Please join us for the 20th Annual Black Women's Conference honoring bell hooks

Finding Our Place: A Conference in Honor of the Work and Writings
of bell hooks

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20th Annual Black Women’s Conference: April 18-19, 2014

This year is the 20^th convening of the Annual Black Women’s Conference.  In its history, there are few subjects of interest and important to the lives of Black women the conference has not explored.  As we celebrate this important year of the conference, we turn our attention to the work of a native daughter of Kentucky and preeminent feminist and intellectual, bell hooks.  Over the course of her career, hooks has been a leading thinker on the complexity of the positions of black women in American society and politics.  hooks continues to challenge  us with her current work to be both creative and thoughtful about understanding and making our place. Join us in celebrating the work of this important scholar and two decades of gathering black women in community. - more info: https://aaas.as.uky.edu/black-womens-conference

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Are You Thinking about Studying Abroad???

Greetings, Class Community.

Are you considering a study abroad experience?

Yours truly, 

Dr. Hill

Talks about the Intersections between Technology and Creativity

Greetings, Class Community.

I have posted the videos we reviewed in class along with some we did not have a chance to view together.

View and/or review the videos. They may give you pointers for your presentations that begin next week.

Book Trailer Genre, Remix Theory, and YouTube Technology

Greetings, Class Community.

Below you will find a 'book trailer'.  This new genre, 'book trailer', is clearly a modification of the 'movie trailer'. In kind, the genre of the 'book trailer' is a YouTube medium.  

Please watch the book trailer and consider what we have discussed about the intersections of remix theory and creative writing. Also consider the popularity of YouTube and the associated technologies on the creation of this genre.

Do you think that a 'book trailer' is a new genre or a modification of previous promotional genres related to the marketing of books and/or information? How are techniques associated with scrapbooking and remix evident? 

Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is releasing a new book on Black Girlhood Studies entitled Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood.  This is an ideal book for any of you that might be interested in the intersections of gender studies, education, creativity and African AmericanStudies.

Student Contribution (Elizabeth Angell) - Memory Kart Events

Greetings, Class Community.


Thank you for adding this information Elizabeth Angell.   I will be sure to spread the word about Memory Kart.


This community will also have different NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, events.  If you would like more information, email or chat with Elizabeth.

Dr. Hill

Student Contribution (Ashly Pennington) - Poet Misspells 'Father'

Greetings, Class Community.

I would like to begin by thank you Ashly Pennington for sharing this interactive spoken word poem by Marshall Davis with us.  This example is taken from an article entitled "Video: Poet 'misspells' the word 'father' in a spelling bee & why" by Anne Sewell.

In addition to admiring the poem for its literary complexities, consider the ways the poem is remixed and/or enhanced by new technologies.

Enjoy!

Dr. Hill

Check out Digital Journal  -  http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/356136

Check out Marshall Davis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFX2LrNE3VI 

Virtual Seminars and Interviews on Poetry and African American Literature

Please join the Project onthe History of Black Writing for a virtual seminar (webinar) with poet NikkiGiovanni on Wednesday, October 16th, 2013 at 10AM CST. Moderator will be Professor Opal Moore (Spelman College).  Click on the link for information on how to join the virtual seminar:

http://www.dontdeny.dept.ku.edu/public/virtual-seminars.shtml

This event is the first in a series of virtual seminars to be held this fall as follow-up to the summer's NEH Institute  "Don't Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching AfricanAmerican Literature."

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend ALL of the upcoming virtual seminars:

NikkiGiovanni

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
11 AM EST 

C. LeighMcInnis

Tuesday, October 22, 2013
1 PM EST 

IshmaelReed

Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
3 PM

BrendaMarie Osbey

Friday, November 15th, 2013
5 PM EST 

TerranceHayes

Tuesday, November 26, 2013
2 PM EST 

NatashaTrethewey

December 2013, Date and Time TBA

Adventures in Twitter Fiction

Greetings, Class Community. 

I thought you might enjoy this TED video about twitter fiction.  It may provide some inspiration for your class presentation. 

Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter Fiction

http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_fitzgerald_adventures_in_twitter_fiction.html

Play Writing

Greetings, Class Community.



Over the past several weeks we have discussed a number of creative writing strategies and techniques for you to consider as you revise the stories you submitted for workshop.



In addition to improving a specific writing technique, I would like to consider how theories associated with 'remix' impact your work. For example, Assignment 3 asks you to use social media as an influence or as inspiration for your story.  Many of you created very interesting stories.



Consider the how would you like them to be displayed in their final form. In addition to the changes you will make to your story in order to revise it, consider what are the remix aspects of the assignment. Think in terms of digital tools, new literacies, and what makes what you are writing specific to contemporary intersections of history and technology.


I am going to list a few links that you may find helpful in your revision/remix re-writes ;)

 Please feel free to add to the list by including additional links you may find helpful in the comments box.

This is for you courageous play writes.  This site is very helpful and please remember that writing a play can incorporate many other techniques. 

http://www.playwriting101.com

Narrative Voice - A Close 3rd : Toni Morrison's Jazz

Greetings, Class Community.



Over the past several weeks we have discussed a number of creative writing strategies and techniques for you to consider as you revise the stories you submitted for workshop.



In addition to improving a specific writing technique, I would like to consider how theories associated with 'remix' impact your work. For example, Assignment 3 asks you to use social media as an influence or as inspiration for your story.  Many of you created very interesting stories.



Consider the how would you like them to be displayed in their final form. In addition to the changes you will make to your story in order to revise it, consider what are the remix aspects of the assignment. Think in terms of digital tools, new literacies, and what makes what you are writing specific to contemporary intersections of history and technology.


I am going to list a few links that you may find helpful in your revision/remix re-writes ;)

 Please feel free to add to the list by including additional links you may find helpful in the comments box.

The best close third person narrative voice can witnessed by reading the opening chapter of Toni Morrison's novel Jazz.

 - http://www.deviantart.com/digitalart/?view_mode=2&order=11&q=toni+morrison

                            

Below is a short reading of the first page. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ValYBIaUuXs

Non-Fiction Julianna Baggott

Greetings, Class Community.



Over the past several weeks we have discussed a number of creative writing strategies and techniques for you to consider as you revise the stories you submitted for workshop.



In addition to improving a specific writing technique, I would like to consider how theories associated with 'remix' impact your work. For example, Assignment 3 asks you to use social media as an influence or as inspiration for your story.  Many of you created very interesting stories.



Consider the how would you like them to be displayed in their final form. In addition to the changes you will make to your story in order to revise it, consider what are the remix aspects of the assignment. Think in terms of digital tools, new literacies, and what makes what you are writing specific to contemporary intersections of history and technology.


I am going to list a few links that you may find helpful in your revision/remix re-writes ;)

  Please feel free to add to the list by including additional links you may find helpful in the comments box.

Julianna Baggott..

"Julianna began publishing short stories when she was twenty-two and sold her first novel while still in her twenties. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, Girl Talk, which was a national bestseller and was quickly followed by The Boston Globe bestseller The Miss America Family, and thenThe Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, an historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reveiws)."

Literary Murderer

http://books.google.com/books?id=VyxT5lpSbxgC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=julianna+baggott+non-fiction&source=bl&ots=R9PJLb8pQb&sig=0icJCQCeP4hsONpOv-lVyIrbTG8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7X5LUui9CoPEyQG4uYC4BQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=julianna%20baggott%20non-fiction&f=false