1pm UK time

Teams link

Lancaster Literacy Research Centre (affiliate member)

In this presentation, I discuss an approach to Lifespan Writing Research I developed through longitudinal literacy ethnography on social movements in Rio de Janeiro (Duncan 2021). Although that work covered a range of protest literacies over a ten year period (2006-2016), in this talk I focus on arts-activist literacies across the lifespan of one person and a small scale arts movement that she founded: Ítala Isis (1977-) and the (in)Visible Cities Movement (2009-2015). Whilst short form written genres are commonplace in arts practices (e.g., via graffiti in street art and textual anchorage in visual arts generally), little has been said in Literacy Studies about the development and interrelations of such writing across the lifespan of artist practitioners and social movements. How for example might memories of childhood literacy events shape the forms and themes of protest inscriptions? How do less obvious examples of inscription practices inform arts-activism, such as stencil, sewing, and xylography? Moreover, in what ways have these arts practices and trajectories of texts become forms of activism and resistance in Brazilian socio-political settings? I will present data on these and related themes. A book and video which I was involved in producing that documents a 30 year retrospective of the work of Ítala Isis will be made available.

LRC 25 II Bibliography V

1pm UK time

Teams link

University of Sheffield

My curiosity about literacy’s role in the criminal justice system was sparked when my son started school and began learning to read. This curiosity shaped my PhD research project.  The study partnered with a regional Probation Service to explore how probation practitioners consider and respond to literacy needs when delivering criminal justice services.  Literacy is a topic rarely discussed in criminal justice research.  Yet, it is hard to understand criminology’s absence when “reading and writing are central to almost every stage of the [criminal justice] process” (UserVoice, 2021, p. 12).

1pm UK time

Hybrid:

B89 County South, or Teams link here

Profesora Asociada / Associate Professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

This presentation shares work in progress from a book project on writing and social justice in higher education. Grounded in empirical data from Chilean university students and Fraser’s (2009) model of social justice, the chapter argues that true inclusion in higher education requires structural change in how writing is taught. I will discuss how redistribution, recognition, and representation can inform pedagogical practices that move beyond deficit/remediation, expand students’ agency, and challenge normative assumptions about academic writing in increasingly diverse university contexts.

1pm UK time

Hybrid meeting

B89 County South, or Teams link here

Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics & Discourse Analysis

University of Western Macedonia

Greece

 In this talk, I look at how a Finnish music trio and its audience managed to balance locality and globality during a Christmas concert streamed through Facebook Live amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic led to the shift of Finland’s widely attended Christmas concerts, typically held in churches and other venues, to an online format, where musicians were now not just addressing local, Finnish-speaking listeners but a global audience. Specifically, I examine how both the musicians and the audience constructed this Christmas-at-home concert as a distinctly translocal event through adopting various multilingual practices, viewed here as a subset of literacy practices, that enabled them to experience local and global senses of identity and community. Using an online ethnographic perspective, which combines discourse-centred online ethnography with analytic autoethnography, I discuss transcripts of the musicians’ spoken discourse, written comments from the audience in Facebook Live’s chat, and excerpts from an interview with one of the musicians.  The analysis indicates the translocality of digital communication; the translocality of Finnish culture; and the translocality of the Christmas and the Christmas-at-home experience in pandemic times.