2012 Keynotes
The 2012 Watson Conference will feature ten 45-minute keynote sessions, each devoted to one keynote speakers. During each session, speakers will offer a ten-minute summary of their positions before opening up the floor for discussion. Each session will be moderated. Upon registration, all conference presenters and attendees will have on-line access to the eight keynote conference presentations and ten responses. (A hard copy of JAC issue in which these presentations and responses appear will be included in the conference packet).
Speakers and Abstracts:
Ralph Cintron, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Thinking Freedom Right/Left"
Ellen Cushman, Michigan State University
"A Translation For it: A Metamediational Framework for Multilingualism in Composition Research and Teaching"
Keith Gilyard, Penn State University
and Kamau Marcharia
"Writing Economies, Activism, and Community Work"
Jeanne Gunner, Chapman University
"Disciplinary Purification"
Joseph Harris, Duke University
"The Circulation of Student Texts in Composition Studies"
Rochelle Kapp, University of Cape Town
"Negotiating English and Literacy in a Time of Social Change"
Theresa Lillis, The Open University
"Sharing Knowledge? The Workings of Centering Institutions and Competing Economies of Signs in writing for Academic Publication"
Julie Lindquist, Michigan State University
"Time to Grow Them: The Case for Slow Research in a Fast Field"
LuMing Mao, Miami University
"Economies of Writing Writ Large: The Rhetoric of Chinese Nationalism"
Vivette Milson-Whyte, University of the West Indies, Mona
"(Academic) Writing in an Oral Economy: Perceptions of Gendered/Aged Consumers"
Moderator
Deborah Brandt, University of Wisconsin, Madison
