The Literacy Studies Working Group
of
THE INSTITUTE FOR
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HUMANITIES
invites you to its first
organizational meeting
Literacy Studies at
OSU: beyond "crisis;" beyond "many literacies"
A new initiative
Thursday, October 28
3:00 - 4:45 pm
George Wells Knight House
Refreshments will
be served.
OSU Literacy Studies
Working Group
led by Harvey J.
Graff [English & History], Marcia Farr [Education], Beverly
Moss [English & CSTW], Amy Shuman [Folklore & English], Mollie
Blackburn [Education], and Kay Bea Jones [Architecture]
Literacy Studies at OSU: beyond “crisis;” beyond “many literacies”
A new initiative
We live at a challenging time with respect to both literacy and
literacy studies. On the one hand, many different literacies are
proclaimed, from cyber to health and emotional literacy, mathematical to
aesthetic literacy. The potential advance that this profusion might represent,
however, is lost in the confusing clash of claims and counter-claims, and the
persisting sense of doom due to fears of the decline of literacy skills and the
consequent defeat of civilization as we have known it. A sense of crisis and
despair contradictorily accompanies the assertion of many literacies.
Talking clearly, knowledgeably, and critically about literacy is an inescapable
need today.
As we clarify our usage and our reflections about literacy(ies), we not only
hold the potential to improve our communications and abilities to collaborate
but we also have a rare opportunity to reinvigorate teaching and learning. This
working group (in its first year) plans to establish a Literacy Working Group
for its two-year run, from 2004-2006, with an aim of fostering a sense of
collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their constituents (and
their different proclaimed “literacies”), from the social and natural sciences
to the arts and humanities, medicine and law. From a beginning in the
humanities, the Working Group intends to foster a critical, cross-campus
conversation and investigation into the nature of literacy and literacies,
bringing historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and
modes of understanding together to stimulate new relationships institutionally
and intellectually.
Goals to make OSU distinctive
by focusing on institutionalized but also more diffused interests and
activities relating to literacy studies
by fostering and then changing the conversation; changing dissemination;
changing practice and challenging theory, expectations, policies
by cross campus efforts and outreach, by reciprocal concern to advance both
theory and practice
by founding a literacy studies workshop, forum, and lecture/conference
We are looking for faculty who are seriously interested in the definition,
conceptualization, and critique of literacy and literacies; developing
comparative and historical perspectives on literacy; engaging in critiques and
potential reconstructions of their own positions as well as others; beginning
to reconceptualize literacy within a collegial peer environment; who recognize
the 21st century imperative to integrate but also to
go beyond the humanities, education, and social sciences to embrace the arts,
sciences, engineering, technology, law, medicine, and more.
This first year’s activities may include: One or more working discussion
groups. Circulation of position papers. Collective readings. Outlines of
critical questions. Stimulation of discussions, debates about literacy across
and beyond the differentiated curricula; also different perspectives across
disciplines and other lines of differentiation. Probing of positions, including
recognition of historical origins and historical developments, comparisons,
relation to theory and practice, functions played . . . We plan to prepare an
inventory of literacy-related research, teaching, and other interests, and also
host one or more distinguished visitors.
Oct 28 Meeting to get acquainted and air
agendas: program and refreshments
George Wells Knight House 105 E 15th Ave 3:00-4:45 p.m.
Please let us know if you plan to attend 688-0265
The OSU Literacy
Studies Working Group and
“Competencies”
STEVE ACKER, Director, Learning Technologies
Research and Innovation
TELR & School of Journalism and Communication
“Health
Literacy”
SANDY CORNETT,
Director,
AHEC Health Literacy Program
Office of Health Sciences, School of Allied Medical Professions
“Visual
Literacy”
STEPHEN PENTAK,
Associate
Dean,
College of the Arts
“Biology and
Science Literacy”
STEVE RISSING, Director, Introductory
Biology Program
Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology
“Literacy
Outreach”
MINDY WRIGHT, Director, Writing Workshop
Please
let us know if you plan to attend at 688-0265 or lantz.38@osu.edu
Literacy
Studies at OSU: A New Initiative
We are developing a
Literacy Studies Working Group, for 2004-2006, with the aim of fostering a
sense of collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their
constituents, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities,
medicine, and law. The Literacy Studies Working Group intends to foster 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.
Harvey J. Graff , Departments of English & History; Mollie Blackburn, Language, Literacy and Culture, School
of Teaching and Education; Marcia
Farr, Language,
Literacy and Culture, School of Teaching and Education, & English; Kay Bea Jones, School of Architecture; Beverly Moss, Center for the Study and Teaching of
Writing, Department of English; Amy Shuman, Center for Folklore Studies, Department of English
The OSU Literacy
Studies Working Group and
EDITH KANG
STEVEN REISS
BONNIE J. GARVIN
AMY POPE-HARMAN
Please
let us know if you plan to attend at 688-0265 or lantz.38@osu.edu
Literacy
Studies at OSU: A New Initiative
We are developing a
Literacy Studies Working Group, for 2004-2006, with the aim of fostering a
sense of collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their
constituents, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities,
medicine, and law. The Literacy Studies Working Group intends to foster 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.
Harvey J. Graff , English & History; Mollie Blackburn, Language, Literacy and Culture, Education;
Marcia Farr, Language, Literacy and
Culture, Education & English; Kay Bea Jones,
Architecture; Beverly Moss, Center for the Study and
Teaching of Writing & English; Amy Shuman, Folklore &English; Steve Acker, TELR &
Communications/Journalism; Anne Fields,
University Library; Henry Fields,
Dentistry; Susan Fisher, Biology; Alan Kalish, Teaching
& Learning Center; Stephen Pentak, Art; Lewis Ulman,
English & Humanities;
Mindy
Wright, Writing Workshop
The Institute for
Collaborative Research and
Public Humanities,
The Literacy Studies
Working Group, and
The
Invite you to attend a lecture and
reception with
William Morrish
Elwood Quesada
Professor of Architecture,
Landscape
Architecture, and Urban and
Environmental Planning
Friday March
4 5:30 pm
Reception Follows
RSVP: Elizabeth
Lantz (Lantz.38@osu.edu) or 688-0265
William Morrish's lecture "Next
Ground"
inaugurates the ICRPH initiative
"Building Public Space,"
A series of public conversations extending
through 2006
William Morrish
B.Arch.,
M.Arch./U.D.,
"We have deliberately used new language for this book, because we
are trying to help people see familiar things in a different way. This
vocabulary shift is meant to help you express some important ideas about your
neighborhood more vividly and precisely, without resorting to technical
terminology.
"... Language is a form of power, because it reflects a particular
view of the world. New words can give you new power. By having to learn
your neighborhood language, developers and officials will also have to
acknowledge your way of seeing your environment."
William Morrish, Planning To Stay
(1994)
William Morrish is the Elwood R. Quesada Professor of Architecture, Landscape
Architecture and Urban and Environmental Planning, holder of the first
interdisciplinary endowed
professorship at the School of Architecture, University of Virginia. Prior to
this position, he was the founding director of the
In 1994, William Morrish and his late-wife Catherine Brown were hailed by the
New York Times architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp, “as the most valuable
thinkers in urbanism today.” This work is exemplified by their innovative urban
design plan for the City of Phoenix, Arizona: a public art plan that unites
artist and public works engineers in the transformation of city utilities into
a citywide cultural setting and new public realm.
Moorish's work recognizes that infrastructure is a cultural landscape, the
key concept in redefining professional urban design and planning practice. It
serves as a connective tissue that knits citizens, places, social institutions,
and the natural environment into coherent urban relationships. Infrastructure
is the social safety net that underpins individual opportunity and access. It
is shorthand for the structural underpinnings of the public realm.
His design and policy research focuses on the future of American's aging
metropolitan first ring suburban communities and aging working class small home
neighborhoods. Operating under the title of "Green by Addition,".
this research adapts design principles from green building, landscape ecology,
and non profit community organizational work. Moorish seeks to realign planning
rules and production processes through which existing small neighborhoods can
be transformed to meet changing social/economic demographics and sustainability
opportunities.
Rick Livingston, Associate Director, Institute for
Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
Kay Bea Jones,
Harvey J. Graff, Literacy Studies Working Group, Depts. of
English & History
The Institute
for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities and
The Literacy
Studies Working Group invite
you to
Visual Literacy
Across the
Disciplines
Thursday April 7, 2005 3:30 – 5:00
George Wells Knight
House,
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE
SERVED.
Please let us know if you
plan to attend at 688-0265 or lantz.38@osu.edu
This sketch appeared
on page 1 of the New York Times Week in Review, Sunday February 20, 2005. It is an early sketch by Francis Crick
visualizing the double helix of DNA. The "ghost" images of other
ellipses are the evidence of an illustration appearing on the reverse side of
the news page.
The artist Paul Klee said that art does
not copy appearances but “renders the world visible.” This is the challenge to
visual communications across the disciplines. How do we depict the unseen or
the not yet formed? How do we read the
elements of design across disciplines (color, line, shape, texture etc.)? Red
may be employed as a “false color” to
render an area of “brain activity” in a graphic depiction for linguistics, and
it may be used for symbolic emphasis in an advertisement to “activate the
brain” in another context.
Please join us
for an informal discussion on visual literacy across the disciplines with—
Dr. Lilly's research
activities are in the area of very high precision net shape manufacturing
processes, with emphasis on precision injection molding.
Han-Wei Shen, Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Shen’s
research activities include the areas of information visualization and computer
graphics
Prof. Gill’s
research and teaching activities include the areas of foundations design, the design process and visualization.
Moderated
by Terry Barrett,
Literacy Studies at OSU: A New
Initiative
We are developing
a Literacy Studies Working Group, with the aim of fostering a sense of
collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their constituents,
from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities, medicine, and
law. The Literacy Studies Working Group intends to foster 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.
Harvey J. Graff, English & History; Mollie Blackburn, Language, Literacy and Culture,
Education; Marcia Farr, Language, Literacy and
Culture, Education & English; Kay Bea Jones,
Architecture; Beverly Moss, Center for the
Study & Teaching of Writing & English; Amy
Shuman, Folklore &English; Steve Acker,
TELR & Communications/Journalism; Anne Fields,
University Library; Henry Fields, Dentistry; Susan Fisher, Biology; Alan
Kalish, Teaching & Learning Center;
Stephen Pentak, Art; Lewis
Ulman, English & Humanities; Mindy Wright,
Writing Workshop
LITERACY STUDIES WORKING GROUP and
LITERACY STUDIES AT OSU present a conversation with
MIKE ROSE
Tuesday, May 17
Hopkins
Hall 262
Rose
will discuss The Mind at Work:
The Intelligence of American Workers (Viking,
2004).
The
introduction and afterword are available at www.mikerosebooks.com.
Reception immediately following at the
George Wells Knight
House,
Space
is limited. Please let us know if you
will attend at
lantz.38@osu.edu or 688-0265.
Mike Rose is the award-winning author of Possible Lives:
The Promise of Public Education in
Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of
Mike Rose’s visit is
sponsored by the Literacy Studies Working Group of the Institute for Collaborative
and Public Humanities, with additional support from the
The Literacy Studies
Working Group 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. The Group aims to
promote collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their
constituents, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities,
medicine, and law.
If you would like your name
added to the LSWG listserv, contact Susan Hanson at hanson.94@osu.edu.