The OSU Literacy Studies Working Group of
The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities

 

WINTER 2006 Newsletter

 

Little more than a year ago the Literacy Studies Working Group and Literacy Studies @ OSU formed. We began meeting and organizing activities in an effort to initiate a campus-wide conversation, or set of conversations, about literacy.  During 2006, we seek to broaden the range of critical approaches to literacy and literacies, and intensify the levels of  interest and participation through a variety of presentations and events, a roster of smaller discussion and reading groups organized along topical lines, more visits by Ohio-based scholars, and the campus-wide interdisciplinary graduate student seminar.

Harvey J. Graff

January 2006

 

Mark your calendar now for these Winter Quarter events:

 

Thursday, January 12th   Literacies and Social Action

4:00-5:30 p.m. at George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue

Organized and moderated by MOLLIE BLACKBURN, and featuring

DAVID BLOOME (Language, Literacy & Culture), “Literacy as Social Action: Race and Language in a Seventh Grade Language Arts Poetry Lesson”

BRENDA BRUEGGEMANN (English), “Enabling Literacy: Disability Rights and Writes”

CAROLINE CLARK (Language, Literacy & Culture) “Literacy and Identity Beyond the Classroom: High School Students Engaged in Community-Based Inquiry”

AMY ZAHARLICK (Anthropology), “Literacy Development in an American Indian Education Program: Difficulties and Constraints”

      Please let us know if you plan to attend at lantz.38@osu.edu or 688-0265.

 

Friday, January 13th   Oral History and the Digital Revolution with MICHAEL FRISCH
11:30-1:30 p.m. at George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue

A light lunch will be served. Please let us know at lantz.38@osu.edu if you will attend.

 

Michael Frisch teaches at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of Town into City (Harvard University Press, 1972), A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History (SUNY Press, 1990) and, with photographer Milton Rogovin, Portraits in Steel (Cornell University Press, 1993). Frisch has been refining new digital tools that offer direct access to the audio and video content of oral history collections, avoiding the mediation through prior text transcription that is usually requisite for collection access. 

 

At this presentation Frisch will discuss literacy as applied to orality and visuality to emphasize and demonstrate how different it is to work directly with the documentation in its oral/visual form, and what a different push this gives to imagining its uses, along a spectrum from research to education to application. His current work is being conducted through The Randforce Associates (http://www.randforce.com) in the University at Buffalo Technology Incubator.

 

Other Winter Quarter events will be announced soon.  Watch for announcements about

Performance Literacies, Literacy and Language, and Literacy and Writing.

 

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A History of the Book Reading Group began to meet last quarter.

For information and to indicate your interest,

contact Cynthia Brokaw, Department of History

brokaw.22@osu.edu

 

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Specifically for Graduate Students:

 

 

Bagels, Coffee, and Conversation with

MICHAEL FRISCH

Friday, January 13  9:00-10:30am 

Denney Hall, Room 311

164 West 17th Avenue

 

 

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

 

MONTHLY SEMINAR with LUNCH

Friday, January 27 11:30 – 1:00

George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue

 

Also, Friday, February 24 11:30 – 1:00

George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue

Details forthcoming.

 

For more information, contact Kelly Bradbury bradbury.18@osu.edu

 

 

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A Preview of Spring 2006:

 

Thursday, April 13   Literacy, Families, Orphanages, Apprenticeship with JOHN MURRAY, Department of Economics, University of Toledo. An Ohio-based Literacy Researchers lecture series event

 

Wednesday, May 10   One Nation Divisible with MICHAEL B. KATZ, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania (co-sponsored by the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, Department of History, and Department of Sociology)

 

Thursday and Friday, May 11-12  SHIRLEY BRICE HEATH, Professor at Large, Brown University, Departments of Education and Anthropology, Watson Institute for International Studies and Professor Emerita, Stanford University.

 

 

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, education, 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.

 

LSWG  Executive Committee

Harvey J. Graff, English & History                                            graff.40@osu.edu

Steve Acker, TELR & Communications/Journalism                   acker.1@osu.edu

Terry Barrett, Adv. Computing Ctr./Art & Design                     barrett.8@osu.edu

Mollie Blackburn, Education                                                     blackburn.99@osu.edu

Marcia Farr, Education & English                                             farr.18@osu.edu

Anne Fields, Library                                                                 fields.179@osu.edu

Henry Fields, Dentistry & prof. schools liaison               fields.31@osu.edu

Susan Fisher, Biology                                                               fisher.14@osu.edu

Carolina Gill, Ind., Intr., & Visual Comm. Design                      gill.175@osu.edu

Kay Bea Jones, Architecture                                                     jones.76@osu.edu

Alan Kalish, Teaching & Learning Center                                  kalish.3@osu.edu

Beverly Moss, English & CSTW                                               moss.1@osu.edu

Amy Pope-Harman, Pulmonary & Critical Care                        harman-1@medctr.osu.edu

Amy Shuman, English & Folklore                                              shuman.1@osu.edu

Lewis Ulman, English & College of Humanities              ulman.1@osu.edu

Mindy Wright, Director, Writing Workshop                              wright.7@osu.edu

Susan Hanson, PhD Candidate, English                         hanson.94@osu.edu

 

Edward Adelson                                                                       adelson.3@osu.edu

Randy Smith                                                                             smith.70@osu.edu

Chris Zacher                                                                             zacher.1@osu.edu

 

 

Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities

George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15th Avenue
Libby Lantz 688-0265 or lantz.38@osu.edu

 

The Literacy Studies Working Group is supported by the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, College of Humanities, Department of English, and Arts and Science Colleges.

 

If you would like your name added to the LSWG listserv, contact Susan Hanson at hanson.94@osu.edu