[ATTW-L] Fw: CFP 2018 Conference for Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies

[Gonzales, Laura J]

?Hi everyone,


Please see below for information about the upcoming Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies conference.


Laura

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From: Clifton, Jennifer L
Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 6:03 PM
To: Gonzales, Laura J
Subject: CFP 2018 Conference for Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies


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We invite you to join us for our third annual conference to take place October 11-12 in Austin, TX. Please circulate the CFP far and wide among interested undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and community partners.

Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
2018 Annual Conference Call for Proposals
October 11-12 in Austin, Texas

Sponsored by the Association for Rhetoric and Writing Studies, this conference will provide a space for scholarship, conversation, and collaboration related to all facets of undergraduate programs in rhetoric and writing studies (RWS). As such, we invite proposals on any issue related to RWS undergraduate programs, whether existing, planned, or aspirational. Further, we invite undergraduate and graduate students to submit proposals on any question or issue related to rhetoric and writing studies. We intend the CFP below to cast a broad, ecumenical orientation to the discipline and its current and future pragmatic possibilities.

Inventing Pathways and Possibilities:
Enacting the Promise of Rhetoric and Writing Studies Undergraduate Programs

As troubling as these times are, this is also an especially invigorating moment for the discipline as rhetoric and writing studies is in many ways uniquely positioned to take up precarity, indeterminacy, and complexity-characteristics especially palpable in our times (Dingo & Strickland, 2012). After all, this is our wheelhouse. This is what we do. We invent pathways and possibilities (Atwill, 2010; Dryer, 2008). We transform words and materials and technologies (Baca, 2008; Boyle, 2016; Cushman, 2006; Gilyard, 2011; Gonzales, 2018; Gries, 2015; Martínez, 2015; Potts, 2013). We invent ideas and institutions (Grabill, Porter, Blythe & Miles, 2003; Lauer, 2003; Porter, Sullivan, Blythe, Grabill & Miles, 2000; Long, forthcoming). We play and perform and problem-solve (Blythe, Grabill & Riley 2008; Flower, 2008; Higgins and Brush, 2006; Higgins, Long, and Flower, 2006; Pough, Richardson, Raimist & Durham 2007; Simmons, 2007). We salvage and scrap, mix and re-mix (Banks, 2006; Gries, 2015; Medina, 2015; Palmeri, 2012). And all with no guarantees as we remain attuned to "what is" and "what could be" in real time as they dynamically unfold (Branch, 2007; Clifton, 2013). This dynamic unfolding points to a key promise of rhetoric and writing: that the means matter as much as the ends, that how we will be together matters as much as what we aim to bring about (Crick, 2010; Danisch, 2007).

We invite you to think with us about the rough ground of inquiry and invention in your undergraduate programs, whether they are existing, planned, or aspirational. What do precarity, indeterminancy, and complexity look like and how do you navigate them down on the ground where you are as you imagine, plan, sustain, re-vamp, and assess RWS undergraduate programs?

For the full call as well as instructions and links for submitting proposals, please see the attached CFP.



- Jen

Jennifer Clifton, Ph.D.
Rhetoric and Writing Studies Faculty, Department of English
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Interamerican and Border Studies
Core Faculty, Center for Civic Engagement
The University of Texas at El Paso

President-elect, Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies<https://www.rhetoricandwriting.org/>

Author of Argument as Dialogue Across Difference: Engaging Youth in Public Literacies

Co-author of Dialoguing Across Cultures, Identities, and Learning: Crosscurrents and Complexities in Literacy Classrooms
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