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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dear Colleagues:<br>
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We hope you can join us for what promises to be an amazing series of speaker
events, concurrent sessions, and associated conversations concerning the local,
everyday, and “ordinary” dimensions of the humanities. <br>
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Right here on our campus. Pre-registration deadlines fast approaching
(2/20/2011)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Writing Democracy: A Rhetoric of (T)Here<br>
March 9-11, 2011<br>
<a href="http://writingdemocracy.weebly.com">http://writingdemocracy.weebly.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Highlights include </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>SEVEN </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>award-winning scholars from across the
nation to offer featured presentations on a range of topics important to
researchers, teachers, administrators, and the general public—<i>writing
and writers in a participatory democracy </i></span><o:p></o:p></li>
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mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>FOUR</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Humanities Texas exhibits on various
aspects of local history and art and life, especially relevant to our
conversations surrounding writing democracy </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Multiple,
concurrent sessions drawn from a national call for papers and bringing in
individuals from across the nation and disciplines to likewise engage the
conference theme </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Conference
proceedings to be published by national journal (Community Literacy
Journal, Fall 2012) </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>CLiC’s
first documentary film, likewise concerning civic engagement in local
contexts and followed by a panel discussion with local African American
leadership and former students who played key roles in a civic engagement
project they helped found in 1973 (Norris Community Club) </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A
program planning workshop, which brings together national team of scholars
and teachers to explore the best next steps in extending local
university-community partnerships across a national network reminiscent of
the one offered in the 1930s through the Federal Writers Project. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
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This and more at <a href="http://writingdemocracy.weebly.com">http://writingdemocracy.weebly.com</a><br>
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Register today! <a href="http://writingdemocracy.weebly.com/registration1.html">http://writingdemocracy.weebly.com/registration1.html</a><br>
<br>
Yours, <br>
Shannon Carter<br>
<br>
Shannon Carter, PhD<br>
Associate Professor of English<br>
Texas A&M-Commerce<br>
<a href="http://www.shannoncarter.info">http://www.shannoncarter.info</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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