A week from today, the students in my senior seminar course will share the results of their hard work this semester. This event will differ from the traditional structure of scholarly presentations in in the following ways:
If you were to lead a workshop like this one, what genre of (hardware or software) tools would you teach?
Ground rules:
Memoir in a Digital Age
Learn to document and reflect upon your life through the use of various simple and affordable (or free!) digital tools and media. Participants will work with their choice of text, image, sound, and video to create a memoir appropriate for the digital age in which we live. No advanced computing skills required.George H. Williams is a teacher, scholar, volunteer, would-be hacker, indie enthusiast, nonprofit advocate, word herder, and world traveler.
A somewhat general request: I need pointers to extant scholarship on composition pedagogy for vision- and hearing-impaired students. And if that scholarship takes a historical view as far back as the nineteenth or eighteenth century, I would be especially interested.
Some (hopefully not confusing) background to my question:
Any advice or feedback would be much appreciated!
David Mazella writes:
Some Long 18th contributors who will be presenting or chairing at ASECS this week:
Kirstin Wilcox (Chair), Teaching 18c Poetry Roundtable, Thursday 8-9:30
Laura Rosenthal, “Too Exquisite For Laughter: British Sentimental Comedy,†“The Sentimental Gesture in The West Indian,†Thursday 8-9:30
Chris Vilmar, “Samuel Johnson at 300,†“Johnson Philologus,†Thursday 4:15-5:45
Sharlene Sayegh, “Roundtable on Carolyn Steedman’s Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age,†Friday 9:45-11:15
Carrie Shanafelt, “The Literature of the Scottish Enlightenment,†“The Rhetoric of Narrative in Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy,†Friday 11:30-1
Bill Levine, “Thematic and Solo Art Exhibitions in the Long Eighteenth Century,†“Animating the Spirit of High Art: de Loutherbourg’s Eidophusikon as a Critique of Royal Academy Exhibitions,†Saturday, 2-3:30
Dave Mazella, Laura Rosenthal, Maureen Harkin (Chair), Sharon Stanley, Louisa Shea, “Roundtable on David Mazella’s Making of Modern Cynicism,†Saturday 2-3:30
Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins, “Unromantic England,†“Romanticism’s Oriental Unconscious,†Saturday 3:45-5:30
Have I forgotten anyone? Planning to come? Let us know your plans. I’d especially love to hear from other 18th century bloggers to see if we can manage a rare face to face meeting. I’ll be in town Friday afternoon, staying through Sunday.
For the program, click here [PDF].
Best,
DM
To which I respond in comments:
Thanks for this, David! I was just checking in to see what might have been posted on the conference.
I’d very much like to be part of a “meetup†of eighteenth-century bloggers. I arrive on Thursday just in time for my first time slot, and then I’ll stay through Saturday late afternoon (or maybe Sunday early morning… I’m driving).
I’m on the schedule in a couple of time slots:
George H. Williams, “‘Sex and the City’ in the Eighteenth Century,†“The Power of Wow in Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now†(Roundtable), Thursday 2:30-4:00
George H. Williams, “Samuel Bradburn, E. P. Thompson, and Methodist Abolitionism, †“Slavery and Protestantism in the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century,†Thursday 4:15-5:45
Thursday 4:15-5:45
Anyone else…?