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Conferences and Calls for Papers Here are all the CFPs sent out to the English graduate student body at UNCG, listed in order of submission deadline, with the earliest approaching dates at the top of the list. If you would like to submit a CFP to be posted on this site, please email egsa@uncg.edu. |
For a longer listing of CFPs in the English field, check out the UPenn site.
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Registration is now open for the 2010 Feminist Theory Workshop organized by Duke University's Women's Studies Program. This coming year's Workshop will be held March 19 and 20, 2010 at the Sanford School of Public Policy and will feature keynotes by:
Rey Chow, Visiting Professor in Literature (Duke University) and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University; Coco Fusco, a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for Design; Catherine Mills, a Lecturer in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney in Australia; Robyn Wiegman, Professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University
As in the past the Workshop and all meals during the two-day event are free of charge. Please look over our website at http://web.duke.edu/womstud/theory2010.html as we've made some changes to the schedule in response to your comments which we hope will make the event more meaningful to attendees.
Please don't hesitate to contact myself ( Lillian.Spiller@duke.edu ) or Melanie Mitchell ( Melanie.Mitchell@duke.edu ) if you have questions.
We look forward to seeing you all in March!
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Call for Papers: Rhetorics of Reason and Restraint: Stoic Speech from Antiquity to the Present
2010 American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium
Set within rhetoric's histories have been consistent cautionary voices, warning rhetors and their audiences of the dangers of rhetorical excesses, enthusiasms, and irrationalities. Stoicism has represented in its ethical ideal, if not always explicitly in its theories, such a cautionary voice—and a major one, influencing directly or indirectly Cicero and Augustine, Lipsius and Hobbes, Wollstonecraft and Lincoln, as well as contemporary ethics of criticism and ideals of public discourse.
The American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR) invites paper proposals for its 2010 Symposium, "Rhetorics of Reason and Restraint: Stoic Speech from Antiquity to the Present." The Symposium will be held May 27-28, 2010, at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, immediately prior to the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America Conference.
Plenary speakers at the ASHR Symposium will be Janet Atwill of the University of Tennessee, James Darsey of Georgia State University, and Lawrence Green of the University of Southern California.
ASHR invites proposal covering historical as well as more contemporary subjects. Although papers on all aspects of rhetoric's history are invited, we especially welcome submissions that speak to issues related to the theme of Stoicism (e.g. reason, restraint, cosmopolitanism, philosophy's relationship to rhetoric).
One-page single-spaced abstracts are due in electronic form (as .doc or .rtf files) to Ned O'Gorman at nogorman@illinois.edu by 9pm Eastern Daylight Time on November 30, 2009. Abstracts will be competitively reviewed. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by December 31, 2009.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PROPOSALS
38th Annual National Conference
April 8-10, 2010 :: L’Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C.
WHO’S COUNTS & WHO COUNTING?
The National Association for Ethnic Studies invites abstracts/proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or media productions from people in all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, business, social sciences, humanities, science and education on politics, community and ethnicity. How do classifications of race and ethnicity define our lives? How are they part of our individual and collective thinking? How do they become statistics? In contrast, how do issues of race and ethnicity defy demarcation? How do race and ethnicity challenge the interests and power struggles implicit in shaping definitions?
The conference will create a lively forum for the discussion of issues related to ethnic communities, including, but not limited to the following: the 2008 presidential election; American Indian federal recognition; sovereignty and recognition in a global economy; counting in the 2010 census; undocumented workers; LGBTQ rights; unincorporated communities; immigration at the local level; census and racial/ethnic identities; human trafficking; negotiating dual citizenships; limited citizenships; redistricting; census data and its impact on resource access; higher education; student loans; citizenship; health care by the numbers; philanthropy and ethnic communities; defining minorities and majorities; affirmative action issues; defining and supporting art; women’s resources; economic ramifications of census results.
Two-hundred-fifty-word abstracts/proposals should be submitted by December 1, 2009, which relate to any aspect of the conference theme, with the participant’s institutional affiliation and mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The abstract/proposal must indicate whether the presentation is an individual paper or a complete panel presentation and if A/V equipment is needed.
All program participants must pay full conference registration fees and 2010 NAES membership dues.
Abstracts must be submitted electronically to: http://www.ethnicstudies.org/conference.htm Select the “Submit Abstract” link to proceed to the online submission form.
NOTE: A separate abstract must be submitted for each presenter (even co-authored papers, roundtable presentations and pre-arranged panels) with complete contact information. Pre-arranged panels must include at least three presenters/speakers, but no more than five and must provide their own panel chairs. Panels with fewer than three or more than five presenters will not be considered.
Notifications on proposals will be mailed in late fall/early winter 2009.
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Call for Papers:
Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/Association canadienne de redactologie (formerly CATTW/ACPRTS)
Connecting Writing Studies: Social networks, Interdisciplinary strategies, Technological innovations
The 2nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing / Association canadienne de redactologie (CASDW/ACR)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 29, 30, 31 2010
We invite papers on all aspects of writing studies for the 2nd annual conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing, the largest gathering of writing studies scholars in Canada.
In particular, we invite papers that address the theme of the Congress of the Humanities, “Connected Understanding” (http://www.congress2010.ca/;http://www.congress2010.ca/index_fr.php). We invite papers that examine all aspects of connecting writing studies from the social to the technological, the disciplinary to the interdisciplinary, the historical connections with rhetorical studies to the future connections to digital communication studies.
Timothy Leary once wrote that “The PC is the LSD of the 1990s.” If the PC was the LSD of the 1990s, what metaphor can describe the second generation of the internet that we now live with and the explosion in social networking that has come with it? What implications does this technology have for writing and communication in the networked environment we live in? We invite talks that explore the implications of the digital revolution for all aspects of the interdisciplinary field we call Writing Studies. We welcome explorations of how these technologies have affected research production and consumption, explorations of how researchers connect with people outside the research community, and explorations of how our interdiscipline connects internationally.
In addition, we invite papers that draw on work in genre studies, rhetorical theory, composition studies, engineering communication, writing centre theory and practice, and, of course, professional and technical writing research and practice.
The Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/Association canadienne de redactologie (CASDW/ACR; formerly Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (CATTW)/L’Association canadienne de professeurs de rédaction technique et scientifique (ACPRTS)) invites proposals for its interdisciplinary international conference “Turn on, tune in, reach out: Connecting Writing Studies,” to be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from Saturday, May 29 – Monday, May 31, 2010 in collaboration with the 2010 Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS).
Conference Objectives: For this purpose, the conference organizers invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, or workshops that examine writing practices in varying academic, workplace, and global communities. Proposals are also encouraged to examine the implications of these changes for the study and teaching of academic writing, professional writing, and communication.
While we encourage presenters to propose papers from all of these locations in the academy, we are particularly interested in presentations that investigate the conference theme: What role does technology play in your teaching, research, or community work? How does your academic work connect with your teaching or research activities? If you teach or research in a writing centre, how do you connect with students and faculty from across your institution? If you teach or research outside of Canada, how do you connect the work you do in your country with the international community of writing scholars? How can learning about current research in other countries spark new ideas or perspectives on research currently being done in Canada? Conversely, in what ways can research conducted in Canada contribute to the development of writing studies in the global community? How can the Canadian community of scholars involved in writing studies collaborate with scholars from other nations? How can we connect writing studies scholarship to the discourse that surrounds global issues, such as environmental issues, war, poverty, economic development?
Presentation and Proposal Formats: The conference organizers value diversity in approaches, perspectives and presentation formats, including 15-20 minute individual papers, 90-minute panels of 3 - 5 speakers, roundtables, or 90-minute workshops.
For individual presentations and panels, we are interested in both research reports and state-of-the-art papers that engage the literature and theories to derive new research questions, agendas, and directions. In either case, proposals must include the research question to be addressed, its significance for advancing research in the field, the conceptual framework and methods or approach used to address the question, and key findings or directions as well as their implications for practice, teaching, or future research. While the proposal itself can be up to 500 words, proposals for individual papers must include a summary of 150 words (+references).
Panel proposals must include a brief (<100 words) description of the panel, its rationale and objectives, as well as brief descriptions of up to 150 words (+ references) of each paper to be presented and discussed on the panel.
Roundtable proposals must raise a provocative, but critical question for the study and teaching of writing, specify the names and contributions of at least 5 individuals who have agreed to participate in the roundtable. Proposals must also outline the rationale for the roundtable, its objectives, and the suggested discussion points. Proposals should not exceed 150 words (+references).
Workshop proposals must provide a 150-word description (+references) of the workshop, its rationale, objectives, research base, facilitators, procedures, and logistical requirements (e.g., computer labs, software, hardware, etc.).
Opportunities for submitting papers to peer-reviewed scholarly publications will be available (more information to follow).
Deadline: December 1, 2009
Where to Submit Proposals: Please email proposals with your complete contact information to the program co-chair, Roger Graves, at casdw@ualberta.ca
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Call for Proposals: Graduate Symposium in Communication--James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
“Communication in the 21st Century: Obstacles and Opportunities” -- Friday, April 16, 2010
The School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University welcomes proposals from graduate students in any discipline for a one-day symposium.
The symposium will explore all facets of communication; from the way it is taught in the classroom to the way it shapes our society. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): applications of communication theories to 21st-century communication practice, communication and new media, communication and media convergence, visual communication, multi-modal and multimedia communication (visual, verbal, and audio), 21st-century theory and practice of web communication, intercultural communication in a globalized world, 21st-century technical and scientific communication: issues, problems, perspectives.
Formats for presentations will include 15-minute panel papers, research posters, and multimedia displays.
The keynote speaker for the symposium is Dr. James Dubinsky, Director of the Center for Student Engagement and Community Partnerships at Virginia Tech and the former director of their professional writing program. He is the president of the Association for Business Communication and the editor of the volume Teaching Technical Communication.
Proposals for presentations must be submitted electronically as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format by Monday, December 7 to kleinmj@jmu.edu. Please indicate which type of format presentation your proposal addresses.
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Mitch Frye & Andrew Banecker, Co-Chairs
2010 Mardi Gras Conference at LSU
For the past two decades, Louisiana State University’s English Graduate Student Association has hosted the Mardi Gras Conference, a symposium on literature organized and attended by graduate students. In recent years, the conference has featured keynote speakers as distinguished as Terry Eagleton and Cathy Davidson, and it has attracted graduate presenters from around the world. Our theme for this year’s conference is “Regarding Iteration: Narratives of Imitation and Innovation.” We wish to discuss how the interplay of repetition and difference has affected literature throughout history. The 2010 keynote address will be delivered by Brian McHale, Distinguished Humanities Professor of English at Ohio State University. We invite our fellow graduate students to present papers, chair panels, and celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Mardi Gras Conference February 11 and 12 of the coming year. This two-day event also offers attendees the opportunity to enjoy the festivities of Louisiana’s Mardi Gras season. Email proposals of 250 words or less to mitchfrye@gmail.com. All submissions are due by December 20, 2009. Please visit our blog at mardigras2010.blogspot.com for more details.
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Truth and Beauty in John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.
Fifteen-minute papers exploring faith and uncertainty in Shanley’s prize-winning play or his 2009 film adaptation of Doubt are invited for a peer-reviewed session in the Christian Scholars’ Conference at Lipscomb University June 3-5, 2010. Papers may address any aspect of faith, truth, or beauty in the play. How does one construct (or deconstruct) truths about faith or observations, guilt or innocence, authority or evidence? What happens to truth and faith when perceptions of reality clash? Where can we find beauty in a world full of guilt and preconceptions? When does righteousness corrupt? Please send abstract exploring these themes or related questions to Lisa Siefker Bailey at lsiefker@iupuc.edu no later than December 21, 2009. For more information on the conference, see http://csc.lipscomb.edu/default.asp?SID=194 .
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CFP: A Special issue of READER: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy: Disciplinary Ways of Teaching Reading in English Studies--New Extended Deadline: January 15, 2010
No matter what our specialty or field of English, we all require students to read. But what exactly does it mean to read well in literature? In critical theory? In composition and rhetoric? In creative writing? In linguistics or English education? How do we teach students to do this specialized kind of reading in the areas and courses that we teach? The aim of this special issue of Reader is to spark more conversation between specialists in different areas of English concerning the purposes for reading, the development of reading expertise, and teaching of reading in their fields.
Possible ideas (suggestions only):
- What is one book, article, essay, story, or poem that you have found helpful for teaching today’s students how to do the kind of reading your course or field requires?
- How do you teach students to read specific kinds of texts in your field; for example, historical texts, contemporary fiction, poetry, essays, theory, research, visual texts, or even “textbooks”?
- How do you teach students to deal with “difficulty” in reading in your area of English specialization or in an English course you regularly teach?
- What kinds of assumptions, behaviors, or habits of mind about reading do students often bring to an (introductory, advanced, or graduate) English course that you regularly teach that you have to “complicate” or help them “unlearn”? How do you do it?
- How do you teach reading in courses whose primary purpose is writing? (For example, composition, creative writing, technical writing, etc.)?
- How do you prepare graduate teaching assistants who come from other areas of English (or other disciplines) to teach reading in composition classes?
MLA citation. Essays generally run about 20-25 double-spaced pages.
Please email inquiries and completed manuscripts to: Donna Qualley djq@wwu.edu English Department, Western Washington University, 516 High Street Bellingham, WA 98225-9055--360-650-3256/360-738-7783
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The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR) invites you to submit proposals for papers to be presented at its annual conference, to be held inconjunction with Congress 2010 at Concordia University, Montréal. Tentative dates for the CSSR conference are June 2-4, 2010 (confirmation will be posted on the CSSR website: www.cssr-scer.ca).
Deadline to submit proposals: January 8, 2010.
SPECIAL SESSION: RHETORICS OF THE EXCEPTION, THE EXCEPTIONAL, EXCEPTIONALITY, Chair: Michael Purves-Smith
Scholars are invited to propose papers on the topos of the exception and exceptionality. When and how does "exception" create a rhetorical space? How does rhetoric depend on a dialectic of the expected as opposed to the exceptional? Is there then a tension between endorsing the unusual and distancing oneself from something when we make or take exception? The answer might include any rhetorical strategies that may be described or defined in connection with “to except.” The subject may encompass both exceptional rhetoric and the exceptional rhetor.
A few possible approaches:
• What persuasive strategies are available to those who would rise in the court of public opinion when everyone and everything is seen to be exceptional?
• Is the appeal to the exceptional, pervasive in the realm of advertising, the last resort of rhetoric in the midst of a landscape of communication dominated by "twitter?"
• What is the rhetorical impact of American exceptionalism? Do we have permission to take it for granted and is there any parallel between it and the exceptionality implied by Quebec as a distinct society or special status for aboriginal people?
• Finally, is the subject of exception contained by the classical topos of difference?
OPEN SESSIONS ON RHETORIC
Papers concerning more general aspects of rhetoric are always welcome:
• Rhetorical theory
• Rhetorical criticism
• History of rhetoric
• Rhetoric in popular culture
• Media communication
• Discourse analysis
• Rhetoric of political and social discourse
• Pedagogy of communication
• Rhetoric and the media
• Sociolinguistics and pedagogy
• Semiotics
• Professional and technical communication
HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL
Your proposal (up to 300 words) may be submitted in English or French. It will be printed in the program if your project is accepted. Please include the title of your paper, and indicate clearly methodology, the texts or phenomena under scrutiny, and the central importance of rhetoric to the inquiry. Work from various disciplines and from across all historical periods is welcome. If you need electronic equipment for your presentation, please send a request along with your proposal.
Mail or e-mail your proposal to Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed. If using e-mail, please type your proposal directly into the e-mail, or attach it as a digital file in one of the following formats (.doc, .pdf, .rtf, .txt).
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DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS: January 8, 2010.
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In order to present a paper, you must be a member of the CSSR. Membership fees should be paid before the presentation of the paper. Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes.
GRADUATE STUDENT SUBMISSIONS
Graduate students (MA or PhD) are welcome to submit proposals to the CSSR annual conference. However, in an effort to mentor graduate students and guide them through the scholarly conference experience, we ask that graduate students meet two additional requirements to be eligible to present at the annual conference:
1) clearly mark on your proposal that you are currently a graduate student (this designation will make you eligible for a reduced membership fee for the Society, with valid student ID);
2) should your proposal be accepted, submit a draft of your paper one month prior to the conference (this submission deadline will encourage you to plan ahead for the conference and will allow members of the CSSR executive to offer you feedback or advice for your conference presentation, if necessary).
We recognize that some graduate students will require less guidance than others, but we wish to extend a helping hand to all. Graduate students who fail to meet these requirements will be ineligible to present at the annual conference.
Contact:
Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed, CSSR President
c/o Faculty of Communication and Culture
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
president (at) cssr-scer.ca
www.cssr-scer.ca
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Call for Papers: Locating George Herbert: Family, Place, Traditions--October 13-16, 2011--Gregynog Conference Center, Newtown, Powys, Wales
The George Herbert Society announces its next international, interdisciplinary conference, which will seek to locate Herbert’s origins and earliest influences: in the gifted and competitive Herbert family, in the Welsh border country around his Montgomery birthplace, and in the literary, spiritual, and aesthetic traditions of Celtic culture. We also will locate Herbert’s legacy among other Welsh poets, including Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, Dylan Thomas, and R. S. Thomas.
We will meet at the University of Wales’s up-to-date yet historic and tranquil Gregynog (gruh GAN ogk) Conference Center, nestled among the rolling hills and fields of Powys in mid-Wales. Our conference activities will include plenary speakers and poetry readings, a rich range of paper panels and discussion sessions, a poetry competition, a choral concert, and an optional worship service. We also will visit the Herbert family monuments in St. Nicholas Church, Montgomery, the Herbert family castles of Montgomery and Powis, the workings of the Gregynog Press, and we will enjoy a supper in the historic Montgomery Town Hall. And there will be plenty of time for quiet walks, convivial teas and drinks, and shared meals in the Gregynog dining room. For those wishing to add a few days to their British travels, there also will be opportunities to visit nearby Ludlow Castle, site of the first performance of John Milton’s Comus, and Salisbury/Bemerton in England, where Herbert ministered and wrote for the last three years of his life.
We invite proposals for papers and for full panels from literary scholars, historians, and theologians who seek to discuss Herbert from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and especially in relation to issues of family, place, and Celtic cultural traditions. We also invite proposals for creative presentations involving music, dramatic performance, and the visual arts. We particularly encourage those who wish to propose panels linked by attention to a common theme, poem, site, or setting.
More specifically, we welcome paper and panel proposals on topics such as but not limited to the following: Herbert’s poetic debt to nearby buildings and landscapes; questions of border politics and cultural intersection in late medieval and Tudor-Stuart Wales; Herbert’s relation to Welsh language and poetic forms, and to Celtic spirituality; Herbert’s near family connections, especially to his father Richard Herbert, his mother Magdelen Newport Herbert, and to his brothers Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury and Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels; Herbert’s connections to his cousins and later kinsmen the Earls of Pembroke, Montgomery, and Powis; and his debt to and influence on Welsh poets.
We invite e-mail submissions. For 15-20-minute papers, send a 250-word titled abstract; for a complete 3-4-person panel, send an overall title and individual 250-word titled abstracts for each paper; for creative presentations, please send a 250-word description indicating any other introductory materials (pdf’s, CD’s, DVD’s) that the conference program committee might then request for evaluation. Please indicate Wales 2011 in your subject line and include a 1-page CV giving an e-mail and a regular mail address at which you can be reached; and indicate any expected audio-visual needs (including special software needs)—Gregynog Conference Center is fully equipped for PowerPoint presentations and wireless Internet access.
Check the George Herbert site at UNCG's English page for information about previous Herbert conferences and upcoming details about the 2011 conference.
Send submissions for Wales 2011 to: Helen Wilcox (helen.wilcox@bangor.ac.uk) and Christopher Hodgkins (HERBCONF@UNCG.EDU )
Due date for submissions: February 22, 2011