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Sheffield Literacies and Language Conference: Forging Hopeful Literacies
Sheffield Literacies Conference 16th-17th June
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE SHEFFIELD LITERACIES CONFERENCE 2023
Forging Hopeful Literacies
Friday June 16th – Saturday June 17th, 2023
For over a decade, the University of Sheffield hosted an international literacies conference.
After an unforgettable pandemic, we are returning to the tradition this June with the theme of Forging Hopeful Literacies, in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University.
Sheffield is a city of makers and forgers, a city strongly linked with material culture of an industrial past. As a conference theme, we play on this reputation and perspectives from the past, present, and future of craft, material ways of knowing and doing, and how craft might inform our understandings of literacies, language, and communication.
The hopeful dimension of the conference invites a look ahead at literacies destinations: where we are and where we might like to be as a literacy community? Attending to the moment and speculating on the future, what kinds of literacies can we possibly hope for to meet tomorrow’s communicational demands and desires? There is an openness to this call because hopeful literacies must by their very nature be expansive and inclusive of different types of research in a wide range of contexts.
The conference offers keynote talks that explore hopeful methods, hopeful innovations, disruptive hopes, and theories that invite hope. With interactive workshops that leverage hope as a proposition for thinking, being, and imagining differently, and panels that give us small islands of hope taken together, this promises to be an unforgettable event.
Taking seriously the concept of hopeful literacies, we invite international researchers to submit 250-word abstracts of papers on a wide range of topics, theories, approaches, and provocations. This call for papers offers a space for you to share research, theory, and methods and come together to forge thoughts and exchange ideas on hopeful literacies destinations.
PROGRAMME
Conference Opening: Dr. Roberta Taylor, Dr. Karen Daniels & Professor Jennifer Rowsell
8:30 – 9 AM – Coffee and pastries
9 AM – 10:30 AM
Opening Panel: What are ‘Hopeful Literacies’?
Professor Kate Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University (Chair)
Panel: Dr. Fiona Scott (University of Sheffield), Dr. Chris Bailey (Sheffield Hallam University), Deborah Bullivant (Grimm & Co, UK), Dr. Jessica Bradley (University of Sheffield), and Professor Abigail Hackett (Manchester Metropolitan University)
11 AM – Noon – Parallel Sessions
Noon – 1 PM LUNCH
Keynote #1: Professor Michael Dezuanni, Queensland University of Technology
2 PM – 2:30 PM Coffee Break
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Arts & Research-Creation Time
Steve Pool, Manchester Metropolitan University and Harriet Hand, University of Bristol & Mark Shillitoe, Delft International School
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Keynote #2: (Dr. Jennifer Farrar, University of Glasgow)
CONFERENCE DINNER: Lokanta
Saturday June 17th
9 AM – Coffee and Pastries
9:30 – 10:30 AM
Keynote #3: Dr. Khawla Badwan, Manchester Metropolitan University
10:30 – 11:30 – Parallel Sessions
11:30 – 12:30 – Graduate Student Presentations with Respondent: Dr. Cheryl McLean, Rutgers Graduate School of Education
LUNCH (12:30-1:30)
Afternoon: Digital-Material Sensorium with Dr. Hugh Escott, Sheffield Hallam University
Conference Details:
You do not have to present, you can come and take part in presentations, interactive workshops, research creation events, and conversations with friend and colleagues.
Fees for PGR students are 25 pounds and for everyone else 50 pounds. The fees include breakfasts, lunches, and the Friday evening dinner (food only). In addition, we have reserved a number of rooms at the Rutland Hotel, close to the conference venue, for those delegates who require accommodation.
April 21st, 2023: 250-word abstracts submitted to Prof Jennifer Rowsell: J.Rowsell@sheffield.ac.uk
April 21st, 2023: 500-word abstracts on PhD research for the USheff-SHU Literacies PhD Award to be given at a special PGR Research Session submitted to Dr. Roberta Taylor: r.e.taylor@shu.ac.uk
May 5th, 2023: Notification of Abstract Decisions