Keynote Sessions
The 2010 Watson Conference will feature eight 35-minute keynote sessions, each devoted to a single keynote speaker. During each session, the speaker will offer a ten-minute summary of his/her position before opening up the floor for discussion.
To ensure a multimodal, participatory environment, we will facilitate a tri-loop conversation by:
- Posting full-text presentations of each keynote on the conference website by September 20th, 2010 for all participants to read.
- Creating a series of online discussion forums by October 1st in which participants can pose questions for individual keynotes to address during presentations.
- Setting up an open-microphone for audience participants to voice follow-up questions during the final portion of each keynote session.
Keynote Session Descriptions:
Damián Baca
"Rethinking Composition: 500 Years Later"
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Deborah Brandt
"Working English: When People Write for Pay"
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Suresh Canagarajah
"Multilingual Negotiation Strategies in Working English"
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Scott Lyons
"There's No Translation for It: The Rhetorical Sovereignty of Indigenous Languages"
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Catherine Prendergast
"Ethos of Paper: Here and There"
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Jacqueline Jones Royster
"A Moment in Time: Public Literacy and Civic Engagement"
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John Trimbur
"English in a Splintered Metropolis: South Africa after Apartheid"
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Vershawn Ashanti Young
"'Nah, We Straight': An Argument Against Code Switching"
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