[CBW_Exec] CBW 2013--Important to READ and REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL!

[J. Elizabeth Clark]

You guys are AMAZING!  We are going to have a great year.  I've been listening to this conversation and I'm excited about the great ideas we have here, the ways this is pushing our work ahead, and the ways we are thinking of new ideas and new directions.  I also particularly appreciate Steve and Hannah's careful thoughts about what direction we should go in.


Thanks to Shannon for getting our new EB folks on the list.  I've added Wendy Olsen into the conversation since she and Steve may lead a roundtable for us. So, please do continue with "reply all" here so Wendy can see the conversation.


I'm going to attempt to distill this conversation to move us towards a consensus for the program so we can get invitations out to folks.  I think (?) this is a combination of the ideas we've passed around, spinning off of the text that Steve and Cheryl shared with us.


I think we've agreed that we want to focus on Basic Writing and Race.  Great!  


I think we should approach Victor Villanueva and Malea Powell for keynotes to start.  Bill, can you contact Victor?  Does anyone know Malea?  If not, I will e-mail her.


Steve and Wendy, I'd love to do a roundtable featuring both of you and your work on BW and whiteness.  Do you want to add in Scott Lyons?  People were very excited by this!  If you are willing to do the roundtable, I think it would be a GREAT addition!  Who knows Scott personally?


In addition to the keynotes, I think we should do the poster session again.  We don't need to work this out now, it can be a placeholder in the program and we can send to the CBW-L list later, as we did last year.  That worked well, but I want to give it a little more time next year--I think it was a little rushed.


I would also like to add in a roundtable on publishing and grant writing at the end of the day, since that's something we've seen interest in on the CBW Facebook page and other forums.  

If we do 2 keynotes, 2 roundtables, and an extended poster-session, we have a lovely program.


What do you think?


I have not included, here, Ian Marshall.  I'm very open to inviting him, but I'm not sure where he would fit in in this formulation.


What do you think?


Starting Title:

 "BW and Race: A Symposium"--not very sexy--any thoughts for making this stronger?


Liz







J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.
Professor of English 
LaGuardia Community College--CUNY
e-mail:  lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu
Phone:  718.482.5665 
www.jelizabethclark.com