Past Events
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Apr 11CTRW @ CCCCs Recap
Helen C. White 7191
This CTRW event will present research projects on writing and writing studies from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. The ‘4 Cs’ is the leading conference on writing and writing studies in the United States, and this panel will present their work – a short version of the presentations given at 4Cs – and …
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Mar 21Research Showcase & Mixer
Helen C. White 6191
Please join us for a CTRW “Research Showcase and Mixer” event. The aim of the event is to showcase research in writing being conducted by faculty, graduate students, and instructional academic staff, highlighting their methodologies and approaches to questions and problems in writing and literacy studies. The event will also help to match those with …
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Mar 7Mya Poe Guest Lecture
Helen C. White 6191
Join us in welcoming Mya Poe, Associate Professor of English at Northeastern University for formal talk at 4 pm on Thursday, March 7. Assessing Writing While Thinking Like a Rhetorician: Justice-Oriented Possibilities Every new generation of teachers is promised writing assessment technologies that will correct for the failures of previous assessment technologies. But technocentric approaches …
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Feb 23CTLM: “Coffee and Copilot” Three-Part Series on Generative AI
Union South CTLM "Coffee and Copilot" Series
Please join our colleagues at the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring (CTLM) for their new three-part “Coffee and Copilot” series about generative AI, specifically focusing on the rollout of Microsoft’s Copilot platform at UW–Madison. Please see link for more details. The three events take place on: CTLM Announcement Copilot is Microsoft’s generative artificial intelligence …
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Feb 22Empowering Students through Mindfulness Panel
Helen C. White 7191
Please join us for a panel titled “Empowering Students through Mindfulness: Simple Tools to Maximize Learning Outcomes with Writers” with Interim ESL Director Joseph Nosek, along with Lecturers Lidka Rao and Shauna Crowther from the ESL Program. During the presentation, they will discuss their new pilot program, which involves integrating simple mindfulness exercises at the …
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Feb 8CTRW “Big Questions” Event
Helen C. White Hall 7191
The CTRW is forging its mission and vision for the future. To do so, it seeks to identify key areas and ‘big questions’ to pursue, both as a research agenda, and as a way to identify itself as a center of excellence distinguished from other centers on campus and around the country. This event will serve as …
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Nov 30Writing with AI Across the Disciplines Panel
Helen C. White Hall 6191
Join us in welcoming a multidisciplinary panel on the use of AI, machine learning, and large language models (LLM) in academic and professional writing.
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Nov 9Elizabeth Wardle Guest Lecture
Helen C. White Hall 6191
Join us in welcoming Elizabeth Wardle, distinguished professor and director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at the Miami University of Ohio, for a brown-bag talk at noon and then formal talk at 4 pm on Thursday, Nov. 9. Deep Change Around Writing and Learning: Reclaiming Our Public Mission Higher education is at a …