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Academic year 2024-25. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Current Organiser:<\/strong> Karin Tusting k.tusting@lancaster.ac.uk<\/p>\n

Hello and welcome back to the Literacy Research Centre Discussion Group. Please see below for the timetable for upcoming talks. Updates will be circulated via the LRDG mailing list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
28th February 2025<\/p>\n

1pm UK time<\/p>\n

Teams link<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n

Jamie Duncan<\/p>\n

Lancaster Literacy Research Centre (affiliate member)<\/td>\n

Arts-activist literacies across a lifespan: An ethnographic biography of \u00cdtala Isis and the (in)Visible Cities Movement in Rio de Janeiro<\/strong><\/p>\n

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: \u00cdtala 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 \u00cdtala Isis will be made available.<\/p>\n

For more information see the links below:<\/p>\n

Arts-activist literacies across a lifespan: An ethnographic biography of \u00cdtala Isis and the (in)Visible Cities Movement in Rio de Janeiro<\/p>\n

https:\/\/wpull.org\/product\/wp337-arts-activist-literacies-across-a-lifespan-an-ethnographic-biography-of-itala-isis-and-the-invisible-cities-movement-in-rio-de-janeiro\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The City Marks in\u00a0Mar\u00e9\u00a0short film<\/p>\n

https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1GZjr2FBQ-mgD2GKnPrOiMiYS4OOFJsv_\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n

“\u00cdtala Isis: 30 anos de Rio e Rua” expo-occupation art catalogue<\/p>\n

https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1_JhnZzAtxGfTRLHCRUEGV_6YKOA6sdUC\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n

“\u00cdtala Isis: 30 anos de Rio e Rua”\u00a0expo-occupation short film<\/p>\n

https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1OsL0R3iOejCY-9WgwodTKgIuvGXeKHPk\/view?usp=drivesdk<\/a><\/p>\n

LRC 25 II Bibliography V<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

9th May 2025<\/p>\n

1pm UK time<\/p>\n

Teams link<\/a><\/u><\/td>\n

Victoria Barritt<\/p>\n

University of Sheffield<\/p>\n

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What role does literacy play in criminal justice? \u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

My curiosity about literacy’s role in the criminal justice system was sparked\u00a0when my son started school and began learning to read. This curiosity shaped my PhD research project. \u00a0The study partnered with a regional Probation Service to explore\u00a0how probation practitioners consider and respond to literacy needs when delivering criminal justice services. \u00a0Literacy is a topic rarely discussed in criminal justice research.\u00a0\u00a0Yet, it is hard to understand criminology\u2019s absence when \u201creading and writing are central to almost every stage of the [criminal justice] process\u201d\u00a0(UserVoice, 2021, p. 12)<\/span>.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

30th May 2025<\/p>\n

1pm UK time<\/p>\n

Hybrid:<\/p>\n

B89 County South, or Teams link here<\/a><\/td>\n

Natalia Alejandra \u00c1vila Reyes<\/p>\n

Profesora Asociada \/ Associate Professor<\/p>\n

Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile<\/td>\n

Social Justice and the Teaching of Writing: Connecting the dots<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019s (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\u2019 agency, and challenge normative assumptions about academic writing in increasingly diverse university contexts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

6th June 2025<\/p>\n

1pm UK time<\/p>\n

Hybrid meeting<\/p>\n

B89 County South, or Teams link here<\/a><\/td>\n

Mariza Georgalou<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics & Discourse Analysis<\/p>\n

University of Western Macedonia<\/p>\n

Greece<\/p>\n

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\u2018Hyv\u00e4\u00e4 Joulua kaikille, Merry Xmas everyone, Feliz Navidad!\u2019: Translocal multilingual practices in a Christmas Facebook Live concert during COVID-19<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>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\u2019s 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\u2019 spoken discourse, written comments from the audience in Facebook Live\u2019s chat, and excerpts from an interview with one of the musicians. \u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n

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Previous year’s discussion group schedules<\/p>\n

2023-24<\/a><\/p>\n

2022-23<\/a><\/p>\n

2021-22<\/a><\/p>\n

2020-21<\/a><\/p>\n

2019-20<\/a><\/p>\n

2018-19<\/a><\/p>\n

2017-18<\/a><\/p>\n

2016-17<\/a><\/p>\n

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