<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4a8b35d6-7fff-1819-1fc5-eb85f5eb403a" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join us! </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Write It Out, the 4th annual Writing Innovation Symposium, will take place online and onsite February 3rd and 4th at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Hosted by the Social Innovation Initiative and the Marquette University Libraries, this event is sponsored by Mount Mary University, Bedford/St. Martin’s, and the Haggerty Museum of Art. The </span><a href="https://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/writing-innovation-symposium.php#upcomingwis" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">program</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> features plenary speakers </span><a href="https://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/writing-innovation-symposium.php#Plenaryam" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Jesssica Edwards</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><a href="https://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/writing-innovation-symposium.php#Plenarypm" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Derek Handley</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; it also includes presentations, workshops, a combined poster session/display, and a closing unconference. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Attendees can apply to become </span><a href="https://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/writing-innovation-symposium.php#Bedford" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bedford/St. Martin’s Writing Innovation Scholars</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> through 1/21. </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/write-it-out-the-2022-writing-innovation-symposium-tickets-227881428487" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is open through 1/28. Attend plenaries and panels online or join us onsite for one or both days. Cost ranges from $25 to $80. Pre-registration is required. Onsite there is a mask and vaccination + booster requirement. Read on for details or visit our website: </span><a href="https://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/writing-innovation-symposium.php" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/writing-innovation-symposium.php</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2022 symposium theme, “write it out,” acknowledges—and celebrates—the many ways we use writing to remember, acknowledge, and heal. It also embraces the ways we use writing to gain clarity, assuredness, and control in the face of uncertainty or adversity. Ultimately, writing it out helps us “ride it out,” whatever it may be. We write out our most personal challenges, and we write out collectively in response to shared struggles. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For the 4th annual Writing Innovation Symposium, we invite writers and writing educators to share their strategies for “writing it out”: </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Jesssica Edwards will lead the plenary workshop,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Writing to Liberate: On Self, Community, and Meaningfulness” on Thursday, 2/3 from 9:30-11:30am Central. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Edwards writes: As we think about just how connected we are as people and consider how “Writing it Out” aids the process of engagement, I encourage us all to think through the possibilities of writing to liberate. The question that we’ll explore is “How might the teaching of writing liberate us? Our students? Our communities?” (</span><a href="https://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/writing-innovation-symposium.php#Plenaryam" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Read more…</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.) </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Derek Handley will deliver the plenary presentation, “</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After the End of America's "Longest War": Veteran Students, Civic Rhetorics, and Educational Possibilities,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">” on Thursday, 2/3 from 1-2:15pm Central.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Dr. Handley writes: This presentation explores a participatory, rhetorical approach to writing instruction which allows active military and veteran students to connect their writing with civic engagement and military service. It may also reduce the divide between veteran and non-veteran students. (</span><a href="https://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/writing-innovation-symposium.php#Plenarypm" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Read more . . . </span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. ) </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The </span><a href="https://www.marquette.edu/707-hub/writing-innovation-symposium.php#upcomingwis" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">full program</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> offers panels, workshops, posters, and multimodal displays include community writing, critical pedagogy, digital media and rhetorical analysis, equitable frameworks for assessment, graduate student career formation, intercultural communication, labor-based grading, life writing for survival, literature courses as writing courses, memory, mindfulness in the writing classroom, navigating graduate student identities, poetry in motion, racial reckonings, reflection, seasonal approaches to COVID stress and writing, senior capstone curricula, social innovation, social justice pedagogy, teaching connection across disconnects, writing as archiving, writing centers, and writing out systemic bias on </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wikipedia</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Patrick W. Thomas, PhD | </span><a href="mailto:pthomas1@udayton.edu" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">pthomas1@udayton.edu</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Associate Professor of English | Director of Undergraduate Studies</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(p): 937.229.3463 | (t): @patrickwthomas</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">he/him/his</font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>