rhetoric and composition

**The deadline for submissions to the literature and psychology session
of the SCMLA has been extended to Friday, March 27th.**

Submissions are currently being accepted for the Literature and
Psychology session of the 66th annual South Central Modern Language
Association conference, October 29th through the 31st in Baton Rouge,
LA. In keeping with this year's theme of "Continuity and Displacements",
we're seeking papers that explore psychological continuity within a
text. Texts that explore displacement, trauma studies, and anxiety will
be given preference, but submissions on any number of topics are highly
encouraged.

Focus:
In recent years, many schools have added sustainable, green practices to
their mission statements. Some have also added course requirements that
help students develop an ecological perspective while others have changed
operations to limit their institution’s impact on the environment. Writing
teachers have often contributed to this charge by integrating readings and
writing activities that help students better understand their relationship
to the environment. These teachers believe in the shared responsibility for
helping students come to terms with environmental crises and fostering
biospheric literacy. This approach to literacy education often includes an

Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative sessions are now
being accepted for the 2009 Feminisms and Rhetorics conference to be held
at Michigan State University October 7-10, 2009. Proposal submissions are
due by Sunday, February 1, 2009. To submit a proposal, please visit our
websites at www.femrhet.cwshrc.org and http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/~femrhet/

"Bodies in Motion"
The University of Rhode Island’s Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate
Conference
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation Ecology, Duke
University
Extended Submission Deadline: Sunday, February 1, 2009

Waiting Time
New York University
Department of Comparative Literature
Graduate Student Conference
April 16-19, 2009

Keynote Speaker: Marshall Berman

Waiting Time

What are we waiting for? What awaits us? While often dismissed as a period of wastefulness or
lost time, waiting may also intensify experience and become a condition in which to consider
questions of modernity, aesthetic process, politics, erotics and the tempos of everyday life.

Waiting Time
New York University
Department of Comparative Literature
Graduate Student Conference
April 17-19, 2009

Keynote Speaker: Marshall Berman

Waiting Time

What are we waiting for? What awaits us? While often dismissed as a period of wastefulness or
lost time, waiting may also intensify experience and become a condition in which to consider
questions of modernity, aesthetic process, politics, erotics and the tempos of everyday life.

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

Miami University English Graduate and Adjunct Association's 6th Annual
Symposium
"Stepping Out: Academics, Civic Engagement, and Activism"

RICTE Spring Conference Call for Papers
The Literate & Diverse Classroom: A Work in Progress
Saturday, March 28, 2009
New England Institute of Technology
2480 Post Road, Warwick, RI

RICTE Spring Conference 2009
Keynote Speaker, Padma Venkatraman

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.