Conference Ideas

1. Pull out your favorite essay from last semester or Spring 05 and submit the subject as a presentation. If you need help completing the proposal form (attached below), you can ask of these people for help: me (Lea Masiello); Dr. Carse, Dr. Marsden, or Dr. Perdue in the Writing Center (the tutors there are very experienced at writing proposals for conferences!). You can also talk with the professor for whom you wrote that essay.
   
2. Get together with two or three of your friends and classmates and work up a presentation for a discussion on a topic you're interested in. Consider designing mini-presentations for each of you, introducing your interests in the subject, and then design questions for your audience so they can enter the conversation.
   
3. Organize a group discussion for your special-interest English track concentration. Send me a message about your ideas and I'll put it out to the whole English major population and forward responses to you from those who would like to join you.
   
4. Propose an open reading session of essays, poetry, fiction, drama. Propose a session to co-write a mini-play on the spot on a particular topic you're concerned about.
   
5. Propose a "poster" session where participants bring in posters that illustrate ideas they have about particular focused literary projects or other kinds of projects related to your programs of study.
   
6. Talk with your current professors about projects your whole class might work up.
   
   
   

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