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NC Symposium on Teaching Writing
The second annual North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing, hosted Oct. 16-17, 2009, by the First-Year Writing Program, was a tremendous success. We had 70 participants from colleges, universities, and high schools around the region (and from as far away as the University of Pittsburgh and Auburn University). Kathleen Blake Yancey from Florida State University presented the keynote and urged us all to think more about the connections and communication between high school and college-level writing programs.
Thank you to Kate Maddalena and Kevin Brock for organizing such a fantastic symposium!Related Links:
Contributions Acknowledged
- Bob Kochersberger
- Julianna Nfah-Abbenyi
- Seth Styers '07
- Cat Warren
We are currently at $575, so we need only an additional $175 to support one student next year. Our goal is to raise $1500 so that we can support one student each semester. If you would like to contribute to the fund, please contact Susan_Katz@ncsu.edu for information about how to make your donation or click on the link below. Please indicate "English Interns' Scholarship Fund" on any contributions.
Related Links: CHASS "How To Give" page
News from Susan Katz
She also gave a talk on "Assessing Visuals in the Writing Classroom" at the NC Symposium on Teaching Writing on October 17.
Reavis on TV?
At 10 p.m. Sun., Oct. 18, MSNBC, notorious for cheesy true-crime documentaries, will air a program called "Witness to Waco." It is apparently a part of just-in-time-for-Halloween series, "Secrets of the Cults."
In preparation for the segment, the network last summer filmed a six-hour interview with me. If it runs any of it, I will be watching to see what approach it takes to me. Always before, TV crews treated me as a wily investigative reporter, one of their own kind, they'd say, and therefore worthy of respect. I am now wondering if they won't press me into another mold, that of the unworldly English prof.
If anyone still wants to know about Waco and Koresh, I'd heartily recommend my book.
NOTfiction Film Series
NCSU Film Studies and the UAB Present:
NOTfiction film series: films from and about the margins of mainstream
at the NCSU Campus Cinema
Oct. 14: YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME: A FILM ABOUT ROKY ERICKSON (2005)
91 min. - Dir. Keven McAlester ' Intro: Maria Pramaggiore, Film Studies
This is the story of Roky Erickson: manic frontman for the legendary band The 13th Floor Elevators, creators of psychedelic music and muse to Janis Joplin. YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME is a disturbingly intimate portrait of an imploding family and the struggle between modernized medicine and religion.
Known for his colossal heroin & LSD binges, struggles with schizophrenia, and an unthinkable term at Rusk hospital for the criminally insane, Roky went missing from the world. YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME reveals the shocking & triumphant truth behind one of Rock's great mysteries.
Oct. 21: DECASIA (2002) in 35mm!
70 min. - Dir. Bill Morrison; Intro: Maria Pramaggiore, Film Studies
Bill Morrison's film might be literally described as an avant-garde collage of decomposing film fragments set to an uncommonly evocative score. But this doesn't do justice to its lingering effects or its apocalyptic tone. Errol Morris describes it in the following breathless terms:
'A pure poetry of deliquescence. The images are at once haunting, mysterious, and incredibly beautiful. A definitive work of art. And a new kind of documentary documenting the decay of itself.'
Errol Morris, documentary filmmaker
Nov. 11: Special Veterans Day DOUBLE BILL
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM STORY
10 min - Dir. Bill Daniel (1998); Intro: Marsha Orgeron, Film Studies
Created for the Independent Film Channel's Split Screen series, Bill Daniel's film revisits the 1970 short film Selective Service System and interviews Dan Lovejoy and Warren Haake, who made the graphic depiction of an individual's attempt to avoid the Vietnam War draft as film students at San Francisco State University.
SIR! NO SIR! in 35mm!
85 min. - Dir. David Zeiger (2005)
SIR! NO SIR! is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960's'one that had profound impact on American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time: The GI movement to end the war in Vietnam.
SPECIAL EVENT ' FILMMAKER AND FILM SUBJECT IN PERSON!!!
Nov. 18: ROCATERRANIA (2009)
74 min - Dir. Brett Ingram
Rocaterrania is a feature-length documentary journey into the secret world of 76-year-old Renaldo Kuhler, a visionary artist who invented an imaginary country to survive his disaffected youth and illustrated the nation's history for six decades. FILMMAKER and UNC Greensboro Professor Brett Ingram and Raleigh Resident Renaldo Kuhler will introduce the film and take questions after the screening.
***all films begin at 7:00 and are free and open to the public***
