Writing Retreat:
Writing Dangerously
Dates: February 26 and 27, 2024
Time: 9:50 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET (*In-person attendees can arrive at 9:30 a.m. each day; see agenda)
Hybrid: Center for Urban Education Auditorium (Posvar 4310) and Zoom
Co-sponsored by CUE and the Kinloch Commons for Critical Leadership and Pedagogy
“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I’ve always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”
—Create Dangerously, Edwidge Danticat
Facilitators:
- Khirsten L. Scott, CUE Faculty Leadership Fellow for Writing and Inquiry & Director of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project
- Sabina Vaught, Director of the Kinloch Commons for Critical Pedagogy and Leadership
- Chelsea Jimenez, Urban Education Doctoral Student
Please engage with the following readings prior to the retreat:
- Required: Edwidge Danticat, "Creating Dangerously" (view PDF) | (watch on YouTube)
- Recommended: Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-event” (view PDF)
- Suggested viewing: "The Kingdom of this World, Reimagined" exhibit at the University Art Gallery (Frick Fine Arts Building)
Day 1 – Monday, February 26
- 9:30 am: Continental breakfast
- 9:50 am: Zoom meeting launches for virtual attendees
- 10 am: Opening remarks and framing from Dr. Khirsten L. Scott
- 10:30 am–12:30 pm: Writing
- 12:30–1:30 pm: Lunch and writing conversation
- 1:30–5 pm: Writing
Day 2 – Tuesday, February 27
- 9:30 am: Continental breakfast
- 9:50 am: Zoom meeting launches for virtual attendees
- 10 am: Opening remarks and framing from Dr. Sabina Vaught
- 10:30 am–12:30 pm: Writing
- 12:30–1:30 pm: Lunch and writing conversation
- 1:30–5 pm: Writing
