<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">!Hola¡ colleagues, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Dora Ramirez and I are thrilled to share with you all the CFP for the 2020 Cultural Rhetorics Conference, <i class="">Fault Lines: Stories from Our Lands, </i>that we are co-hosting here at Boise State University. Please share with students, colleagues, and community members. We hope to see you all here in beautiful Boise this October. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span id="m_-1682669714310518674gmail-docs-internal-guid-f2d095fe-7fff-8b8a-bccc-abc6ccb0c273" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CALL FOR PROPOSALS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The 4th Biennial Cultural Rhetorics Conference | Fault Lines: Stories from Our Lands</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Boise State University</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Boise, ID, USA</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">October 1st - 3rd, 2020</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Fault lines are tectonic boundaries, or breaks in the earth’s surface that have the capacity to create beautiful landscapes or have the consequence of destroying that which lives along these fractures. The Cultural Rhetorics 2020 Conference, held in Boise, Idaho, invites scholars, community members, activists, and individuals to critically engage both “fault” and “lines,” examining how the idea of fault is placed on certain communities and individuals, as well as the self when confronting our discomfort, our boundaries—our “lines.” So if fault is only placed on the surface level of an issue, how can we go below the surface, revealing its true social implications?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We invite participants to</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">submit a proposal that engages with the organizational fault lines and what lies beneath the surface of rhetorical practices that arise in our historical and contemporary world. Examples are or</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">ganizational fault lines in language, education, segregation, land, movement, (im)migration, sovereignty, access, the environment, food, police, politics, law, media, patriarchy, economics, race, dis/ability, gender, sexuality, and health (mental, physical, and spiritual). Although this list could never encompass all the active organizational fault lines in our society, Cultural Rhetorics can offer alternative ways of distributing stress on the fault lines that lie under systems of oppression, difference, and privilege by sharing new knowledge(s) and providing a space where we can practice and examine important concepts of reconciliation, relationality, and responsibility. It is understood that the United States is a colonized land </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">and that history has structured our systems and ways of thinking. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">This land will always be the foundation of our cultures and communities, consequently, we must learn to live with and make apparent the fault lines in our world, because land is our relative, a mother, a home, us. </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Important dates:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Submissions open: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">February 1st, 2020 - April 1st, 2020</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Registration open: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">June 1st</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We’re seeking proposals that </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">center </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">cultural rhetorics in scholarly, pedagogical, creative and community practices via presentations (individual and group), performances, art installations, roundtables, workshops, learnshops, knowledge-shares, making demonstrations, posters, and more. Creative approaches to presenting and sharing knowledges welcome! </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We invite proposals from scholars, teachers, writers, artists, activists, performers, and tradition-bearers who want to contribute to, define, expand, illustrate, or embody the field of cultural rhetorics and join our intellectual community. </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The proposal submission system will go live on </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">January 15th</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> at </span><a href="https://cultrhetconsortium.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cultrhetconsortium.org/&source=gmail&ust=1576610159700000&usg=AFQjCNGHAHLlFWfQjL5EG7GzVKAzpPek8Q" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">https://cultrhetconsortium.<wbr class="">org/</span></a></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">If you have questions, check out the Cultural Rhetorics Consortium website, or email us at </span><a href="mailto:cultrhetcon@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration-line: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">cultrhetcon@gmail.com</span></a></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We look forward to seeing you all at the conference! </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dora Ramirez, Les Hutchinson, and Malea Powell</span></div></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FurR_XYNQZeZOH2jfakC5Ha8q6OIJnLZr-w0UK99Tuw/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FurR_XYNQZeZOH2jfakC5Ha8q6OIJnLZr-w0UK99Tuw/edit?usp%3Dsharing&source=gmail&ust=1576610159700000&usg=AFQjCNGTYUsj64HnCiBZ2fwlewZnIMCr8w" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">https://docs.google.com/<wbr class="">document/d/1FurR_<wbr class="">XYNQZeZOH2jfakC5Ha8q6OIJnLZr-<wbr class="">w0UK99Tuw/edit?usp=sharing</a><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; width: 22px; margin: 2px 0px 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Les Hutchinson Campos Botillo, PhD<br class="">Assistant Professor of English<br class="">Technical Communication Program<br class="">Department of English<br class="">Boise State University<br class="">1910 University Drive, MS 1525<br class="">Boise, ID 83725</div></div></div></div>
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