The University of Evansville’s annual Chutney Literary Conference is set for April 8-9 on UE’s campus. UE students will be presenting critical papers, and will have the opportunity to win awards for their efforts.

The event begins Friday, April 8, at 7:00 p.m., with the Melvin M. Peterson Literary Forum featuring guest speaker Matthew Bolton. He will be discussing “Eliot’s iPod: Reading The Waste Land in the Information Age.”

Bolton is head of the Upper Seven Hills School in Cincinnati, Ohio, He earned his PhD in English from the City University of New York Graduate Center, his BA degree from State University of New York at Binghamton, and his MS degree from Fordham University Graduate School of Education. Bolton received the T.S. Eliot Society’s Fathman Young Scholar Award for research related to his dissertation.

Bolton’s publications include chapters in the books Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory and The Waste Land at 90, as well as chapters in books in the Critical Insights series.  He has published articles and reviews in such journals as the Yeats Eliot Review, Dickens Quarterly, and Victorian Studies. He has also served as a panelist for post-performance discussions of a Broadway production of Eliot’s The Cocktail Party.

The conference ends on Saturday, April 9, with student panels planned for 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., and noon in Rooms 271 and 272 in the Schroeder School of Business Building. The Grabill and Klinger Writing Prizes will also be awarded at this time.

For more information on UE’s annual Chutney Literary Conference, call 812-488-2963.

The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation is hosting its eighth annual eRevolution Conference July 11 – 13 at North High School in Evansville. Along with more than 200 concurrent sessions and workshops and 15 guest speakers, the EVSC has invited Robert Marzano and Michael Toth as keynote speakers for this year’s conference.

The three-day conference is open to anyone and draws approximately 800 educators each year. It helps educators of all levels enhance their ability to provide quality instruction through technology.

More than 15 guest speakers were invited this year, including Amelia Gambetti, liaison for the Reggio Children International in Italy; Bill Ferriter, sixth grade science teacher in Raleigh, NC and designer of professional development courses nationwide; and Hedda Sharapan, script consultant for Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and employee of The Fred Rogers Company since the very first day of taping for Mister Roger’s Neighborhood.

Bob Marzano and Michael Toth will deliver a keynote address on Monday, July 11 for conference attendees. Marzano is a leading name in education. He is cofounder and CEO of Marzano Research in Colorado. He is the author of more than 30 books and 150 articles on topics such as instruction, assessment, writing and implementing standards, cognition, effective leadership and school intervention.

Michael Toth is founder and CEO of Learning Sciences International, iObservation and Learning Sciences Marzano Center. Formerly the president of the National Center for the Profession of Teaching, a university faculty member, and director of research and development grants, Mr. Toth transformed his university research and development team into a company that is focused on leadership and teacher professional growth and instructional effectiveness correlated to student achievement gains.

Individuals who are unable to attend the eRevolution Conference have the opportunity to hear the keynote address on Monday, July 11, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at North High School.

The conference is $30 for EVSC educators and $60 for non-EVSC through April 16. The price includes all three days of the conference, lunch and a light breakfast. The conference also allows educators to earn up to 21 hours of professional development credits.

For complete information and to register, visit www.evscsicats.com/erevolution.

The eRev Conference is one of many across the state to be part of the 2016 Summer of eLearning through the Indiana Department of Education.