rhetoric and composition

UPDATE: A recent cancelation has opened a space on the NEMLA panel
below. Please submit abstracts by SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 at MIDNIGHT.

Philosophy as Advanced Composition

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association
(NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

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

"Bodies in Motion"
The University of Rhode Island’s Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate
Conference.
Saturday, March 28th, 2009.
Extended Submission Deadline: Monday, December 15th, 2009.

In this paper I describe a novel form of writing pedagogy that encourages
students to select their own topics for papers based on course readings
and class discussion. The purpose behind this approach is to facilitate a
process by which students are enabled to engage in a personal way with
their writing, in effect, to "own" their own writing process. Too often,
students write for the professor, responding to prompts or assigned
topics, assuming that what they produce has to be "what the professor
wants to hear." In effect, they become alientated from what they write,
trying to conform to a standard of evaluation that is outside themselves.
Since students will be doing a great deal of writing beyond

DEADLINE EXTENDED
Call for Papers: Rhetorics of New Media
2009 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association

30th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 25-28, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency downtown

Proposals are now being accepted for the Rhetorics of New Media Area. The
term “New Media” generally refers to digital, computerized, or networked
information and communication technologies in the latter part of the 20th
century to the present.

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
“Contemporary Rhetoric: Open Topic” session by email to
rhetoric_symposium_at_tamu-commerce.edu. Include the session topic
"Contemporary Rhetoric: Open Topic" on the subject line of your email.

Final Deadline for submission: December 19, 2008.

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.

This symposium invites reconsideration of modernity, modernism and
postmodernism from literary, cultural and a wide range of
interdisciplinary aspects, aiming to broaden the current debates.

Panel proposals chaired by colleagues from different universities are
especially welcome, along with individual papers, roundtables, workshops
and performances either in English or Turkish. Please note that there
will be no translations during the symposium.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Sigma Tau Delta â€" Xi Alpha
Chapter present:

The First Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference on
Literature, Composition and Rhetoric

March 27-28, 2009

Call for Papers:

EXTENDED DEADLINE!

Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference: Faking It! Production,
Knowledge, Authenticity

The fourth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for “Faking It!
Production, Knowledge, Authenticity,” a graduate student conference to be
held February 20-22, 2009, in conjunction with the Center for 21st Century
Studies and its 2007-09 research theme “Past Knowing.”

"Bodies in Motion"
The University of Rhode Island’s Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate
Conference.
Saturday, March 28th, 2009.
Submission Deadline, Friday, November 28th, 2008.

Call for Proposals

Johnson & Wales University
12th Annual Cassola Conference on Teaching Communication
Friday, April 3, 2009

Exploring New Worlds: Teaching Communication in the 21st Century
This year we are pleased to have travel writer Rosemary Mahoney give the
keynote address at the 12th annual Cassola Conference on Teaching
Communication to be held on April 3, 2009, at Johnson & Wales University in
Providence, R.I. Mahoney is the author of several books, including Down the
Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, which appeared on the New York Times
list of 100 notable books of 2007.

Call for Papers
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On Metaphor (Literary Theory).

*****
---> Date of Publication: September 2009
---> Date of Colloquium: July 2009 (Berlin)

---> Submissions beginning NOW, ending: January, 5th 2009 (deadline)
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We welcome 15 essays of interest to those concerned with the study of 'the
metaphor' from the perspective of literary theory. We welcome papers
examining the subject based on foregrounded theoretical assumptions
illustrating the propositions with examples from fictional works.

Call for Papers
Borders and Boundaries
Graduate Conference in Literature and Rhetoric/Composition
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
March 27-28, 2009

Our third annual Graduate Conference would like to examine the ways in
which borders and boundaries enter the dialogue of literary, cultural, and
theoretical works. How are borders and boundaries established, questioned,
or deconstructed? In what ways are these delineations significant? In
what ways do they reflect the cultural geographies of particular periods
and places?