILA’s president from 1999 to 2002. A professor of linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University for over 35 years, Frank’s enthusiasm for language inspired legions of students, who continue the work of teaching linguistics to their own students around the world. His influence has been enormous, both as a leader of the ILA and as a teacher. Thus, this year’s theme reflects the mark he has left on those who have worked with and learned from him.

Plenary Speakers

  • Ellen Bialystok, York University
  • William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
  • Raymond McDermott, Stanford University
  • Jacob Mey, University of Southern Denmark

Invited Panels

WORD Global Roundtable. On the occasion of the re-launch of WORD, journal of the ILA, Teachers College, Columbia University and Beijing Normal University will host a simulcast roundtable co-chaired by WORD‘s managing editor Jonathan J. Webster and ILA’s president, Jo Anne Kleifgen. Our panelists will be Sheila Embleton, Michael Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, William Labov, and Jacob Mey.

Rethinking the Relationship between Linguistics and Education. Betsy Rymes, Andrea Leone, Mark Lewis andNelson Flores of the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate school of Education, will explore themes in language research in education.

Workshops for Teachers

The Writers’ Sentence: From Casual to Formal Writing. Alice Deakins of William Paterson University and colleagues will present four increasingly complex levels of the English sentence, including both grammatical conventions and stylistic power. At each level, the structure of the sentence will be discussed followed by practice in a game format.

Having Fun with Words. Kate Parry of Hunter College, CUNY and colleagues will focus on the problem of learning infrequently encountered vocabulary. Participants will engage in games or exercises requiring interactive discussion about the selected words. Materials that teachers can use with their students will be provided.

Click here for more complete information, including details about registration and lodging.

Professor Arshad Ali: “Citizens Under Suspicion: Responsive Research with Community Under Surveillance”

What are the challenges that researchers face when developing responsive research working with marginalized communities? On March 5th, Professor Arshad Ali visited Teachers College as part of the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies Speaker Series, to discuss his research project working with muslim youth and how they make sense of surveillance in multiple spaces in their lives. His qualitative approach to understand these processes aimed to engage with a community following the traditions of a participatory research methodology.IMG_2619

Professor Ali offered a detailed analysis of the ways in which the threat of surveillance permeates multiple spaces for young people, and how it impacts their own sense of identity and citizenship. He also questioned the long-term implications of these threats, particularly within educational contexts, for muslim youth.

Throughout his presentation, Professor Ali posited the importance of developing research methodologies that can be beneficial for marginalized communities and that can challenge hegemonic understandings of these communities within academic institutions.

The CMLL team appreciates the participation of the attendees, and Professor Arshad Ali, who generously shared his academic inquiries with us.