[Students] EGAD Annual Conference

[rcantrell]

EGAD (English Graduates for Academic Development) is
sponsoring, “Agora: Marketplace of Ideas Graduate
Conference by EGAD at TAMUC,” which will take place on
Friday, April 13.  The conference organizers have invited
three important scholars to speak:

Roberta Seelinger Trites (11:00-12:00)—Young Adult
Literature “‘A String Connecting All of Your Stories’:
Conceptual Blending in Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons
Why.”

Jay Telotte (2:15-3:15)—Film Studies: “Robot Monster and
the ‘Watchable . . . Terrible’ Cult Film.”

Sara Cushing Weigle (5:00-6:00)—Applied Linguistics and
ESL: “Issues in Automated Scoring of Writing for English
Language Learners”

The conference organizers invite TAMUC students to attend
the conference free of charge; students are also invited to
attend the Friday evening banquet.  However, in order to
accommodate banquet attendees, students must make
reservations by contacting Rachel Cantrell at
EGAD.TAMUC at gmail.com by 3:00 p.m., Monday, April 9.



For more details, visit the conference website at
http://egadtamuc.wordpress.com/schedule/.



EGAD wishes to thank the Student Organizations and
Allocations Committee for helping to make this event
possible.



Rachel Cantrell

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