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Writing Democracy, The Project

At the first conference of Writing Democracy at Texas A&M- Commerce, March 9-11, 2011, over 150 scholars, students, and community members explored existing and possible ways to "write democracy" in the United States. Inspired by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s and calls for critical and ethical discourse responsive to local conditions and global realities, conference participants looked at place, history, local publics, and popular movements in an attempt to understand and promote democracy through research, writing, and action. The goal of the 2013 CCCC Workshop is to deepen the conversation about democracy that began in 2011 and continued at the 2012 CCCC Workshop by focusing on the idea of a political turn in our work as scholars, teachers, and activists in light of past and present movements for economic and social justice. Thus we ask: How can we contribute to the unfinished project of writing democracy?

The Political Turn

Writing Democracy for the 21st Century
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus Presents:

This We Believe
This We Believe is a video project aimed at expanding and archiving those conversations by asking students, teachers, and everyday citizens to record a short two-minute response to questions about democracy. Please record your essay during the 2013 Workshop or at the CCCC video booth (place to be announced).

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9 am-5 March 19, 2013 Wednesday, pm, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Riviera Hotel, Grande Ballroom F, First Floor CCCC Las Vegas, Nevada

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Featured Speakers
John Wesley Carlos
Medaled USA Track and Field Hall of Fame athlete and Olympian John Wesley Carlos made world history by raising a black-gloved fist along with gold medalist Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

Program
Workshop Co-Chairs Shannon Carter, Texas A&M-Commerce Deborah Mutnick, Long Island University-Brooklyn Steve Parks, Syracuse University Morning 9:00 9:15 10:15 11:00 11:15 Introductions ~ Carter, Mutnick, Parks This I Believe: Why I Am Here Today Democracy and the Open Hand/Closed Fist ~ Carlos, Carter, Welch Break Theories of Democratic Writing ~ Spellmeyer, Mutnick

Carmen Kynard

Author of Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies (2013), Carmen Kynard is associate professor of English and first year writing program director at St. Johns University.

Kurt Spellmeyer
Author of Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century (2003), Kurt Spellmeyer is professor of English and Director of Writing Program at Rutgers University.

Nancy Welch

Author most recently of Living Room: Teaching Public W riting in a Privatized World (2008), Nancy Welch is professor of English at Vermont University.

Workshop Facilitators

Anne G. Balay, Indiana University Northwest

Michele Eodici, U niversity of Oklahoma Eli Goldblatt, Temple University Laurie Grobman, Penn State Berks David Jolliffe, University of Arkansas at Fayatteville Ben Kuebrich, Syracuse University Micah Savaglio, Long Island University-Brooklyn

Afternoon 12:15 Lunch 1:00 Democratic Struggle: Writing On Line, Off Campus, and In the Streets ~ Kynard, Kuebrich, Parks 2:00 This We Believe, Part I: What We Share in Common 3:00 Break 3:15 This We Believe, Part II: What We Can Do in Common 5:00 Conclusion

Not only were American intellectuals in the 1930s trying to rediscover America...they were also trying to redefine it (19).
~ Jerrold Hirsch, Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers Project (2003)