Conferences, cities and themes
The six editions of the Conference on Community Writing in the corpus, 2015 to 2025, with the host and theme printed in each program and what the program lets us read.
The conference meets in odd years, so there are no even-year editions. The 2021 edition was held online; the Coalition's own menu lists it under Washington, D.C. Each program was read by a parser written for that year's layout, so the notes below say where the reading is weak. A site is blank where the program does not print one.
| Year | Site | Notes | Sessions | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Detroit, Michigan | Only the four DeepThink Tanks and the keynote speaker Donnie Johnson Sackey are public. The rest of the schedule is in a registration portal and is not in the corpus, so the counts for this year are far lower than the conference itself. The tanks print no times. | 5 | 19 |
| 2023 | Denver, Colorado | Activating Radical Imagination Read from the program Google Doc. Sessions A9, A10, H10, W2 and W7 do not appear in the Doc, and Session E is printed as a single graduate research session. The creative displays and virtual presentations have no time. The Doc prints the leaders of the pre-conference visit to History Colorado (PC1) in its description, so they were added by hand, and the chair of D9 was read from a free-text sentence. | 125 | 327 |
| 2021 virtual | Online (listed as Washington, D.C.) | Weaving Narratives for Social Justice Action in the Local, National, Global Read from the program Google Doc for the online conference; times are Eastern. Panel A4 prints a code and nothing else, and panel B1 is missing from the Doc, so neither is here. The pre-recorded panels and talks have no time. | 123 | 385 |
| 2019 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Doing the Work Read from the schedule page on the Coalition's site. Chairs are printed without an institution; where the chair also presents, the institution comes from that listing. Session H6 is printed as “No session assigned” and is left out. The three keynotes were added by hand and print no institutions. | 98 | 347 |
| 2017 | Boulder, Colorado | Engaging Networks and Ecologies Read from the program PDF. All 80 panels (A to H) are here. Workshops that the PDF describes only on its abstract pages are listed from there with their facilitators. The Makerthon (15 sessions) prints names with no institutions, and the descriptive paragraphs under a few sessions are not kept. The keynotes and Elaine Richardson's performance were added by hand. | 125 | 347 |
| 2015 | Boulder, Colorado | Building Engaged Infrastructure The inaugural conference. Read from the program PDF, which prints an institution beside every presenter on the detail pages. The digital posters are one session each, and the chair's address and the two keynotes were added by hand from the overview pages. A few names are spelled differently in the presenter index than on the panel pages. | 97 | 325 |