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Any Colorado-local (or Colorado-Adjacent folks): please join us!<\/p>\n
The Colorado State University Department of English is pleased to announce the upcoming speaker series: “The Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life.” Throughout the spring semester the department will host nationally recognized literacies-based researchers and educators to discuss how literacy and youth civic participation intersect from varying, interdisciplinary perspectives. I’m thrilled to be able to put this event together with some of the most powerful scholars doing necessary literacies research.<\/p>\n
The speakers will be presenting their work and engaging in dialogue from 5:30-6:30, followed by a brief reception. These events are free<\/strong> and open to the public. All of the speakers will be presenting at the CSU campus in Clark A 205<\/a>.<\/p>\n The speakers and dates for this series are as follows:<\/p>\n Buffy’s talk next Tuesday is going to be awesome! Here’s the title and description:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
Buffy Hamilton – 2\/11 – Metanarratives of Literacy Practices: \u00a0Libraries as Sponsors of Literacies<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHow might libraries deconstruct the ideas and power relations that influence the ways they reinforce and distribute specific literacies and literacy practices to better understand their role as sponsors of literacy in their communities in a more nuanced and robust way? \u00a0By using Deborah Brandt’s concept of sponsors of literacy, libraries can situate and contextualize their work to frame their work as co-learners in a participatory community of learning who can collaboratively construct the possibilities of print, digital, information, and new literacies \u2013 rather than being a paternalistic sponsor that deliberately and\/or unintentionally marginalizes the experiences and literacy histories of the people libraries serve.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBuffy\u2019s an awesome speaker and I hope you will be able to join us for the first of five great events this semester.\u00a0If you have any additional questions please email me. Thank you, I look forward to welcoming you at CSU!<\/span><\/div>\nTell people this is awesome:<\/h3>