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The fields of medical and health humanities often aim to intervene in socially embedded systems of care and advance health justice. This roundtable explores ways to work toward that goal through pedagogy, research, and community partnership.

UniNewsletter is a new digital magazine dedicated to sharing higher ed news and research innovations, as well as establishing connections between diverse global educational institutions. We publish general issues quarterly (September; December; February; June) with additional special editions on specific topics. Each issue we engage academic, industry, leadership, student  and more voices to foster intercultural dialogue and showcase developments, pedagogies, and campus life at some of the world’s most eminent universities.

This is a call for participation in a roundtable on ChatGPT and teaching persuasive communication at the 56th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention in Philadelphia, PA, USA on March 6-9, 2025. 

This roundtable will examine practical strategies for integrating ChatGPT (or any GenAI bot/software) into rhetoric/persuasive communication classes (i.e., writing and/or speaking persuasively). We are particularly interested in receiving proposals that demonstrate how colleagues implement any of the following strategies:

Due to some unavoidable circumstances, Osmosis 2024 is hereby postponed. Further updates will be published duly.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Osmosis 2024: Sustainability and the 5Ps for a Comprehensive Future

Appel à propositions / Call for Submissions : Numéro spécial pour une édition pérenne

Read in English

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025 (Pacific Time)

Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)

Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)

CFP: Special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on “Cultural AI”

Edited by Richard Jean So and Aarthi Vadde

Deadline for proposals: November 30, 2024

Violence in elections is a critical issue that threatens the very fabric of democracy. To address this challenge, we are compiling a comprehensive book titled "Democratic Harmony: Techniques for Eliminating Violence in Elections." This book aims to explore various strategies, approaches, and techniques that can promote peaceful and harmonious elections, ultimately leading to stronger democracies.

We invite researchers, scholars, practitioners, and experts in the field to contribute chapters to this important publication. The book will serve as a valuable resource for policymakers, electoral stakeholders, academics, and anyone interested in fostering democratic harmony and ensuring violence-free elections.

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In her 2020 article entitled “Communities of care,” Talia Schaffer reminds readers that even when participants “did not share a geographic space,” the communities of those “virtual groups…cobbled together in coronavirus time” were, to all of us, of invaluable importance and “realness,” nevertheless. Thus, this roundtable hopes to promote conversation(s) that showcase and contemplate ways of enduringly enriching both virtual and in-person academic communities, especially amongst graduate students; to continually encourage communications and collaborations between students with related research interests within the same, as well as different, institutional settings.

Possible topics for discussion might be related to:

While graduate school has long been a space for cultivating generations of academics, researchers, and intellectuals, it has never been exempt from the dynamics of power that underlie the workings of the University. Recent strides at improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in graduate school—for example in the form of the rise in number of sociopolitically- and culturally-cognizant programs, the push towards increasing international student populations, and the rise of grassroots movements such as labour unions to improve representation—belie the reality that universities remain set up according to ideological lines that facilitate the success of some graduate students while (re)producing the inequities experienced by others.

This roundtable session will discuss mindfulness practices that instructors of writing and literature can incorporate into classrooms, and it will focus especially on the implications of mindfulness for the humanities and for its/their roles in education and society in honoring human, cultural, and global diversity in all its dimensions, enacting equity and inclusivity, and affecting change.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) serve as pivotal cultural and educational institutions, fostering academic excellence and community engagement. However, within the HBCU workplace, Black women often navigate complex dynamics shaped by pervasive stereotypes and societal expectations.

Centering belonging, identity, and equity in our hiring practices requires potentially profound changes within the profession and across our institutions. Undoubtedly, departments, service-based offices, and institutions may struggle to identify the kinds of changes that can be made and may meet resistance to these changes. This collection aims to identify key points in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies’ (RCWS) hiring practices that can be adjusted or revised to enhance the inclusivity and equity of the job market experience for both applicants and hiring committee members.

Teaching English in the Two-Year College and College EnglishSymposium“Equity and Material Conditions in Access-Intensive College English Programs”I feel like what we do and who we are is overlooked.

—Jason C. Evans, 2023 TYCA Conference Chair's Address

The perception that the work occurring in two-year colleges and reports of it in TETYC are relevant only to those spaces means that the new knowledge the journal offers can be overlooked, even when it clearly contributes to a larger disciplinary conversation. 

—Holly Hassel, Mark Reynolds, Jeff Sommers and Howard Tinberg, “Editorial Perspectives on Teaching English in the Two-Year College,” p. 332