DISCUSSION with Eli Goldblatt: Community Writing in a Time of Violence 425 What role does writing play in responding to fears and disillusionment that can emerge after being inundated with reports of mass violence? How can we help communities that feel shaken by violence on the streets or violent images projected on to them by others? How can people respond through writing to disturbing scenes they see either in the media or in their daily lives? How should literacy leaders respond to the cheapening of public discourse and attacks on verifiable reporting? This session brings together people concerned about the effects of the near-daily reports of mass violence, threats against women and minority communities, public insult exchanges, and social polarization. No speaker can tell us how to proceed; we will write, read, and talk together, sharing responses that support both communities and individuals in moments of distress.
This session has a title in the program but no listed people in the corpus.
Source
Program as the Coalition for Community Writing published it. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conferences.
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.
Cite as: Conference on Community Writing. “DISCUSSION with Eli Goldblatt: Community Writing in a Time of Violence 425 What role does writing play in responding to fears and disillusionment that can emerge after being inundated with reports of mass violence? How can we help communities that feel shaken by violence on the streets or violent images projected on to them by others? How can people respond through writing to disturbing scenes they see either in the media or in their daily lives? How should literacy leaders respond to the cheapening of public discourse and attacks on verifiable reporting? This session brings together people concerned about the effects of the near-daily reports of mass violence, threats against women and minority communities, public insult exchanges, and social polarization. No speaker can tell us how to proceed; we will write, read, and talk together, sharing responses that support both communities and individuals in moments of distress..” 2017 Conference Program, Boulder, Colorado, session B10. Via Community Writing Program Reader, November 02, 2026.