Thursday Evening, May 4th
 
 

4.00 to 7.00 pm	Registration
7.00 - 8.00 pm	Dinner
8.00 pm	Welcome to Inkshedders
8.15 pm	Book Launch Roger Graves, University of Western Ontario Russ Hunt, St. Thomas University Diana Wegner, Douglas College Tom Greenwald, Phyllis Rozendal, & John Spencer, York University Writing centres, writing seminars, writing cultures: Writing instruction in Anglo-Canadian universities: An update Natasha Artemeva, Carleton University Catherine Schryer, University of Waterloo Rhetorical Genre Studies and beyond: An overview and where do we go from here?
9.15 pm	Celebrating

Friday, May 5
 

7.30 - 8.45 am	Breakfast
9.00 - 10.15 am	Session #1 HISTORICAL CONTEXTS Miriam Horne, McGill University: Inkshedding: History as context FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION AND INKSHEDDING
10.15 - 10.30 am	Coffee/Snack Break
10.30 am - 12.15 pm	Session #2 GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS Michael Ryan, Carleton University Participatory action research: Bringing inkshedding to Costa Rica FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING Chris Higgens, University of British Columbia War and peace? A fictional inquiry into life story FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING and DISCUSSION OF SESSION #2
12.30 - 1.30 pm	Lunch
1.30 - 3.00 pm	Session #3 INSTRUCTIONAL CONTEXTS Donna Copsey Haydey, University of Winnipeg Cognitive text-processing strategies: Supporting active reading engagement FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING Karen E. Smith, University of Manitoba Explorations in the writing of video poetry: Me/My hometown as creative context for  building professional identity FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING and DISCUSSION OF SESSION #3
3.00 - 3.15 pm	Coffee/Snack Break
3.15 - 5.00 pm	Session #4 EMOTIVE AND INTERSUBJECTIVE CONTEXTS Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi, University of British Columbia The emotive context of writing (The celebration of language and emotion) FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING Karen Krasny, York University Writing Consciousness: Re-examining the intersubjective relationship among  author, text, and reader FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING and DISCUSSION OF SESSION #4
5.00 - 6.30 pm	Informal Reflection and Conversation
6.30 - 8.00 pm	Dinner
8.00 pm on	Reading, Discussing, etc.

Saturday, May 6
 

7.30 - 8.45 am	Breakfast
8.45 - 12.15 pm	Session #5 PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS
8.45 - 10.45 am	Natasha Artemeva, Carleton University Crossing contexts: A study of novices' trajectories in learning engineering genres FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING Catherine Schryer, University of Waterloo Academic writing as a form of professional writing: A Rhetorical Genre Approach FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING Patricia Patchet-Golubev, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto Nurses as writers: The professional/expressive divide FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING
10.45 - 11.00 am	Coffee/Snack Break
11.00 am - 12.15 pm	W. Brock MacDonald, Woodsworth College, University of Toronto Learning to write in criminology FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING Diana Wegner, Josie Padro, & Kathleen Konrad, Douglas College Client-based research projects: Students negotiating organizational culture,  client priorities, and classroom goals FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING and DISCUSSION OF SESSION #5
12.30 - 1.30 pm	Lunch
1.45 - 3.15 pm	Session #6 ASSESSMENT CONTEXTS Phyllis Hildebrandt, University of Manitoba & Lakeshore School Division Implementing the new middle years’ assessment policy in Manitoba:  What should support look like? FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING Roger Graves, University of Western Ontario Outcomes and incomes: Contexts for writing throughout the curriculum FOLLOWED BY INKSHEDDING and DISCUSSION OF SESSION #6
3.15 - 3.30 pm	Coffee/Snack Break
3.30 - 6.30 pm	Ruminating, Cogitating, Collaborating, Mulling, (you know)
6.30 - 8.00 pm	Dinner
8.00 - Midnight	Low Stakes Talent Night

Sunday, May 7
 

7.30 - 8.45 am	Breakfast
9.00 - 10.00 am	Session #7 WRAP-UP Russ Hunt, St. Thomas University Contextualizing Context
10.00 - 10.15 am	Coffee/Snack Break
10.15 - 11.30 am	Annual General Meeting
11.30 am - 12.30 pm	Lunch
12:30 pm	Bus Leaves for the Airport