Dear colleagues,
We are looking to assemble a panel for 4C26, tentatively titled “Taking it Slow in the Neoliberal/Late-Stage Capitalist University” and would like to invite 1-2 more folks to make a panel with us.
We welcome teacher-scholars especially from community colleges, HBCUs, tribal colleges, SLACs, and beyond who are at any career stage. While our focus is on the multiple uses or limitations of “slow,” however you might define it, we especially welcome folks working in queer of color critique, decolonial or Indigenous approaches to temporality, trans and/or feminist rhetoric, Afrofuturist or Afopressimist theories, disability justice, or any intellectual traditions that might not fit comfortably within typical academic spaces.
What methods, methodologies, or approaches can we create together when we ground “slow” as a meaningful or anchor concept? What challenges does “slow” pose for assessment, pedagogy, or cultural practices that might be enticing to explore together?
Our scholarship has drawn on the Slow Movement (Honoré), as well as Timothy’s “Slow Peer Review in the Writing Classroom,” Jasmine Ulmer’s “Writing Slow Ontology,” and Riyad Shahjahan’s "Being ‘Lazy’ and Slowing Down: Toward Decolonizing Time, Our Body, and Pedagogy,” to name a few points of inspiration. We hope to discuss with attendees how each of us might (or might not) engage “slow” in the work of rhetoric and composition.
If you are interested in participating in this panel, we ask that you email both Kathleen Dillon (kdillon9) and Timothy Oleksiak (Timothy.Oleksiak) by Friday, May 9th, with a short description of what you would wish to discuss so that we can assemble the panel and work on our proposal before the Monday, June 2nd deadline.
Take good care,
Kathleen Dillon and Timothy Oleksiak
Kathleen Rose Dillon
they/she
TRIO SSS Writing Specialist
English Instructor & Doctoral Candidate
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
328 Andrews Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588