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1st ATHENS INTERNATIONAL WRITING CENTERS CONFERENCE
"Revisioning Tomorrow’s Writing Center: Roles, Practices, Audiences"
November 9-10, 2007
Venue: Hellenic American University Main Conference Hall (Auditorium),
22 Massalias Str., Athens, Greece
Friday, 9 November 2007 8:15-9:00 Registration |
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09:00-09:30 |
Opening Session Welcome speech and opening remarks by the Provost of the Hellenic American University Dr. Thomas Rocco |
09:30-10:30 |
Keynote Session Guest Speaker: Don Millard - Director, Academy of Electronic Media, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Using Technology to Increase Interactivity in Education |
10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
Morning Session: The WRC as a Tutoring Environment |
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11:00-11:40 |
Vassiliki Kourbani - Academic Coordinator, Writing Center, Hellenic American University, Greece, Fotini Papantoniou - Academic Assistant, Writing Center, Hellenic American University, Greece |
11:40-12:10 |
Cheryl Glenn - Professor of English, Co-director, Center for Civic Engagement and Democratic Deliberation, Pennsylvania State University, USA Mobilizing New Realms of Writing: Opportunities in the Writing Center |
12:10-12:40 |
Ann Mott - Director, American University of Paris Writing Lab, France |
12:40-13:20 |
Joseph J. Essid - Director, UR Writing Center, University of Richmond, USA The Bosporus Project: Collaborating, not Prescribing, Writing Center Practice |
13:30-14:30 |
Snack |
Afternoon Session: The WRC as a Classroom Environment |
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14:30-15:10 |
Dimitris Tolias - Associate Director, Center for Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, Hellenic American Union, Greece, Yiannis Petropoulos - Director, Writing Program, Hellenic American University, Greece |
15:10-15:50 |
Steven Youra - Director, Hixon Writing Center, California Institute of Technology, USA Writing Centers as Classroom Environments / Classroom Environments as Centers of Writing |
15:50-16:30 |
Rebecca Rickly - Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, USA |
Saturday, 10 November 2007 |
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Morning Session: WRC: Administration-Viability-Social Outreach |
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09:00-09:40 |
Gerd Bräuer - Writing Center, University of Education, Freiburg (Germany), EWCA Chair (2006-08), Germany |
09:40-10:20 |
Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams - Co-ordinator, Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University, England Maximising the Potential of Your Writing Center's Local Context |
10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
11:00-11:40 |
Jon Olson - Director, Center for Excellence in Writing, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
11:40-12:20 |
Joan Mullin - Professor, Head, Writing across the Curriculum Initiative, University of Texas at Austin, USA |
12:20-13:00 |
Dilek Tokay - Center for Individual and Academic Development (Writing Center), Sabanci University, Turkey |
13:00-13:30 |
Kemal Inan - Professor and Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Sabance University, Turkey How do Engineers See Writing Centers? Do they Have a Role in their Viability and Social Outreach? |
13:30 |
END OF CONFERENCE |