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<div>If you have a few minutes this weekend, please have a look at the first article in the issue, Kate Rossiter and Annalise Clarkson's "Opening Ontario’s “Saddest Chapter”: A Social History of Huronia Regional Centre." This article acts as a great primer
for the historic class action lawsuit beginning this coming Monday in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. </div>
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<div>Disability and Poverty: Stories that Resist Attitudinal Barriers to Inclusion</div>
<div>Randy Johner</div>
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<div>Sheila K. Jennings</div>
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<div>Buying time: The S/pace of Advocacy and the Cultural Production of Autism</div>
<div>Anne E. McGuire</div>
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<div>Commentary: When Bureaucracy and Policy Leave Ethics Behind: Our Nineteen-Day Battle with Alberta Health Services to Save Our (Independent) Lives<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">
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<div>Heidi Janz</div>
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<div>As always, the CJDS is free, open access, and accessible.</div>
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<div class="PlainText">Jay Dolmage, Ph.D<br>
Editor, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies<br>
Associate Professor of English<br>
University of Waterloo<br>
Department of English<br>
Hagey Hall of Humanities Building<br>
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1<br>
Tel: 519 888 4567 x31035<br>
Fax: 519 746 5788<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 13, 2013 8:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shelley Hulan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Randy Harris; Jay Dolmage; englchr Easton; englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: draft strategic plan update : The Literature of Aging<br>
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<div>While we're thinking so imaginatively, maybe we can add that much of what we do as teachers and researchers is document novelty and analyze innovation (in literature, in rhetoric, in communication technology). We also produce original materials, whether
in writing or in other forms. I think Waterloo's understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship could be deeply enriched by what we bring to them. </div>
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Katherine Acheson, PhD</div>
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On 2013-09-12, at 10:29 PM, "Shelley Hulan" <<a href="mailto:shulan@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">shulan@uwaterloo.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>I think that these are all great ideas and would add that, in fact, it would not be difficult to fit ourselves in with the "water" focus. We are a stone's throw from the Great Lakes, and with the existing expertise in the department we could easily develop
courses on the literature of the Great Lakes that would range from (among others) some of the earliest Ojibwa writing to Alice Munro's short fiction and memoirs. I would also add that as a member of the Board of Governors I've had the opportunity to hear plenty
of discussion about the strategic plan. One thing about all three foci is that they are broad, and that's not an accident. I'm no fan of differentiation, but the rubric we have now is as capacious it can be and still go by that name. There is a sense that
with these three foci, people will be free to investigate them creatively, looking at every possible facet of them. Yes it means that we have to make a case for everything we want, and line it up with the strategic plan, but when has that not been the case
in the past ten years?The university has always had priorities, and we have always had to fit into them. With these three foci, I think we're actually in excellent shape. So buck up, Fraser! Stop feeling existential dread! And thanks for your work on our strategic
plan!</div>
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<a href="mailto:englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca</a> [<a href="mailto:englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca</a>] on behalf of
Randy Allen Harris [<a href="mailto:raha@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">raha@uwaterloo.ca</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> September 12, 2013 9:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jay Dolmage<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca</a>; englchr Easton<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: draft strategic plan update : The Literature of Aging<br>
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<div>I will add to this stream (Thanks, John! Great idea!) that cognitive rhetoric and (especially) cognitive poetics have significant implications for the psychology of aging and for remediating or cutting through some of the deficits that can come with aging.
Rhythm, schemes, and maybe some tropes, all build very resilient neural pathways, and many figures add a signal-robustness to language that can help communication with aphasics. Anecdotally now, my father was almost totally befogged by dementia, but just two
months before his death I read him "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee," poems that he had memorized as a child, and he followed them intently. He even, to everyone's astonishment, read a few continuous pages from "Cremation"
on his own. best, --randy
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<div>On Sep 12, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Jay Dolmage <<a href="mailto:dolmage@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">dolmage@uwaterloo.ca</a>> wrote:</div>
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I would just add (as you would all likely assume) that there are myriad overlaps between the study of aging and disability studies.<br>
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I would also add a perhaps-connected, perhaps-not-connected thought. I've always felt that something like Canterbury Elder College is both really intriguing and really promising for the Waterloo region, which has an aging population. There is a newly-proposed
seniors complex in Waterloo, out by the Stork YMCA, where seniors will live and also have access to cutting-edge care; in return Waterloo and McMaster researchers will have access to this population. I'd love to teach something like a life-writing class in
a place like this (I'm sure others would too). What if we started thinking of potential English majors of all ages?<br>
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Jay<br>
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Jay Dolmage, Ph.D<br>
Editor, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies<br>
Associate Professor of English<br>
University of Waterloo<br>
Department of English<br>
Hagey Hall of Humanities Building<br>
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1<br>
Tel: 519 888 4567 x31035<br>
Fax: 519 746 5788<br>
<a href="mailto:dolmage@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">dolmage@uwaterloo.ca</a><br>
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From: <a href="mailto:englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">
englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca</a> [<a href="mailto:englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca</a>] on behalf of Kenneth Graham [<a href="mailto:k2graham@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">k2graham@uwaterloo.ca</a>]<br>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:19 PM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:khirschk@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">khirschk@uwaterloo.ca</a>; Marcel O'Gorman<br>
Cc: englchr Easton; <a href="mailto:englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">
englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca</a><br>
Subject: RE: draft strategic plan update : The Literature of Aging<br>
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Hi Everyone:<br>
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Aging is certainly the most promising of the three UW research priorities for an English Department. In addition to what has been mentioned, there was a report on the PBS Newshour tonight on the Alzheimer's Poetry Project (<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2013/09/where-poetry-lives.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2013/09/where-poetry-lives.html</a>;
<a href="http://www.alzpoetry.com/" target="_blank">http://www.alzpoetry.com/</a>). A former colleague of mine had spent twenty years teaching creative writing to seniors, and there's our student Lindsay Kroes's collection of stories gathered from Stratford
seniors (<a href="http://uwaterloo.ca/history/news/new-history-book-waterloo-student-lindsay-kroes" target="_blank">http://uwaterloo.ca/history/news/new-history-book-waterloo-student-lindsay-kroes</a>). So there are lots of possibilities here, and we should
think about them. As always, we need to ask ourselves not only what is possible, but also whether particular options are things we want to do, or just things that seem like they might bring funding support.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ken<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">
englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca</a> [<a href="mailto:englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca</a>] on behalf of
<a href="mailto:khirschk@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">khirschk@uwaterloo.ca</a> [<a href="mailto:khirschk@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">khirschk@uwaterloo.ca</a>]<br>
Sent: September 12, 2013 12:25 PM<br>
To: Marcel O'Gorman<br>
Cc: englchr Easton; <a href="mailto:englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">
englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca</a><br>
Subject: Re: draft strategic plan update : The Literature of Aging<br>
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Dear all<br>
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I have, believe it or not, supervised a PhD thesis on literature and<br>
critical gerontology (yes, of course, there is such a thing, and yes,<br>
it involves Habermas - and not just because he is getting longer in<br>
the tooth).<br>
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best<br>
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Ken<br>
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Quoting Marcel O'Gorman <<a href="mailto:marcel@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">marcel@uwaterloo.ca</a>>:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I think this is a great idea. I have volunteers coming to my<br>
memory/techne course who will be discussing their<br>
Alzheimer's-related dementia. I would be willing to organize a unit<br>
or lesson on memory and aging. I teach two novels in my class on<br>
this very topic.<br>
m.<br>
On 2013-09-12, at 11:22 AM, John North wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Would courses on Aging at the 100, 300/400 and grad levels help? We<br>
might argue that Literature presents the process of aging from<br>
youth to old age. Many sample texts come to mind: Milton's Samson<br>
and Shakespeare's Lear and Leontes/Hermione (The Tempest) for<br>
example--but hundreds could be found--Tennyson's Ulysses and<br>
Arthur, Wordsworth's "The child is father of the man", Coleridge's<br>
Ancient Mariner, Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good<br>
Night," the Bronte novels, even and especially Dante, Eliot's "The<br>
Journey of the Magi"<br>
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(All this was a long time ago, I remember,/ ...but set down/ This,<br>
set down/ This: were we lead all that way for / Birth or death?...<br>
this Birth was/ Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our<br>
death. / ...We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,/ But no<br>
longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,/ With an alien people<br>
clutching their gods./ I should be glad of another death.)<br>
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We could even produce some oldsters to teach such courses! and set<br>
up the courses as a sub-specialty to be recorded on student<br>
transcripts.<br>
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By the way in my current 451A Victorian Poetry class only one<br>
student has read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which is<br>
arguably the greatest of the Romantic poems.<br>
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John<br>
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Thank you for this, Fraser. You've put a lot of work into this<br>
plan on behalf of the rest of us and it looks like it's addressing<br>
the main visions that we have for our department and also<br>
presenting a clear 'face' to the audiences that will read this.<br>
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It's worth remembering that its primary goal is strategic and<br>
focused on the long-term health of the department within the<br>
university, so your proposed editorial changes re PW, digital<br>
Romanticism, experiential learning etc make sense to me as things<br>
to bring to the forefront, so that we can secure our research and<br>
teaching in all the myriad areas that matter to us.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Heather<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">
englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca</a><br>
[<a href="mailto:englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">englfac-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca</a>] on behalf of Fraser<br>
Easton [<a href="mailto:englishchair@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">englishchair@uwaterloo.ca</a>]<br>
Sent: September 12, 2013 2:44 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca</a><br>
Subject: draft strategic plan update<br>
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Dear Colleagues--<br>
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I hope you are all having a good first week of the Fall term.<br>
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This is a brief update on our strategic planning exercise, for those<br>
of you who are interested. The current intention is still to bring a<br>
revised version of the document for approval to the Department meeting<br>
at the end of the month.<br>
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1. I have received no public or private requests for an additional<br>
meeting on our draft strategic plan outline. I asked you to let me<br>
know if we should do this due to any serious concerns you might have<br>
about the draft plan. Since I am aware of no serious concerns, no<br>
additional special meeting will be called.<br>
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2. Comments that I have received from you are overwhelmingly positive<br>
about the document, and mostly have small, good suggestions for<br>
emendation (e.g. Aimee's metaphr consistency suggestion) which I will<br>
incorporate as much as possible in a final draft.<br>
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3. The CRC in cognitive rhetoric was challenged on a couple of fronts:<br>
why that area of rhetoric, why rhetoric, why rhetorical theory, etc.<br>
I will emend the current language slightly to keep us from being boxed<br>
in here, but to all who have questions: this came up as a good idea at<br>
the voluntary department meeting on strategic planning. And it needs<br>
to be stressed that rhetoric, if not rhetorical theory, is the ground<br>
of our Department's distinctiveness. We have to be strong there. (Of<br>
course, we can be strong elsewhere, too, and we are, and that is good.<br>
Further, our strength in integration points between lit and rhet is<br>
our highest order strength. But it all comes back, in the end, to a<br>
strong RPW presence.)<br>
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4. Sidebar: I am going to go out on a limb here, but based on Neil's<br>
comments in our email threads and on other conversations I have been<br>
having with many of you, we need to freshen our tech writing (PW, PC)<br>
identity, and I may try to sneak a reference to this into the final<br>
version.<br>
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5. Back to main thread: As some of you will know, the Board of<br>
Governer's has just recently approved the University's new strategic<br>
plan. The plan has identified three key goals for the next few years:<br>
entrepreneurship, experiential learning, and research as critical.<br>
Before any of us get excited about a "research intensification" agenda<br>
by the University, I should note that it is stated that all new<br>
research funding will go to the following three areas exclusively:<br>
quantum, water, and aging.<br>
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Although I feel existential dread descending on me right about now, I<br>
will attempt to hook the document that has already been developed onto<br>
these themes. Some are easy (experiential = co-op PhD). Others<br>
(quantum anybody?) may be harder.<br>
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6. Finally, in our continuing search for permission to hire a<br>
Romanticist, I have reason to believe that a digital Romanticist may<br>
hit the mark better, and so will pair that with our digital<br>
Shakespearean.<br>
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Thank you for your patience with all of this.<br>
<br>
Best, Fraser<br>
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Fraser Easton<br>
Associate Professor and Chair<br>
Department of English Language and Literature<br>
University of Waterloo<br>
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519-888-4567 ext. 33359<br>
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Professor Marcel O'Gorman, PhD<br>
Director, Critical Media Lab<br>
Department of English<br>
University of Waterloo<br>
Hagey Hall<br>
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1<br>
Tel: 519 888 4567 x32946<br>
Fax: 519 746 5788<br>
<a href="http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca</a><br>
<a href="http://marcelogorman.net" target="_blank">http://marcelogorman.net</a><br>
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