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Conference Schedule

Plot Twist!

Time Session
8-8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

Regnier Center (RC) Atrium
8:30-8:50 a.m.

Welcome

RC 101

  • Opening Remarks
  • Andrea Broomfield, JCCC English Department Chair
  • Heidi Pitre, Visual Artist
9-10 a.m.

Session I

Session 1A (RC 101A) Session 1B (RC 145) Session 1C (RC 175) Session 1D (RC 181) Session 1E (RC 183)
10:10-11:10 a.m.

Session II

Session 2A (RC 101A)

Session 2B (RC 145)

Session 2C (RC 175)

Session 2D (RC 181)

Session 2E (RC 183)
11:10-11:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

RC Atrium
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Session III

Session 3A (RC 101A)

Session 3B (RC 145)

Session 3C (RC 175)

Session 3D (RC 181)
12:40-2:30 p.m.

Lunch and Keynote with Laura Moriarty

RC 101

  • Remarks by Brian Shawver, Dean, English and Journalism Division, Johnson County Community College
  • Hare & Bell Award Recognition by Kara Kynion, Writing Center Director, Johnson County Community College
  • Keynote Introduction by Sayanti Ganguly Puckett, Professor, English, Johnson County Community College

Keynote — Any Hope in Art and Life: Adjusting to New Realities

Laura Moriarty

“People wish to be settled,” Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, slyly, for he continued: “only so far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.” Emerson’s opinion is widely held in fiction writing, where threat and discomfort don’t just drive tension; they’re agents of change, pushing a protagonist to see themselves, someone else, or the entire world in a different light. But in our lives off the page, there are of course all kinds of “growth opportunities” we’d rather not encounter. In this keynote address, novelist and writing teacher Laura Moriarty will consider how unwelcome plot twists might affect, sometimes in surprising ways, individuals and entire professions.
2:20-2:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks

  • Dan Cryer, Associate Professor, English, Johnson County Community College