The English division of the School of Arts, Humanities, and English at Diné College is hosting a two-day virtual conference entitled, “Still Sacred: First-Year Writing at the Tribal College.” The conference is organized around re-envisioning a writing curriculum that meets the needs of the college’s students, with presentations and workshops offered by scholars in both writing studies and Indigenous studies.
The conference will explore topics ranging from service learning with writing, universal design strategies based in neurodivergence, and considering Indigenous paradigms in the writing classroom. Presentations include “Serving and Learning as We Write” by Isabel Baca of the University of Texas at El Paso; “Universal Design for Learning and Neurodivergence in the Writing Classroom: A Class for All” by Dev K. Bose of the University of Arizona; “American Indian College Writers: A Montana Perspective” by Barbara Komlos of Montana State University; “