Events & Deadlines
The following events are either sponsored or co-sponsored by the Obermann Center or highlight work close to that of our mission. For the summer, we are also featuring events from some of our partners.
This Summer
Various - Write ON - a UI Writing Center program
Fall
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This issue:
Events & Deadlines
Summer at Obermann: Effect of Third-Party Presence in Conflict Perceptions
Summer at Obermann:
Impact of Linguistic Complexity on ELL’s State-Mandated Math Test Performance
Imagining Latinidades Convenes Writing Retreat
Revisit 2021-22 Obermann Series: "What Do We Mean by Research Now?"
Achievements & Recognition
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SUMMER AT OBERMANN
The Effect of Third-Party Presence in Conflict Perceptions
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Acknowledging that team conflict episodes often occur in a social context, Semin Park (Management & Entrepreneurship) and Si On Yoon (Communication Sciences & Disorders) are examining conflict behaviors and perceptions in a natural setting by leveraging a well-established social effect in neuropsychology called "the third-party observer (TPO) effect." The TPO effect, demonstrating that the mere presence of a third party can affect one’s task performance, reflects the crucial role of social contextual setting in human interaction. Park and Yoon will draw from the methodology of their disciplines to better understand the microfoundations of conflict episodes and contextual social effects on team conflict.
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SUMMER AT OBERMANN
Investigating the Impact of Linguistic Complexity on ELL’s State-Mandated Math Test Performance: DIF Analysis
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This collaboration of assessment and linguistic experts, Catherine Welch (Psychological & Quantitative Foundations) and GoMee Park (Teaching & Learning), is focused on the impact of linguistic complexity on the performance of English language learners (ELLs) on a state-mandated math test. Unlike previous research in this area, which only compared one large group of ELLs with non-ELLs, this study incorporates the English proficiency test results to group ELLs based on their English proficiency level.
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Imagining Latinidades Convenes Writing Retreat |
From June 13 to 17, 2022, the Imagining Latinidades Mellon Sawyer Seminar convened 10 faculty and graduate students in Latina/x/o Studies at the Obermann Center. Participants from across the UI and local colleges came together to write, work, and craft dynamic lesson plans for the Imagining Latinidades website.
"Summertime often shows up as a moment for getting lots of writing and research done and, at the same time, for rest and replenishment," says co-organizer Naomi Greyser (American Studies, GWSS, English, UI). While those aims can feel contradictory at times, this retreat was filled with reflective immersion, stimulating workshops, time spent outdoors, shared meals, and much laughter.
Greyser and Aimee Carrillo Rowe (Communication Studies, California State University) engaged participants in guided morning writing sessions and afternoon rhetoric seminars, where faculty and graduate students offered feedback on their own emergent scholarship in Latina/x/o Studies. Sara Nasrollahian and Eva Lattner (UI Center for Teaching) led after-lunch pedagogy sessions.
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Achievements & Recognition
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Didn't have time to listen? Tune into our 2021-22 series
What Do We Mean by Research Now?
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Creating Culturally Attuned Teams for Wicked Challenges (4/22/22) - Two “use-inspired” research groups reflect on strategies for creating new kinds of cross-disciplinary teams and the need to adapt metrics and approaches to evaluation in order to acknowledge the complexity of radical interdisciplinarity.
The Art(s) of Inquiry and Activism (3/29/22) - Artists, performers, proponents of arts-based interdisciplinary research, curators, museum directors, and artist-activists reflect on the arts as research and how universities can support, celebrate, and reward artists when they turn from galleries to their communities.
Collaborative Approaches to Understanding Memory and Minds (2/7/22) - How do scientists gather and sustain teams to understand infinitely complex mysteries—in this case, memory and the mind? How are departments, colleges, and disciplinary orgs adapting to the need for such deeply interdisciplinary teams?
What Do We Mean by Research in the Humanities Now? (9/17/21) - Directors of four humanities centers offer perspectives on emerging humanities research questions, methods, and formats, and the challenges these pose to current metrics, reviews, and reviewers.
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