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Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies
Friday, January 26, 11:30 a.m.
George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.
Sponsored by the Literacy Studies Working Group
Literacy and Representations of Trauma with Alana Kumbier and Wendy Wolters Hinshaw
Alana Kumbier (Department of Comparative Studies) will present her preliminary analysis of a set of "files" from the Atlas Group Archive. She examines how the Atlas Group uses the form of the archival artifact (and its attendant practices: descriptive, organizational, interpretive, and representational) to produce knowledge about the contemporary history of Lebanon. Kumbier is interested in how the Atlas Group uses a familiar form (the archival artifact) to investigate the experiences of subjects during the Lebanese Civil War.
Wendy Wolters Hinshaw (Department of English) is currently working with a study of art programs directed by a local foundation, ArtSafe, that are offered to youth offenders in youth and adult prisons in central Ohio. Her project involves an analysis of the critical literacies that the prisoners/artists develop and express through the rhetorical choices they make in their written and visual art about themselves and their relationships to the prison institutions in which they live.
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities at the George Wells Knight House 104 E. 15th Avenue. Lunch is provided. For more information, contact Kate White at white.1142@osu.edu.
