Join Academic Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC) for an online discussion!

AWAC's International Collaborations Committee (ICC) is excited to announce the date for our January 2026 AWAC Listens Discussion: Tuesday, January 13, at 10 am EST/ 4 pm CET (9

am CST, 8 am MST, 7 am PST).

AWAC Listens is a space where we aim to create room for dialogue and collegial conversation about WAC, writing scholarship, and international collaboration. Both AWAC members and non-members are welcome to participate! (Not yet an AWAC member? Click here to learn more.)

What will be discussed?

For the January 2026 AWAC Listens event, information will be shared from the European

Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) 2025 pre-conference event in Braga, Portugal, where a World Café event was launched in response to the conference theme "Multilingual Academic Literacies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of AI." The goal was to capture how our community's thinking evolves as AI technologies and multilingual contexts continue to reshape academic writing practices for writing teachers and writing researchers.

Overall, the responses from participants who discussed the themes during the World Café in

Braga revealed the following initial insights: some emerging themes are based on well-established theoretical foundations, while others are supported by slowly accumulating

empirical evidence. Conversely, some still primarily rely on practitioner experience and

anecdotal observation. As certain narratives about AI and multilingualism in our field gain

popularity, conversations need to continue to examine which claims are becoming dominant

despite insufficient supporting evidence.The goal of this AWAC Listens event is to discuss responses from the World Café and to open dialogue on AI and multimodal academic literacies.

When is the discussion?

Our synchronous conversation on Zoom will take place on Tuesday, January 13, at 10 am

EST/ 4 pm CET (9 am CST, 8 am MST, 7 am PST).

Link for the Zoom meeting: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/6027586749

Questions about the ICC Committee or this event?

Contact Whitney Jordan Adams (wadams@berry.edu) or Magnus Gustafsson

(magusta@chalmers.se). We look forward to meeting, listening, and discussing with you!