To faculty and staff members who have been asked to write
pieces for Out of Iowa, which is scheduled for publication
in late May: Please send your writing to Amanda via e-mail or drop it off in
308 ASAP. Layout and design must begin soon to meet our deadline.
This spring, the English Department's annual Undergraduate Honors Award Ceremony
is Thursday, May 1 in the South Room of the Iowa Memorial Union. (Note: This
year we're going a little later to avoid Riverfest and being drowned out by
the inevitable rock band practicing in the ballroom next door.) A reception
will begin in the Lobby at 3:30. The Awards Ceremony will start at 4. Please
mark your calenders, especially all you thesis advisors whose presentations
are so important to the success of the ceremony.
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW (Rhetorics of Inquiry for a New Century)
A Symposium Sponsored by the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (featuring
members of the UI's English Department)
April 25-26, 2003
S401 Pappajohn Business Building
The University of Iowa
A great deal has happened since the University of Iowa pioneered the idea of rhetorics of inquiry in 1984 by convening an NEH-sponsored seminar on the subject. Globalization, digitalization, emphases on identity and on the shifting role of academic institutions within societies - these and other changes have affected the rhetorical situation in which inquiry is conducted. We will inquire together how these changes are suggesting new forms of critical practice and new opportunities for the application of rhetorical criticism to the production, dissemination, and reception of claims to knowledge.
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SCHEDULE
Friday, April 25
3:00-3:50 Welcome
John Keller
Dean, Graduate College
“Rhetorics of Inquiry: The Very Idea”
Deirdre McCloskey
The University of Illinois, Chicago
John Nelson
Political Science
The University of Iowa
4:00-5:15: Panel I: REVISITING THE DISCIPLINES IN A DIGITAL AGE.
Assuming that our "first encounters" with digital technologies involved
applying traditional conceptual frameworks to understanding the impact of digitality
on academic disciplines, practices of inquiry, and so on, this panel features
"second encounters." The speakers and audience members will "revisit"
the promises and implications of digitalization in the humanities, sciences,
and the professions.
Alberto Segre
Management Sciences
The University of Iowa
Eric Gidal
English
The University of Iowa.
Sarah Townsend
Education
The University of Iowa
Introducer and Moderator
Thom Swiss
English and POROI
The University of Iowa.
5:30: Reception
Saturday, April 26
8:30 Coffee and donuts
9:00-10:15 Panel II: MAKING BOUNDARIES, CROSSING BOUNDARIES.
The panel will discuss the rapidly changing boundaries of the local, national, and global, and the spaces between them; as well as boundaries between academia and the public sphere, and those resulting from new, non-essentialized conceptions of gender and sexuality.
Denise Powers
Political Science
The University of Iowa.
Barbara Eckstein
English
The University of Iowa.
Aimee Carillo-Rowe
Rhetoric
The University of Iowa
Introducer and Moderator:
James Throgmorton
Regional and Urban Planning
The University of Iowa
l0:30-ll:45: Panel III: POWER AND KNOWLEDGE
The panel and audience will discuss changing views about the relationship between
knowledge and power, and how these views affect issues of performance vs. representation,
natural vs. constructed, rhetoric vs. philosophy.
Daniel Gross
Rhetoric
The University of Iowa
Vershawn Young
David Stern
Philosophy
The University of Iowa
Moderator and Introducer:
David Depew
Communication Studies and POROI
The University of Iowa.
12:00-1:00 Concluding Remarks and Open Discussion
Facilitator:
John Lyne
Communication
The University of Pittsburgh
1:00 Adjournment
Minnesota University Press has agreed to publish Kevin Kopelson's book, Neatness Counts.
Lectures of interest to the English Department, Spring 2003
Featuring or hosted by members of the English Department
March 27-29, Stephanie Richards, "Southern Women," University Theatres Gallery
March 27-28, American Studies: David Hall, Ida Beam visitor, details TBA
March 28-30, Craft, Critique, Culture Conference. For more information, see: http://www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf/
April 7, 4:00 p.m. Anne Basting Davis, Director of the Center for the Study of Aging and an award winning playwright, will be here to discuss her play, Timeslips, and the theories of identity and narrative that have inspired her use of narrative as a means to communicate with Alzheimer's patients and to capture their experiences in theater. See her website, http://www.timeslips.org, for stunning photographs of the project.
April 7, 8:00 p.m. Patricia Hampl, Prairie Lights (hosted by the Nonfiction Writing Program)
April 11-12, Mid American American Studies Association and Great Lakes American Studies Association meets here, details TBA
April 14, 7:30 p.m. Todd Porterfield, Art Historian, University of Montreal, "Parisian Conquests of Egyp," 18th and 19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium: European Empires Series in E109 Art Building. Reception following.
April 24, 4:00 p.m. Priya Joshi, English Department, Washington University, "Hindi Film," South Asian Seminar, Phillips Hall
April 25, 4:00 p.m. Priya Joshi, English Department, Washington University, " "Public Culture, Private Selves: The Social Lives of Institutions in Nineteenth-Century India," English Department Lectures Series and 18th and 19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium: European Empires Series. Gerber Lounge. Reception following at 1157 E. Court St.
May 2, 4:00 p.m. English Department Lecture Series: Florence
Boos, "Fanny Forrester: A Working-Class Woman Poet and the Limits of Language."
Gerber Lounge.
Reading Matters will appear on the Web and in faculty inboxes every other Wednesday as a combination of memos from the chair, announcements, deadlines, publication announcements, notices of speakers, conferences, and visitors of interest to the department. To be included in Reading Matters, announcements should be e-mailed to Amanda at am_17@hotmail.com by Monday afternoon.
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