Dear CWS community,Happy 2020! We’re writing to announce some of the events that the Center for Writing Studies has planned for this Spring term. Mark your calendars for these events:
John Gallagher on his book Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing
Wednesday, January 29 from 1.00p-1.50p (Lincoln Hall 1066)
TBD
Wednesday, February 19 or Wednesday, February 26 from 1.00p-2.00p (Room TBD)
Wednesday, March 4 from 1.00p-1.50p (Lincoln Hall 1066)
Angela Haas (ISU) on Technical Communication and Decolonial Work
April 2020 (Exact Date TBD) from 1.00p-2.00p (Room TBD)
This year, our invited speaker will be
Eileen Lagman, assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thursday, April 23rd and Friday, April 24
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
Time and event details: TBD
Friday, February 7th @ 1.00p (107 EB)
Friday, March 6 @ 1.00p (107 EB)
Friday, April 10 @ 1.00p (107 EB)
Friday, May 8 @ 1.00p (107 EB)
CHAT Chat (Open to all! E-mail kovanen2@illinois.edu for access to readings)
CHAT Chat's first meeting will be held on Friday, Feb. 21 from 1.00p-2.00p in 107 English Building.
Friday, February 7 from 2.00p-3.30p (107 EB)
Friday, March 6 from 2.00p-3.30p (107 EB)
Friday, April 10 from 2.00p-3.30p (107 EB)
Friday, May 8 from 2.00p-3.30p (107 EB)
SIIP Team Meetings (for CWS students working on SIIP / WAE project)
Every Wednesday from 12.00p-1.00p (Meetings in Loomis)
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We also want to shout out a few local, non-CWS events that might of interest to you all.
- The Midwest Winter Workshop, organized by UIUC’s Rhetoric Society of America chapter, will be held on campus this year from Friday, February 7th to Saturday, February 8th. Communications graduate students Katie Bruner and Matt Pitchford have done a tremendous amount of work putting together this event, which consists of panel discussions and writing-based workshop pods led by regional rhetoric faculty.
- In conjunction with the 12th Annual Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Conference at UIUC is the 2020 Sociolinguistics Symposium to be held on campus on Thursday, February 27. Time and location TBD.
- The College of Education’s 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference will be held on Friday, March 6, from 8.00a-5.00p in the Education Building on campus. The application deadline is still open; submissions are due on Friday, January 31.
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Finally, while we'll post this schedule on our CWS website, feel free to access a Google Calendar readout of this schedule by following this
link. If you use Google Calendar and prefer to see all of your events more spatially (and/or don't want to plug in individual events to your own digital calendar) this might be a helpful option for you.
As always, please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns about any of this programming. Best wishes for a great semester ahead!
Logan Middleton and Bri Lafond
Assistant Directors, Center for Writing Studies