1st Athens International Writing Centers Conference
"Revisioning Tomorrow’s Writing Center: Roles, Practices, Audiences"

Keynote Session

Guest Speaker: Don Millard - Director, Academy of Electronic Media, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Using Technology to Increase Interactivity in Education

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Vassiliki Kourbani - Academic Coordinator, Writing Center, Hellenic American University, Greece, Fotini Papantoniou - Academic Assistant, Writing Center, Hellenic American University, Greece

Tutoring in a Technologically Enhanced Environment: the Hellenic American University Writing Center Experience

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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

Ann Mott - Director, American University of Paris Writing Lab, France

What we Talk about when we Talk About Writing

Joseph J. Essid - Director, UR Writing Center, University of Richmond, USA

The Bosporus Project: Collaborating, not Prescribing, Writing Center Practice

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Dimitris Tolias - Associate Director, Center for Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, Hellenic American Union, Greece, Yiannis Petropoulos - Director, Writing Program, Hellenic American University, Greece

The Use of the Writing Center as a Classroom Environment: the Case of the Writing Center at the Hellenic American University

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Steven Youra - Director, Hixon Writing Center, California Institute of Technology, USA

Writing Centers as Classroom Environments / Classroom Environments as Centers of Writing

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Rebecca Rickly - Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, USA

Decentralization, Hybrid Instruction, and Distributed Grading: How Writing Centers and First Year Composition Must Grow Together

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Gerd Bräuer - Writing Center, University of Education, Freiburg (Germany), EWCA Chair (2006-08), Germany

Extending Writing Center Work to the Community: Writing and Reading Support for Asylum Seekers in the City of Leipzig

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Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams - Co-ordinator, Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University, England

Maximising the Potential of Your Writing Center's Local Context

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Jon Olson - Director, Center for Excellence in Writing, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Writing Centers and Social Outreach

Joan Mullin - Professor, Head, Writing across the Curriculum Initiative, University of Texas at Austin, USA

The Administration-Tutorial Connection: Fostering Writing Center Environments With(in) our Communities

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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?

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