Schedule
Friday, April 14
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6:30 p.m.; 400 Plaster Student Union, Union Club (4th floor) |
Visiting Author Reading Buki Papillon, Maya Angelou Prize winning author, reads from her work. |
Monday, April 17
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10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.; Second Floor Landing of Siceluff Hall |
Book Sale Fundraiser for Books 2 Keep |
3:00 - 5:00 p.m; Ozarks Room, Meyer Library 302 |
Panel, Book Launch, and Tour of the Archives "On Robert Wallace, Orbit of Meter, and the Wallace Collection," featuring Christine Wallace, James Baldwin, and Tracie Gieselman France. Reception to follow. |
Tuesday, April 18
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9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.; Glass Hall, Room 486
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Workplace Writing Faculty Workshop 9:30 a.m.: Sign-in and Continental Breakfast 9:45 a.m.: Welcome 10:00 a.m., Session One. Bring your laptop! "Leveraging Skills-Based Microcredentialling to Enhance Student Learning," Tim Ponce, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington. 11:30 a.m.: Lunch 1:00 p.m.: Session Two. Bring your laptop! "Am I Going to be Replaced by AI?: Natural Language Processing Models in the Technical Communication Classroom," Amy Hodges, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington
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Wednesday, April 19
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8:30 a.m. - 3:30p.m.; Glass Hall, Room 486
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Workplace Writing Student Conference 8:30 a.m.: Check-in and Continental Breakfast 9:15 a.m.: Dr. Rhonda Stanton, "What TPW Is, Getting the Job, and Negotiating Salary." 10:25 a.m.: Alumni Panel, alumni present about their current jobs, experiences gaining employment, how the TPW program prepared them, and a day-in-the-life on the job. 11:30 a.m.: Nick Altrup, 417 Marketing, "Future-Proofing Your Career: Adapting Skills for Success in an AI-Driven World." 12:30 p.m. Lunch on your own 1:30 p.m.: Dr. Sam Dragga (via Zoom), Dr. Amy Hodges, and Dr. Leslie Seawright, "Is that Ethical? How Things Have Changed and How They Are Still the Same." 2:45 p.m.: Sam Mathews, Deloitte, Manager, Data Information Architecture (Information Architect), "Demystifying DITA."
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Thursday, April 20
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9:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.; Glass Hall 486 |
Undergraduate Literature Conference 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.: Gender Issues and Sexuality in Popular Culture Four undergraduate student panelists will present. 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Snack and Chat Join us for informal discussion of English Department programs and organizations! 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.: Race in American Literary and Intellectual History Three undergraduate student panelists will present. 2:00 - 3:15 p.m.: Gender and Sexuality in American Literature Three undergraduate student panelists will present. 3:30 - 4:45 p.m.: Medieval and Early Modern British Literature Three undergraduate student panelists will present |
Friday, April 21
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9:05 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.; Glass Hall 486 |
Undergraduate Literature Conference 9:05 - 9:55 a.m.: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Fictions Three undergraduate student panelists will present. 10:10 - 11:00p.m.: Gender, Sexuality, and History Four undergraduate student panelists will present. 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.: Snack and Chat Join us for informal discussion of English Department programs and organizations! 12:20 - 1:10 p.m.: Representing Young Adults Three undergraduate student panelists will present. 1:25 - 2:15 p.m.: Graphic Narrative Three undergraduate student panelists will present. |
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.; Plaster Student Union 400, Union Club (4th floor) | Sigma Tau Delta and English Department Awards Reception |
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.; Plaster Student Union 400, Union Club (4th floor) |
English Faculty Reading Marcus Cafagna reads selections from his work, All the Rage in the Afterlife This Season |