Mission:
We will explore what it means
to be literate in the Global World… We will ask what the
Future of Literacy will be…We will learn to live the
questions now …
Mandate:
- We will create a space, ground and
service for the exploration, advocacy, and debate for the
meaning and importance of multiple forms of literacy
- We will bring literacy practitioners, artists and
activists together with scholars, teachers, philosophers,
media representatives and students
History:
On November 14-16, 2002, a groundbreaking international
conference was held at York University. Entitled
Living
Literacies, it
served to address the question "What does it mean to read
and write now?" Speakers were invited to talk on: Origins
and Futurity (Eric Willis, B.W. Powe, John O’Leary, Senator
Joyce Fairbairn); Language and Orality (Barry Sanders,
Ningwakwe (Priscilla George), Christopher Dewdney, Robert
K. Logan, Steve McCaffery); E-Literacy (Caitlin Fisher,
Moses Znaimer, Daniel Richler, Jean Baudrillard); Images
(Camille Paglia, William Irwin Thompson, George Steiner);
and Critique (Geoff Pevere, Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak). See
http://www.livingliteracies.ca for more information about
the conference.
