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Institute for Writing and Thinking Presents

IWT Writer as Reader Workshops

Friday, October 1, 2021
Online Event
9:00 am – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
We planning for both the October 1 and November 5, 2021 Bard College IWT Writer as Reader Workshops to be held online. We look forward to returning to in-person workshops in 2022.

Writer as Reader workshops model writing practices that inspire students to read more carefully, to grasp the meaning in more complex texts, and to infer meaning from what they read. These workshops invite secondary and college teachers to consider “writing to read” as a central classroom practice, one that shows rather than tells students how writing clarifies the meaning of texts. Working with diverse writing-to-read strategies, workshop participants discover what they bring to the text, what is apparent in the text, what is inferred, and what questions the text poses.

Workshop offerings:
  1. Reading Climate, Writing Change: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Christina Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac’s The Future We Choose: Surviving Climate Crisis
  2. “Vulnerable to Foreign Ways of Seeing and Thinking”: James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues” and Gloria Anzaldúa's “La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness”
  3. Diving Into The Wreck: Daniel Defoe, Adrienne Rich, and J.M. Coetzee
  4. “Who Will Take Up the Body?”: Sara Uribe’s Antígona González Reimagines Antigone within Today’s Global Politics
  5. Othello and American Moor: Studying Shakespeare in a Racialized America
  6. Science and Disenchantment: Max Weber’s “Science as Vocation” and the Role of Science in Ethical Life
  7. Edith Wharton's Two New Yorks
  8. “It’s Getting Started That’s the Puzzle”: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow, and telling American stories
  9. "I would not paint — a picture —": Emily Dickinson’s Visual Poetics
  10. The Lavender Scare: Mid-century Fictions and Fears

For more information, call 845-752-4516, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://iwt.bard.edu/workshops/writer-as-reader/.

Time: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Online Event

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