This call is an invitation to inquire into the ideas, practices, and issues of language. What struggles, resistance, confusions, subversions, silencing, shaping, slippage do we find within our engagement with this most fundamental activity?

Can we, should we, disrupt/subvert/divert/expose the language of media, institutions, education, politics? What is it we don’t hear? Is there a language of silence? How does language foster inclusivity, exclusivity? Is there a language of the commons: ownership, heritage? Is there a language of presence and presentation? How do we understand multiple literacies: visual, textual, audio, tactile, semiotic?

How might we, as engaged participants in co-creating shared discourse, come to understand, conceptualize and engage with the complexities of language?

Submission Guidelines: Limit manuscripts to 5000 words or less, poetry to 5000 words or less, music to 2 minutes or less, and digital videos to 300 MB or less. See Guidelines for details.

Contributions should be sent to Dr. Lynn Fels, Co-ordinating Editor at educational.insights@ubc.ca. Or mailed to:

Dr. Lynn Fels
Educational Insights
Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry,
Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia,
2125 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z4.

No mailed materials will be returned.

DEADLINE: June 01, 2007