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2023 Conference DetailsCheck out the Call for Proposals On-Time Registration Costs
Late Registration CostsRegistration after Jan 11 will be considered late and will incur additional fees. Registration will remain open until and during the conference.
Note: All consultants from a center that has an active institutional SWCA membership can register at the member price if you have the registration code. Ask your director for the code and they can provide it, or they can contact swca.dcd@gmail.com to get it. HotelThe conference is being held in Memphis, Tennessee, at the Guesthouse at Graceland.
Make Guesthouse Reservations at Conference Rate ALternate HotelsIf the conference hotel rooms are full, you might consider the following hotels, or use this Google Maps search for hotels near the Guest House: La Quinta Inn and Suites by Wyndham Memphis Airport
Courtyard by Marriott Memphis Airport
Holiday Inn Express and Suites Memphis Airport
Quality Inn Airport I-240
TransportationAirport Shuttle. The Guesthouse offers a free shuttle to the hotel. Visit here for details on how to secure the shuttle after you have landed No advanced reservations are required. Once the Guesthouse receives your shuttle request, give the driver 15-25 minutes to arrive. Enter the blue shuttle with an image of Elvis on the side of the bus. You can find out other information about Memphis transportation at this site. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind:
This site details Memphis transportation as it relates to our more popular attractions. The online schedule is available at http://swca2023.com Thursday, Feb. 9
Friday, Feb. 10
Saturday, Feb. 11
TITLE: “whose grammar are you hoping I’m teaching?”: Tools of Linguistic Justice and How We Can Use Them, An OfferingSPEAKER: Tawny LeBouef Tullia, Ph.D.ABSTRACT: What rules do you want us to use as we draft and revise here? What tone are you using in this text? Is it playful? Is it serious? Must it be? Who is your audience and how do you want to address them? Questions that do not assume an answer or even a list of possible answers. Because I do not know the answer. Simple. Also complex. These questions are targeted toward a foundation of white supremacist heteronormative linguistic practices and from linguistic assumptions, a violence carried by normalized rules that assume one rule of a language. bell hooks wrote, “Our visions of tomorrow are most vital when they emerge from the concrete circumstances of change we are experiencing right now.” During this address, I will consider the separate parts of a grammar and will apply a practice of radical interconnectedness that helps us to crack those assumptions open and then to develop linguistic justice in various forms with our students, our clients, writers, our colleagues, and with ourselves. BIO: Dr. Tawny LeBouef Tullia (she/her/hers) currently serves as the Dean for the Rosa Deal School of Arts at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee. Previous to that appointment, Tullia served as the Writing Program Administrator. In that role, she collaborated with colleagues to re-write and re-vision what a First-year Writing Program needed to be to serve the students entering their educations at CBU. That Program now includes courses that better support the needs of new-to-university writers, multi-lingual learners, and includes a choice-based and multiple measures placement protocol. Tullia teaches courses on rhetoric, gender, and race; rhetorical theory; and organizes application courses around community-engaged learning. Tullia’s research focuses on sport and rhetoric at the intersections of race and gender, as well as building community in classroom and professional spaces, using antiracist practices and a commitment toward Beloved Community. Dr. Tullia has published work on the importance of authenticity and building community in the classroom. That work appears in the volume On Teacher Neutrality: Politics, Praxis, Performativity, published by Utah State University Press. The chapter titled “Turning Resistances into Engagement” was written collaboratively with Dr. Erika Johnson. Technology InformationBreakout rooms (except ones used for SIGs) are equipped with projection monitors and have HDMI connections. If you are a Mac user, be sure to bring an HDMI adapter. Individual speakers presenting on slides may want to bring a flash drive to access material so you and your fellow presenters have the option of using a single laptop for your session. Local Points of InterestClick on the map icons or use the links below to view information about some of the conference staff's favorite Memphis locations. Current Memphis Weather
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