DDGC Reading Group 2022
DDGC 2023: Creating Just Outcomes and Assessments, Together (a.k.a. The 'Hot'-comes Conference)
Reading Group Description and Participant Information
Organizers: David Gramling & Ervin Malakaj
BACKGROUND
The fourth iteration of the DDGC conference is dedicated to interrogating existing and dreaming up new outcomes and assessments for language learning and culture studies programs.
In anticipation of the conference, we will host a regular reading group. The group will discuss ideas pertinent for the broader interests of the conference. Its aims are, however, not disciplinary—it does not seek to anticipate certain relational and intellectual outcomes in our collaboration. Rather, the reading group will ideally be generative by helping us acknowledge our individual limitations, embrace the potential in collective endeavors, and inspire new possibilities of tending to pressing questions facing our work through conversation.
FORMAT
The reading group will be available in both synchronous and asynchronous online formats in order to accommodate participation for as many scholars as possible. The synchronous meetings will take place over zoom, while the asynchronous “meetings” will take place in google documents.
Synchronous Meetings
Each meeting is dedicated to select readings and will generally take on the following form: introductions/ check in; establishing key contributions of readings; articulating their value for our collective project; outlook for the next meeting. During each meeting, we will collectively take notes in a document. By the time we reach our conference, we will have an archive of collective engagement with the topic(s) that will make for a rich conversation and collective practice. The documents we use to collect notes for synchronous meetings will be the same used for the asynchronous meetings.
Asynchronous Meeting
Each scheduled discussion will have a main document in which we will collect notes. You can share your perspective about the readings and respond to those of other participants within the document. You can do so at any time that works for your schedule.
In-Person Local Meetups and Online Gatherings during Nonscheduled Times
We are not able to organize these for you, but we highly encourage scholars who are in close proximity to one another to form local discussion groups that take place in person. If you are interested in this format, check in with the people on the participant list and reach out to them directly.
We also encourage those of you not able to participate in the scheduled meetings due to scheduling issues to reach out to the participant list to organize alternative times during which you are able to meet. All it takes is two to have a good exchange, so this does not need to be a big group.
If you meet up in either of these alternative formats, please consider sharing your ideas/notes in the collective documents.
READING SCHEDULE
Tuesday, November 1, 2022. 1-2pm Pacific Time
DDGC. “DDGC Guiding Principles.” Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum. Accessed: September 25, 2022. https://diversityingermancurriculum.weebly.com/guiding-principles.html.
Kyla Wazana Tompkins. “We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know.” LA Review of Books. September 13, 2016. https://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2016/09/13/we-arent-here-to-learn-what-we-know-we-already-know/.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022. 1-2pm Pacific Time
bell hooks. “Standards.” Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. New York: Routledge, 2003. 77–81.
Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa. “Bringing Race Into Second Language Acquisition.” The Modern Language Journal103.S1 (2019): 145–151.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 1-2pm Pacific Time
Sharon Stein et al. “Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far.” Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education 4.1 (2020): 43–65.
Tuesday, February 7, 1-2pm Pacific Time
Mimi Khúc. “Making Mental Health through Open in Emergency: A Journey in Love Letters.” South Atlantic Quarterly120.2 (2021): 369–388. OR Khúc’s For the Wild Podcast from September 14, 2022.
Tuesday, March 7, 1-2pm Pacific Time
Lauren Berlant. “On Being in Life without Wanting the World: No World Poetics, or, Elliptical Life.” On the Inconvenience of Other People. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 117–147.