11th Annual Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium Schedule
Graduate Student Panels
Wednesday, April 21st, 10am - 11am CST: Education and Writing
Moderator: María Carvajal Regidor
Bruce Kovanen, "Tracing the Contours of Literate Activity in Collaborative Laboratory Environments"
Logan Middleton, "(Not) Bringing the University to the Prison: Abolition and the Education Justice Project as Case Study"
Elizabeth Matresse, "Collaborative Writing and the Links Between Writing Centers and Medieval Scriptoria"
Thursday, April 22nd, 12pm - 1:15pm, CST: Multimodal Composing
Moderator: Niki Turnipseed
Bri Lafond, "'This Citation is Blocked in Your Country': Multimodal Citation Practices on Networked Platforms"
Savannah Block, "Avatars of The Palace: Material Multimodality, Identity, and Community"
Finola McMahon, "Playing as Queering: Glitches as Queer Potential"
Friday, April 23rd, 2:15pm, CST: Graduate Reflections
Paul Beilstein, María Carvajal Regidor, Lisa Chason, Niki Turnipseed, and Autumn West
Keynote Address
Friday, April 23rd, 1pm - 2pm, CST: Keynote
Eileen Lagman, "Approximation and Magnitude: Degrees of Literacy in Precarious Life"
In this talk, Dr. Lagman will offer reflections on what it means to study literacy in a cultural moment characterized by precarity, grief, and loss. She'll draw on her ethnographic research with Filipino migrant workers and call center employees--workers considered anything from disposable and temporary to essential and heroic. She'll discuss how literacy often presents itself as a means of stability and security while at the same time appearing in workers' lives as something slippery, uncertain, risky, or out-of-reach. In doing so, she'll consider how attending to precarity might highlight dimensions of literacy activity that are imbued with affects, vitality, failures, and loss.
Eileen Lagman is an Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also affiliate faculty in the Asian American Studies Program and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She teaches courses on literacy, qualitative research, and cultural rhetoric. She is a 2015 graduate of the Center for Writing Studies.
