601: Exploring the Intersections of Language, Community, and Power in This Year’s Writer as Witness Text

Session Location: Hall of Science (HoS) Room TBD | Google Map

Date: Thursday, August 20

Time: 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Presenters: Kelly Joyner (Director, Writing Studies Program and Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, CAS | Literature), Kim Ross (Professorial Lecturer, CAS | Literature), and Adam Tamashasky (Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, CAS | Literature)

Session Description:

Share, discuss, and create ways to engage this year’s Writer as Witness text—Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity by Joseph Lee—in your class. We’ll highlight many of the ideas Lee presents, including, indigeneity in the U.S., politics, power, and real estate, and commerce in and around land owned by indigenous people. Participants will collaborate on class activity development and learn from faculty across academic contexts.