Progress of the Collaboration

 

The Start of a Century of Work

The Collaboration is working toward a set of integrated, longitudinal studies at various sites around the globe.  The map below indicates the locations of current members of the Collaboration. 

A Brief Timeline of Collaborative Work

Since the Dartmouth Institute and Conference in August 2016, the Collaboration has made slow but steady progress in coming together.  Below is a timeline of events, from Bazerman's plenary talk to today.  We are currently finishing up an edited collection, which will be available via the Perspectives on Writing Series of the WAC Clearinghouse.

  • August, 2016 - Charles Bazerman's closing plenary at the Dartmouth Institute and Conference: "The Puzzle of Conducting Research on Lifespan Development of Writing Abilities"

  • August, 2016 - Initial call for participants to the "Writing through the Lifespan" Collaborative

  • November, 2016 - End of initial call for participants

  • December, 2016 - Meeting of co-chairs for Collaboration in Santa Barbara, California

  • December, 2016 - Emails of invitations to Collaboration sent

  • January, 2017 - Schedules and agendas for March meetings planned

  • March, 2017 - First round of virtual meetings with lifespan participants

  • March, 2017 - Saturday Lifespan Brunch at CCCC in Portland, Oregon

  • May/June, 2017 - Blog posts in response to the Lifespan Writing Development Group's principles statement in RTE

  • September, 2017 - Planning for October meetings based on blog posts

  • October, 2017 - Second round of virtual meetings with lifespan participants

  • November, 2017 - Planning Conference CFP based on second round of meetings

  • December, 2017 - CFP for Lifespan Conference sent out

  • March, 2018 - Deadline for Proposals

  • May-June, 2018 - Inaugural Writing through the Lifespan Conference in Athens, Ohio

  • July, 2018 - CFP for Edited Collection - Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Steps Toward an Actionable Coherence

  • September, 2018 - Deadline for Proposals

  • October, 2018 - First Work-In-Progress Presentation on Lifespan Writing Research

  • January, 2019 - Chapters for Edited Collection Due

  • March, 2019 - First Writing through the Lifespan Special Interest Group meeting at CCCC

  • May, 2019 - Definition of “Lifespan Writing Research” Approved

  • May, 2019 - 2020 Conference CFP Announced

  • August, 2019 - 2020 Conference Proposal System Opens

  • October, 2019 - Edited Collection Submitted for Review

  • December, 2019 - Proposals for 2020 Conference Due

  • January, 2020 - Acceptances Sent for 2020 Conference

  • February, 2020 - Registration Opens for 2020 Conference

  • March, 2020 - Second Writing through the Lifespan Special Interest Group meeting at CCCC (virtual)

  • May, 2020 - Edited Collection revisions approved

  • May, 2020 - Conference confirmed rescheduled to 2021

  • July, 2020 - “WTTL Online” held - five virtual discussions from July 6-10

  • April, 2021 - Third Writing through the Lifespan Special Interest Group meeting at CCCC (virtual)

  • July, 2021 - “Expanding, Augmenting & Illustrating Lifespan Writing Research” online conference

  • December, 2021 - Lifespan Writing Research book series approved at WAC Clearinghouse

  • April, 2022 - Fourth Writing through the Lifespan Special Interest Group meeting at CCCC (virtual)

  • June, 2022 - Lifespan Strategy Sessions held online

  • February, 2023 - Fifth Writing through the Lifespan Special Interest Group meeting at CCCC

  • April, 2023 - Publication of Charles Bazerman’s How I Became the Kind of Writer I Became: An Experiment in Autoethnography, the first book in the LWR Book Series

  • April, 2024 - First Writing through the Lifespan Standing Group Panel and Business Meeting at CCCC

  • June, 2024 - Publication of Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing Research

  • July, 2024 - “Growing a Radical Research Agenda: The Recent Past and Possible Futures of Lifespan Writing Research” online conference

  • April, 2025 - Second Writing through the Lifespan Standing Group Panel and Business Meeting at CCCC

  • June, 2025 - Writing through the Lifespan Collaboration Advisory Board Launched

  • September, 2025 - Launching of the Lifespan Writing Research Salons (virtual)

  • March, 2026 - Publication of Robert P. Yagelski’s Madeline Was Our Sister: Writing, Storytelling, and Truth, the second book in the LWR Book Series

  • March, 2026 - Third Writing through the Lifespan Standing Group Panel and Business Meeting at CCCC

  • June, 2026 - CFP for the 2027 Writing through the Lifespan Conference Announced