Panel: Critical Perspectives
Recording of session: https://youtu.be/fwyDyjjYoUs
Writing centres and global coloniality
Stevie Bell & Brian Hotson
Presentation slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1deVYoeQau0J9o7Loe1Fh3jAdo9LKwnzE/view?usp=sharing
While the support provided by writing centres can be quite impactful, it is not value neutral. This is most evident on the global stage where writing centres are fast becoming neocolonial tools of US public diplomacy. We see the US Department of State writing centre initiatives across South America, North and East Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia. In this session, we zoom out from our local contexts to the global writing centre scene. What we find betrays our commitments to social, cultural and linguistic justice and our decolonial pedagogies.
Just Do It: Celebrating plurilingual writing in an interdisciplinary writing contest
Julia Lane & Hermine Chan
Access our slides here: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFBRVxpwxs/rWF3SVVV6dhmsV2CAU3YgQ/view?utm_content=DAFBRVxpwxs&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink
– Stevie
Link to the Plurilingual writing prize: https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/slc-uwc/issue/view/259
from Julia Lane