Volume 23, Number 2-3, Summer-Fall 2006

Inkshed 24, May 3-6, London, ON

Heather Graves

Theresa Hyland

Roger Graves

Organizing Committee 

Alternative Discourses and Disciplinary Codes: Challenging, Cataloguing, and Reflecting on Reading and Writing Practices

What is the place of alternative discourses in the academy? How do they contribute to learning? When and where do alternative discourses conflict with disciplinary codes and communities of practice? And when does this conflict become transgressive and a violation? Are one discipline’s codes another discipline’s transgressions?

We invite you to submit proposals for presentations that take these and other questions about writing and learning that is alternative to disciplinary codes, exemplary of disciplinary codes, or seen as transgressions against these codes. Presentations that help define just what constitutes disciplinary codes and practices would also help identify what counts as alternative and what counts as transgressive.

Inkshed has always been a “working” conference that encourages alternative, if not completely transgressive, presentations. We encourage group presentations; demonstrations; activities; and imaginative or creative readings. Participants are strongly encouraged to “Inkshed” or respond in writing to presentations and to share these responses.

Deadline for Proposals: February 15, 2007

For more information, contact the Inkshed 24 Organizing Committee (Heather Graves, Theresa Hyland, and Roger Graves) c/o Roger Graves (rgraves3@uwo.ca; 519-661-2111x85785).

Information About the Conference

Inkshed 24 will be held in London, ON May 3 – 6 at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario. There will be a range of accommodations to choose from, including $40/night for a single residence room at Huron University College (shared bathroom) and $106/night at Windermere Manor (http://www.windermeremanor.com/), a stately hotel right on Western’s campus and a 10 minute walk from the meeting rooms.

We will offer a one-day registration for Saturday with an optional evening banquet.

Attractions of the conference, in addition to the stimulating presentations, will include the following:

• key note speaker Peter Vandenburg of DePaul University, Chicago, IL, talking about his work with multicultural rhetorics and the rhetoric of graffiti;
• a reading by noted Canadian author, Joan Barfoot, writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario;
• a book exhibit featuring scholarly and textbook publications by Canadian academics
• a trip to a preview performance of ??? at the Stratford Festival

Send us your titles!

In support of our plan to have a book exhibit at Inkshed 24, we are inviting all of you to send us publication information for any new (say, in the last four or five years) books that you have published: academic, instructional (i.e., textbooks), or others. We would like to display books by Inkshedders (and others) at the conference. We would also welcome suggestions you have for books written by others that will add to the display.

Please email us at hgraves@rogers.com or rgraves3@uwo.ca.