rhetoric and composition

The international journal Thaumàzein will devote a special issue to the topic of philosophers’ philosophical writing.

Is a philosopher’s way of expounding his conception in some ways the content of his philosophy? Does an author’s style reflect his thinking? If so, how? In other words, can we regard the variety of expressions of philosophy as literature?

While we sometimes feel like life is moving around us rather than with us, it is essential to take a moment and consider how we got where we are. Over time, attitudes, opinions, and feelings have shifted along with what we choose to carry with us. To avoid leaving important things behind or risk forgetting them altogether, it is time to ask ourselves why we leave certain things behind and what it means when we do.

Modernism & Writing Pedagogy Roundtable

Call for Abstracts – 100-150 words

Deadline: May 24, 2023, 11.59 EST, to lhartm13@jhu.edu

Organizer: Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Johns Hopkins University

3-4 slots available

In the spirit of the roundtable organized and chaired by Nissa Ren Cannon in MSA Portland entitled, “Modernism in the Writing Classroom,” this roundtable recognizes the suitability of modernist texts for writing classrooms of all sorts. This roundtable seeks to share pedagogical approaches at the intersection of modernism and writing. The call is purposefully broad.  

Some topics to consider:

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute to the progress of our society.

Nelson Mandela******

Organization: Benedictine University Mesa

Event: International Interdisciplinary Conference “Achieving Stability during Unstable Times”

Keynote Speaker: Professor Fernando Romero

The English Graduate Student Society's Annual Spring Conference: Recovery

For over a decade, this interdisciplinary conference-proudl hosted by Florida Atlantic University's EGSS- has celebrated creative & scholarly work by graduate students in the South Florida area. We invite grad students to submit a proposal for any work, be it critical or creative, that they might like to present via conference format.

Presentations will be held both in person and on Zoom the weekend of April 20th.

Proposal Cuidelines:

Latinx Linguistic Justice, an edited collection to be submitted toRoutledge, calls us to re-examine our understandings of Latinidad or Latinx studies within Linguistic Justice. This edited collection aims to highlight marginalized voices within Latinx communities such asafro-caribeños,chicanxs,cubanxs, nuyoricans o mexicanxsfrom Arizona, California, and/or Florida.  We also seek to uplift marginalized voices from Indigenous or First-Nation, Francophone, or Lusophone peoples. A sampling of topics appropriate for this collection includes, but is not limited to: 

Coast to Coast Connections 2023

A hybrid/virtual student conference hosted by the University at Albany and the University of California, Davis

Saturday, April 22, 2023

12 PM - 7:00 PM EST | 9 AM - 4:00 PM PT

www.connections2023.org

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED: Friday February 24, 2023

Conference co-directors: Kayla Adgate (UAlbany, kadgate@ualbany.edu), Stacey Baran (UC Davis, sbaran@ucdavis.edu)

Thursday, November 9 – Saturday, November 11, 2023

Atlanta Marriott Buckhead & Conference Center
Atlanta, GA

Rhetoric & Composition: TEACHING WRITING IN COLLEGE

Wayne C. Booth, in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), coined the term unreliable narrator to discuss the “artificial authority” that we as readers assign the narrator that is telling us a story (4). The question, however, comes when the narrator withholds information, manipulates information, or outright disguises or hides the information to fulfill a particular purpose. Perhaps the narrator wishes their reader to believe a particular idea, or they do not want the reader to know something to maintain the image they are creating through their narration. Literature has always played with the concept of narration. From Cervantes to Poe to George R.R. Martin, readers experience narrators that are confused, obscured, illusive, and more.

Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language

Guest editors: Chris C. Palmer, Kennesaw State University; Amanda Sladek, University of Nebraska-Kearney; & Jennifer Stone, University of Alaska Anchorage

Call for Proposals as PDF

The 17th Biennial Communication Ethics Conference will be held virtually, June 6–8, 2023. The conference is sponsored by the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and the Communication Ethics Institute at Duquesne University.

NOTE: The conference will take place entirely on Zoom. Access to the Zoom meeting will be provided in June.

"Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches to Second and Heritage Languages”

XXIV Annual Céfiro Conference on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

April 21st 2023

Texas Tech University 

The 2023 Céfiro Conference theme aims to interrogate conventional knowledge as a way to expand the frameworks that guide our teaching and learning of Hispanic and Lusphone linguistics and cultures. We welcome participants to submit original research in their respective field of studies including but not limited to topics listed below. 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Whitney Chappell

We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs, CT on Friday, April 14th, 2023. Proposal submissions are due Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 and can be submitted through our conference website. We are thrilled to be hosting Stacey Waite as this year’s keynote speaker. 

TOPOGRAPHIES OF MEDICINE

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES

April 28th – 29th 2023

Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard (Cambridge, MA)