For your convenience, you may access (Adobe PDF format) an abbreviated schedule and a printable campus map by clicking on their names. An interactive campus map is also available. For parking information, please consult the University's Parking Lot Map.
In addition, please see these related events for more opportunities to engage with writing in our community.
Wednesday 4/15 | Thursday 4/16 | Friday 4/17 | Saturday 4/18 | Ongoing Exhibits
All events are free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Workshop for Writing Faculty
Cathy Birkenstein-Graff & Gerald Graff
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Clark 209
Often without realizing it, experienced writers have come to
master certain rhetorical conventions or "moves" that underlie all
persuasive writing. In this workshop, Cathy Birkenstein-Graff and Gerald Graff suggest that these conventional moves are so commonly made that they
can be represented in basic templates: fill-in-the-blank grids or
scaffoldings that can be given directly to students to enable them to make
these sophisticated moves in their own writing right away. The basic
template that Cathy and Gerald will focus on is what, in their recent
textbook, they call the "They Say/I Say" move, which helps students
engage the arguments of others ("they say") in a way that sets the
stage for their own ideas ("I say").
Pizza lunch will be served. This event has been co-sponsored by the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) and by the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship (SAGES) Program.
Writing Week Keynote Lecture
Gerald Graff, Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and
2008 President of the Modern Language Association
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Dampeer Room, Kelvin Smith Library
This talk will expand on the case Graff made in his 2003 book, Clueless in Academe, for why argument (and persuasive writing generally) needs to become the organizing principle of all school and college curricula.
Refreshments will be served. This event has been co-sponsored by the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship (SAGES) Program.
Wain Journalism Series Lecture
Suzanne Braun Levine
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., 309 Clark Hall
Suzanne Braun Levine is the author of "Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood," and other works of non-fiction. She was the founding editor of "Ms."magazine, and editor of "The Columbia Journalism Review." She produced the Peabody-Award-winning documentary, "She's Nobody's Baby: A History of Women in the Twentieth Century."
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Guilford House Parlor (1st Floor)
This event features Undergraduate and Graduate students reading and performing from their original work. Light refreshments will be served.
Writing Week Keynote Lecture
Anne Curzan, Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Wolstein Research Building Auditorium
This talk addresses various sources of language authority and explores what can happen in any classroom when we open up “the rules” of English for serious examination.
Directions & parking information for the Wolstein Research Building
Writing Week Welcome & Awards Reception
6:00 p.m. -7:30 p.m., Wolstein Research Building Atrium
Please join us in celebrating the writing accomplishments of Case Western Reserve students, faculty, alumni, and community members. Awards for poetry, fiction, expository writing, disciplinary writing instruction, and writing consulting will be presented. Refreshments will be served.
Directions & parking information for the Wolstein Research Building
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Friday, April 17, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Thwing Student Center
The Celebration of Student Writing is a university-wide showcase of student writing projects, held in conjunction with the Intersections symposium and poster session. The Celebration encourages students to re-present and display their research and writing in formats other than word-processed letters and lines on the printed page.
This event is being presented in conjunction with the Intersections: SOURCE Undergraduate Symposium and Poster Session.
Medical Rhetoric Workshop
Susan Wells
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Guilford House Parlor (1st Floor)
Please note: as of 4/14/09, this workshop is full. If you've already received confirmation (and the reading for discussion), your spot has been reserved. We're sorrry for the inconvenience, but we hope you will join us for Prof. Wells' talk at 5:00 p.m.
This interactive discussion based on a chapter of Wells' forthcoming book, Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writing (Stanford, 2010), is designed for faculty and students interested in writing studies, gender studies, history, communication, and science & technology studies. Lunch will be provided.
Writing Resource Center Open House
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., 104 Bellflower Hall
Please join the Writing Resource Center Consultants and Case Western Reserve students for an afternoon of writing-themed entertainment. Refreshments will be served.
The Edward S. & Melinda Melton Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines
Susan Wells, Professor of English, Temple University
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Powell Room, Allen Memorial Medical Library
This talk explores the surprising ways in which women medical students found dissection attractive. Their practices suggest the need for revision of current understandings of the objectifying scientific gaze.
Refreshments will be served. This event has been co-sponsored by the Dittrick Medical History Center.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
This event features readings by Case Faculty and Alumni: Thrity Umrigar, Shelley Costa, Sean Santa, Gina Ventre, and Mary Grimm. Refreshments will be served.
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Ongoing Exhibits
Kelvin Smith Library: "Celebrating Writing Week 2009"
Kelvin Smith Library Lobby, April 2009
This display - located in three exhibit cases in the main lobby of Kelvin Smith Lobby - will be open throughout Writing Week.
KSL Special Collections Reading Room, Second Floor, April 14-17, 2009
A display of rare texts from Case Western Reserve's Special Collections, located in the Special Collections Reading Room (adjacent to the Dampeer Room, 2nd Floor, Kelvin Smith Library). The Reading Room is open: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. For additional information, please call (216) 368-2993.
Kelvin Smith Library: Online Podcast Series
Hosted by Kelvin Smith Librarian William Claspy, these interviews shed light on recent Case Western Reserve Faculty publications. Recent posts include conversations with: Christine Cano, Daniel Goldmark, Sarah Gridley, Ted Gup, Kurt Koenigsberger, Robert Spadoni, and Thrity Umrigar.
Dittrick Medical History Center
From the Archives: Women's Medical Theses
Allen Memorial Medical Library, Lowman Room, April 2009
This display - located in two glass cases - features nineteenth-century women's medical theses and other artifacts from the Dittrick Medical History Center's collection.
Dittrick Medical History Center, Online Exhibit
This exhibit is based upon Linda Lehmann Goldstein's 1990 Case Western Reserve University PhD thesis. The online exhibit highlights women graduates of Cleveland Medical College, 1852-1856.
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