Past Event Category: 2025
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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 …
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Mar 13Stephanie Kerschbaum Guest Lecture
Stephanie Kerschbaum
Helen C. White Hall 7191
The CTRW is hosting a guest lecture from Stephanie Kerschbaum titled “Learning from Student Writing to Address Educational Injustice and Access.” Kerschbaum offered the following description of her talk: “Contemporary conversations in writing studies are being shaped by continued demographic change in U.S. higher education alongside social, political, and cultural upheaval in the United States. …
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Feb 20Jenny Rice Guest Lecture
Jenny Rice
Grainger Hall 1295
The CTRW and the Communication Arts department are co-sponsoring an upcoming guest lecture from Jenny Rice titled: “It Can Also Make Us Sick‘: On Proxy Parrhesia and the Far-Right’s Brave Readers.”
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Feb 6Understanding Emotional Well-Being in the Teaching of Writing
Julia Goetze & Mathilde Garnier
Helen C. White Hall 7191
The CTRW is co-hosting an event with the Language Institute on emotional wellbeing and teaching writing in which Julia Goetze and Mathilde Garnier will not only offer a talk on this topic but also activities for participants to engage in throughout the hour. Goetze & Garnier offered the following overview of their talk: “Teaching is …