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“MnWE News”
Spring
Pre-Conference
Issue
March-April 2020
March
Conference:
“Civic
Engagement
through 21st
Century
Literacies”
Minnesota State
University-Mankato,
Fri.-Sat., March
20-21, 2020
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MARCH 13 TO SAVE
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In this issue:
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JOIN US FOR
OUR MARCH
20-21
CONFERENCE AT
MINNSTATE-MANKATO!
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GOING TO THE
MnWE
CONFERENCE?
-
LUNCHTIME
KEYNOTES AND
KEYNOTERS
-
MORNING
PLENARIES
-
MANKATO:
EDUCATIONAL
AND CULTURAL
CENTER
6. LIST OF FREE
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7. ABOUT MNWE
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1.
JOIN US FOR OUR
MARCH 20-21
CONFERENCE AT
MINNSTATE-MANKATO!
Pre-register by
March 13 to save
money, or
register at the
conference. Our
two-day
conference at
MinnState-Mankato
is on track to
have 120-160 in
attendance from
a wide range and
variety of
universities and
colleges
throughout the
Upper Midwest.
We also will
have about forty
breakout
sessions on our
theme and other
issues. In
addition, we
will offer two
lunchtime
keynotes and two
morning
plenaries on our
theme,
“Civic Engagement through 21st Century
Literacies.”
(See below.)
Join us
April 20-21 at
any time to
discover more
about civic
engagement for
our 21st
century
students. Why
should they be
engaged? How can
they best become
engaged? How can
we best help
their own
choices for
engagement? And
in the evenings,
we will have two
dinners
(self-purchase)
at popular
Mankato
restaurants, and
a Happy Hour
Friday evening.
We are a
friendly,
positive
conference
looking more for
discussion by
breakout
presenters, less
for lecture, and
a sharing of
each other’s
incisive
thoughts and
questions.
Preregister now
to save money.
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Preregistration:
www.MnWE.org
More on the
Conference Theme
and a Preview of
the Program:
www.MnWE.org
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2. GOING TO
THE CONFERENCE?
Pre-reg.
Deadline March
13: Sign up
now (by March
13) for
preregistration
to save $10! Or
sign up at the
Conference. Your
registration
fees go only to
the costs of the
conference and
keynotes: all
other work is
done by
volunteers
giving their
time freely.
MnWE Conference
registration
fees are lower
than most state
and regional
conferences. We
have special
fees for
adjuncts,
students, high
school faculty,
and community
members. Two
lunches are
included in your
registration.
The fees are
listed at
www.MnWE.org.
Lodging
& Parking:
Where should you
stay? We list
three hotels of
varying prices.
Rooms may go
quickly, so we
recommend you
reserve your
room soon. The
AmericInn hotel
near the campus
is a 10-15
minute walk from
the conference,
as are the
low-cost or free
lots. If you
drive to the
conference,
parking lots
close to the
conference may
be full, so plan
on walking for
10-15 minutes or
paying a
separate meter
charge. Hotels,
color maps, and
more parking
information are
available in
“Logistics,
Lodging, and
Events” at
www.MnWE.org.
Presenters’
Guidelines:
Are you
presenting?
Please do
carefully review
our “Guidelines
for Presenters”
at
www.mnweconference.com/guidelines-for-presenters-and-chairs.html
COVID-19:
Are you
concerned about
the COVID-19
coronavirus
situation in
Mankato and/or
Minnesota? We
are carefully
monitoring it.
Richard
Davenport,
MinnState-Mankato’s
President,
offers a web
page for updates
and information
about the virus
at
https://mankato.mnsu.edu/coronavirus.
The Minnesota
State Dept. of
Health page
about it is at
www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html
Early
Arrivers:
Allow extra time
for parking.
(See above.) If
you come early
for registration
or check-in, you
can then join us
for free coffee,
tea, and
pastries
8:00-9:00 am!
Our “Welcome”
starts at 8:45
each morning,
and our plenary
at 9:00 am.
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3. LUNCHTIME
KEYNOTES AND
KEYNOTERS
Our
Friday lunch
keynoter is
dynamic author
Beth Godbee,
who writes and
presents about
social, racial,
and
environmental
justice; and
power, agency,
and rights. Her
keynote “Breaking
Civil Discourse
will
problematize
“civic
engagement” and
help us consider
how literacy
education and
justice can be
developed in an
era when,
unfortunately,
some of our
civil discourse
justifies
excluding and
dehumanizing
people. Her
UW-Madison Ph.D.
is in
composition and
rhetoric, she
was an Associate
Professor in
English (Writing
Studies) at
Marquette
University, and
she has
certification as
a secondary
school teacher.
On
Saturday, one of
Minnesota’s top
literary
authors, Ed
Bok Lee, is
speaking on “Yet
Another Other:
Connecting
Issues of
Immigration and
the Environment”
concerning how
different
perspectives and
bodies–otherness–become
not barriers,
but catalysts
toward
strengthening
relationships
among all. Ed is
the son of North
and South Korean
emigrants and
grew
up in South Korea, North Dakota, and Minnesota. He has won the American
Book Award,
Minnesota Book
Award, Asian
American
Literary Award
(Members’
Choice), and
PEN/Open Book
Award. He is
Associate
Professor in
Fine Arts at
Metropolitan
State
University.
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More on MnWE
keynoters:
www.mnweconference.com/keynotes-and-plenaries.html
Beth Godbee:
https://heart-head-hands.com
Ed Bok Lee:
https://edboklee.com
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4.
MORNING
PLENARIES
Each
morning Friday
and Saturday at
9 am (the
“Welcome” starts
at 8:45), we
will feature a
plenary to start
the day. Come a
bit earlier to
park, to
register or
check in, and to
have free
coffee, tea, and
pastries. Here
are our
plenaries:
Friday
Plenary:
“Connecting
Classrooms and
Communities.”
Our communities
are richly
diverse, but our
classroom
materials often
are not. This
interactive
plenary session
will engage the
audience in
conversations
about how to use
class readings
and other
materials to
engage more
deeply with
communities
inside and
outside of the
classroom.
David
Beard,
University of
Minn.-Duluth;
Jasmine Kar
Tang, University
of Minn.-Twin
Cities and Minn.
Writing Project;
Kevin Lindsey,
Minnesota
Humanities
Center; and Mary
Taris, Strive
Publishing
Saturday
Plenary:
"Classroom
Strategies for
Engaging in
Civic Literacy."
Four Minnesota
State
University-Mankato
faculty members,
representing
Composition,
TESOL, Technical
Communication
and the Library,
respectively,
will be sharing
their classroom
strategies for
engaging in
civic literacy
through their
specific lens.
Writing
expertise tends
to fall into
different
categories, but
this plenary
will showcase a
number of
strategies for
teaching, as
well as what we
have in common
as writing
instructors.
Minnesota State
University-Mankato:
Kelly Moreland,
Rhetoric and
Composition;
Paolo Infante,
TESOL; Abigail
Bakke, Technical
Communication;
and Jenny
Turner, Library
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5.
MANKATO:
EDUCATIONAL AND
CULTURAL CENTER
The drive
to and from
Mankato can be a
special tour:
the
Minnesota River
Valley National
Scenic Byway
stretches
southeast from
South Dakota,
down to Mankato,
and then
northeast toward
Minneapolis. A
number of stops
highlight
Minnesota plains
settlement, as
well as the life
of the Dakota
Native
Americans. In
Mankato itself,
another historic
tour of national
import is a
self-guided one
of thirty-three
sites relating
to the 1862
Dakota-U.S. War
resulting in
over a thousand
deaths of Native
Americans and
U.S. soldiers,
and the largest
single U.S. mass
execution.
Afterward, most
Dakotas were
forced to leave
Minnesota on
pain of death.
Mankato
itself is a very
interesting and
busy
metropolitan
area: an
educational and
cultural capital
for southern
central-west
Minnesota. It
has 100,000
people with
25,000 students
at Minnesota
State-Mankato,
the largest
branch of the
state university
system, and
other nearby
colleges and
universities.
You can
self-tour the
nationally
lauded CityArt
Walking
Sculpture Tour,
the Mankato
Poetry Walk and
Ride, and the
“WordWalk” on
sidewalks and
paths and
“CityArt On the
Go” highlighting
murals on
traffic signal
boxes. Several
art galleries
also are in
Mankato, as well
as museums such
as the Blue
Earth Historical
Society, the
Betsy-Tacy
Houses, and the
Children’s
Museum of
Southern
Minnesota.
Mankato
also sports many
restaurants and
shopping areas.
These
include the
large, popular
River Hills
Mall, dozens of
restaurants of
many ethnic
types, four
wineries, and a
lively downtown.
And for outdoor
enthusiasts,
many trails and
riverways are
available for
hiking, biking,
rowing, and
canoeing/kayaking.
along with
public beaches,
parks,
and a petting
zoo.
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Minnesota River
Valley National
Scenic Byway and
map:
www.mnrivervalley.com
1862 Dakota War
tour:
U.S.-Dakota-Conflict-of-1862-Self-Guided-Tour-brochure.pdf
Travel Guides,
online
viewing/ordering:
www.visitgreatermankato.com/travel-guides
General Visitor
Site:
https://www.visitgreatermankato.com
Direct
info/guidebook
requests:
visitors@greatermankato.com,
ph.
1-800-657-4733
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6.
LIST OF
FREE
E-NEWSLETTERS
(repeated in
each “MnWE
News”):
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Other
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“The
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Sample
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Other
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methods
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Sample e-letter
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“Tomorrow’s
Professor,”
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University,
twice-weekly,
each
with a full
teaching-learning
article
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Sample
e-letter and
online version
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7.
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Richard Jewell,
General
Coordinator
Larry Sklaney,
Conference
Coordinator
Danielle
Hinrichs,
Program
Coordinator
Gordon Pueschner,
Site Floor
Coordinator
Ellen Zamarripa,
Volunteer
Coordinator
Jana Rieck,
Communications
Coordinator
Vanessa Ramos,
NHCC, 2019 Site
Coordinator
Kirsti Cole,
Minn.
State-Mankato,
2020 Site
Coordinator
richard at
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sklaney at
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999-5960
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Donald Ross of
the University
of
Minnesota and
Taiyon Coleman
of St. Catherine
University run a
breakout session
about
literature. In a
later year, they
jointly provided
a MnWE keynote.
Geoffrey Sirc of
the University
of Minnesota
runs a small
breakout after
his keynote
presentation.
Many University
of Minnesota
faculty have
given
presentations at
MnWE, as well as
faculty and
graduate
students from
many other
universities,
colleges, and
high schools.
MnWE started in
2007.
The cofounders
were Richard
Jewell, here
giving a welcome
after lunch, and Donald
Ross, second
picture above.
MnWE has drawn
presenters from
Minnesota, the
states and
province around
it, and at least
five other
states and
countries.
During a 2016
breakout,
Beata Puschner
presents on improving
classroom
inclusion of ELL
students. MnWE
attracts a
variety of
people in other
departments and
positions, too,
from ESL and
Reading to
Library Science
and
college-in-the-high-schools
faculty.
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