/news-archive/tag/southern-regional-composition-conference/ UA 糖心视频logo Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:59:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2016/02/23/ualr-hosts-third-southern-regional-composition-conference/ Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:59:17 +0000 /news/?p=63546 ... UALR hosts third Southern Regional Composition Conference]]> The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at 糖心视频logo, in partnership with the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, is hosting the third annual Southern Regional Composition Conference on the theory, practice, and pedagogy of composition on March 14. The conference鈥檚 keynote address is open to the general public. A teachers鈥� workshop is open to all UALR faculty and staff. If participants wish to attend additional conference panels, registration and payment may be made here. The keynote address and teachers鈥� workshop will be given by , associate professor at the , at 1 p.m. in Donaghey Student Center (DSC) Ledbetter Hall. The teaching workshop will begin at 3:30 p.m. in DSC Room 205G. Young has presented to audiences around the world about his educational and sociolinguistic concept of 鈥渃ode-meshing,鈥� African American English, intercultural communication, performances of masculinity, and representations of race in art, film, and literature. 聽 This year鈥檚 featured theme is on the language, race, gender and sexuality, and performance in writing instruction at the college and secondary level. The majority of sessions will focus on teaching composition and awareness of diversity through language. 鈥淎s composition teachers, we are committed to helping students learn to perform different identities through the use of language and other mediums of discourse,鈥� said Dr. Brian Ray, an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. The conference is sponsored by UALR鈥檚 Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the Chancellor鈥檚 Diversity Council, the at the University of Memphis, Pearson, Cengage, Bedford/Macmillan, and Norton. For more information, visit the UALR Rhetoric and Writing conference website.]]>