rhetoric and composition

The 2009 North Texas Federation Rhetoric Symposium will be held February 6,
2009 at Texas A&M University-Commerce. The conference theme is “Memory:
Rhetoric’s Forgotten Canon.” Proposals may be related to the theme, but it
is not required. Please submit your 250 word (one page) proposal for the
“Classical Rhetoric: Open Topic” session by email to
rhetoric_symposium_at_tamu-commerce.edu. Include the session topic "Classical
Rhetoric: Open Topic" on the subject line of your email.

Final Deadline for submission: December 19, 2008.

NINTH ANNUAL EGSA CONFERENCE
"THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2.0"

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

January 30, 2009 ● 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC) ● 3rd Floor Salons

. . . So many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over
new . . . - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Call For Papers: Basic Composition in the Works
a composition conference sponsored by Felician College’s Department of English

February 28, 2009
Felician College, Department of English
262 South Main Street
Lodi, NJ

Looking to explore composition pedagogies in our region and develop
transformative pedagogies through conversation with our colleagues, the
Felician College English Department invites abstracts of papers for
presentation on any aspect of composition pedagogy.

Looking for chapter proposals for edited collection. Published as part of
the Hampton Press series on Research and Teaching in Rhetoric and
Composition, this edited collection works to theorize and demonstrate how
encounters with writing in the composition classroom and beyond can
intersect productively with activist rhetorical strategies and goals. By
doing so, readers will gain insights into connecting the work of
composition with grassroots social change, using rhetoric that makes
marginalized and disenfranchised voices be taken seriously in the public
arena, finding ways to actualize action as compositionists in their
communities and institutions, and linking service-learning and multimedia

9th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference
April 3-5, 2009

Love, Loss and Empire
University of Iowa

CRAFT CRITIQUE CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the
intersections among critical and creative approaches to writing both
within and beyond the academy. This year’s conference will examine the
imbrication of affect and empire and will explore the ways in which
affect blurs the lines between presence, absence, past, present, future,
coloniality, postcoloniality and other liminal or ephemeral textual and
identity positions within the increasingly globalized experience of our
present moment.