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Mid-winter Conference, February 23-25, 2007
Nashville, Tennessee

Friday

Time Format Title/Speaker(s)
Noon - 2 p.m. Workshop I “Working the Word and the Image: Embodiment in Socially and Spatially-Situated Practice”
Julie Cheville, University of Maine, Orono
Margaret Sheehy, University at Albany
“An Integrated Theory of Critical Literacy: Approaches to Data Analysis”
Hilary Janks, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
2:30-4:30 p.m. Workshop II "Critical Literacy and Theatre in Urban Public Schools: The Neighborhood Bridges Program"
Maria Asp, Neighborhood Bridges, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Embodiment in Virtual Environments: Exploring Literacies, Identity, Research, and Community"
Charles Kinzer, Teachers College, Columbia University
Angela Thomas, University of Sydney
7:00-8:15 p.m. Welcome and Keynote Speaker “Like Guy Ropes on a Tent: An Interdependent Model of Critical Literacy”
Hillary Jenks, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
8:15-9:15 p.m. Opening Reception

Saturday

Time Format Title/Speaker(s)
8:15 - 9:15 a.m. Keynote Speaker “Literacies of the Lower Frequencies: Social Ghosts and Experimental Media Pedagogy”
Walt Jacobs, University of Minnesota
9:25 -10:00a.m. Roundtable Session A
10:00 -10:30a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 -11:05a.m. Roundtable Session B
11:15a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Keynote Speaker “Amateur, Mashed Up, and Derivative: New Media Literacies and Otaku Culture”
Mizuko Ito, University of Southern California, Keio University
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Featured Researcher Box Lunch Sessions
1:45-2:20 p.m. Roundtable Session C
2:30-3:05 p.m. Roundtable Session D
3:05-3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30-4:05 p.m. Roundtable Session E
4:15-5:15  p.m. Speaker “Performative Literacies: Towards a Critical Analysis of Embodied Practices”
Carmen Medina, University of British Columbia
5:30-6:30 Graduate Student Reception
8:15-11:00 Evening at the Bluebird (Optional Registration)

Sunday

Time Format Title/Speaker(s)
9 - 10 a.m. Speaker “New Media & New Learning Communities: Critical, Creative, and Independent”
Jay Lemke, University of Michigan
10:10 - 10:45 a.m. Roundtable Session F
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:35  a.m. Roundtable Session G
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Closing Synthesis I Brian Edmiston, The Ohio State University
12:15 - 12:45 p.m. Closing Synthesis II Robert Jiménez, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
12:45 - 1:00 p.m. Final Comments  

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