Past Events
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Sep 17Fostering Dialogue with Writing: A Pedagogy Workshop
Taylor Dickson and Matthew Louie
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
In times of increasing crisis and conflict, instructors may find themselves seeking strategies to move away from reactionary responses and create space for productive deliberation in the classroom. When paired with writing, structured classroom dialogue can support student skill development in listening across differences and holding more complex understandings of people and situations. This workshop …
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Apr 16Exploring AI with Faculty Fellows in AI and Knowledge
Ainehi Edoro and Anja Wanner
Helen C. White 7191
In this panel session with IRH fellows Ainehi Edoro and Anja Wanner, we explore big questions about the relationship between AI, writing, and language.
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Mar 19Multilingual Writing and Community Engagement in the Age of AI
Laura Gonzales
Helen C. White 6191
As writing studies researchers and teachers grapple with increasing demands for automation, particularly given the growing popularity of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), some multilingual writing studies scholars seem to be providing a clear and consistent message: It’s time to lean further into community. Drawing on 10 years of research with multilingual communities who leverage multiple …
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Feb 19Attitudes Toward Generative AI and Writing from Faculty Across the Disciplines – Initial Results From a Cross-Campus Study
Emily Hall
Helen C. White 7191
Emily Hall from the program in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) will share preliminary results from a campus-wide study on faculty attitudes toward generative AI and teaching writing across the disciplines and facilitate a conversation about how gen AI is influencing the teaching of writing across campus.
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Nov 13Writing and the Odyssey Project with Jennifer Fandel and Kevin Mullen
Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building
Revising the Future: The UW Odyssey Project’s writing-focused approach to “nontraditional” college classrooms in prison and the community Since 2003, the UW Odyssey Project has been developing and refining innovative approaches to engaging low-income adult students from marginalized communities through free, credit-bearing, jumpstart humanities courses. These courses, now also in four prisons across the state, …
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Oct 23Visiting Speaker: Raka Shome
Vilas Hall 4028
Communication Arts Colloquium, along with the CTRW, welcome Dr. Raka Shome on Thursday, October 23rd from 4 to 5:30 pm in Vilas 4028. Raka Shome, PhD, is The Harron Family Endowed Chair, and Professor of Communication at Villanova University. She writes on postcolonial cultures, transnational feminism and nationalism as they intersect with media/communication cultures. Her …
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Sep 25Introduction to The Reflection Space
Dan Pell, Rich Freese, Yuyen Chang
Helen C. White Hall 7191
Reflection is a valuable skill that helps you turn the feelings and events of your daily life into powerful opportunities to learn and grow. Many of us don’t need to be convinced of the power of reflection. Yet, integrating reflection into your daily routine can be challenging on your own. Join the CTRW as we …
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Apr 3Writing and Wellbeing Panel
Abigail Letak, Emily Machado, Taylor Dickson, Nora Harris
Helen C. White Hall 7191
A politically and culturally polarized country; ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza; lingering concerns about covid; upheaval in the federal government causing uncertainty about the project of higher education. It’s an anxious time to be teacher, let alone a teacher of writing, and the mental health of instructors and of students is at top of …