EVENTS
Saturday May 5, 2007 Scarfe 204 at 9am
Dreaming by the Book:
Reader’s Diary as Pedagogical
Text and Investigative Practice
Rishma Dunlop, York University
Visiting Scholar, Poet-in-Residence,
Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry
The girl reads her picture books.
A child’s garden
of verses.
The alphabet sifts into her ribcage
opens
her to stars, grass, abcs
whole sentences whispering dark.
Rishma
Dunlop, “Primer”
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.
Mark
Strand, “Eating
Poetry”
This presentation takes the form of a Reader’s Diary, using experimental writing practices that can be modeled and used by teachers in classrooms. The Reader’s Diary becomes autobiography, a memoir in books, a practice of writing that provides starting points for teachers across disciplines to begin by engaging with their own memories and responses to literature, evoking a vivacity of imagination that they can introduce in their own classrooms and research through reading and writing practices. The Reader’s Diary is a flexible, hybrid genre of inquiry into the cultural work of literature that invites communities of practice to engage in innovative research forms. The author uses collagist, post-structuralist techniques of intergeneric writings, moving back and forth between fragments of memory, visual images, poems, theoretical considerations of literary, aesthetic, cultural studies, and teacher education, while focusing on the effect of reading on the shaping of schooled, gendered, and cultural identity. Research is envisioned as creative, artistic, and compassionate practice. The artistic forms engaged in the author’s research are envisioned as theorizing practices, practices of thinking, and commitments to ideological and discursive practices that offer information, conviction, and knowledge.
A copy of the author’s paper with color images will be available for distribution as well as photocopies of additional publications on educational research and practice.
Notes: A brief interactive writing component with the audience is planned for the beginning of this session. The session is not limited in interest to English Education and literacy scholars; techniques are suitable for educators and researchers across all disciplines.
Wednesday June 6, 2007 6:30 pm
Seeing Red, Hearing Red
Film Screening and Poetry Reading
with Mitra Sen and Rishma Dunlop
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto
Explore the meanings and metaphors of the colour red in South Asian art and culture through a screening of the family film just a little red dOt by award-winning filmmaker and educator Mitra Sen, and a reading of poetry from Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets and other works by Dr. Rishma Dunlop, poet, writer and professor at York University.
Members $8, Non-members $10, Full-time students Pay-What-You-Can.
Please arrive early, seating is limited.
Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue (St. Patrick subway)
Toronto, ON M5G 2H5
t. 416-599-5321
f. 416-599-2911