<div dir="ltr"><b>Hi everyone,  We would appreciate your sharing this CFP with anyone who would be interested.  Thanks!  Karen</b><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt">Call for Proposals</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy</span></b></a></span><b><u><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;color:rgb(17,85,204)"></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Fall 2025 Special Issue:  </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Science Communication: Multimodal Challenges and Opportunities</span></i><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Guest Editors, Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara:</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/people/karen-lunsford" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Karen Lunsford</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">, PhD</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Kara Mae Brown, MFA</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Rebecca Chenoweth, PhD</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Kenny Smith, PhD</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Amanda Stansell, PhD</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Kairos</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">is a peer-reviewed, academic, open-access, online journal founded in 1996. Scholars represent their research using a mixture of written text, audio files, video clips, or other technologies ("webtexts").</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">This special issue of <i>Kairos</i> aims to investigate how digital and multimodal technologies have transformed science communication (broadly defined) over the last decade. We have seen changes in how both researchers and the public interact with scientific information–changes driven by scientific concerns (e.g., the pandemic, climate change) and recent technological developments (e.g., in social media, video games, transcription, artificial intelligence, sound). We seek scholarship that both takes into account the current state of science communication but also anticipates where the field is headed in the future. We encourage pieces that guide and challenge our colleagues as they and their students navigate the shifting science writing landscape.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">In particular, we encourage work that takes advantage of <i>Kairos's</i> capacities as an Internet-based publication, using the affordances of digital and multimodal rhetoric to go beyond what is possible in a print text. <i>Kairos’s </i>publication platform can allow authors to present the <b><i>dynamic</i></b> multimedia and multimodal content that now characterizes much of science communication (see the examples mentioned below). We also seek research that investigates how digital technologies are breaking down barriers between disciplines and revealing the interconnection between science and the humanities that has become central to discourse about science in public spaces. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">The following serve as suggestions for proposals; however, we are open to a wide variety of topics.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">How have new media (podcasts, video games, social media platforms) and new capacities of media (data visualization, AI art/writing) changed both academic and public science communication? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">How are informal science learning spaces (e.g., museums, edutainment, after-school programs) shaping science communication? What can Writing Studies learn from / about these spaces?  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">How have digital technologies or social media contributed to or addressed fraud, data manipulation, and other lapses in science?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">How has the digital turn diversified the population of science communicators (e.g., demographics in authorship and/or engagement; supporting indigenous voices in science communication)? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">How has this turn facilitated community-building among minoritized scientists (e.g., #BlackAFinSTEM)? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;color:black">How might digital spaces reformulate our understanding of some perennial distinctions within our discipline, such as the division between “science” and “technical” communication?</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">How have storytelling (including memoirs and ‘day in the life’) and visual art (including comics) been used to communicate with the public about science in digital spaces? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 40.5pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">      </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">How might we best integrate, examine, and interrogate our approaches to teaching SciComm in courses and programs?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Authors are encouraged to respond to these questions with dynamic multimodal evidence, such as screen captures (e.g., of interactions on citizen science projects), audio clips (e.g., of audio-based projects such as databases of bird calls), video clips (e.g., of vlogs, popular science videos, physical gestures), renditions of VR or AR experiences, and other forms of multimodal representation.</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">We seek submissions for the following sections of the journal: Topoi, Inventio, Praxis, Interviews, Reviews, and Disputatio. Please consult the </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/submissions.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Kairos submission page</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> for descriptions. Queries to the guest editors are welcome.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Submission Deadline (Proposals): October 30, 2023</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Contact the guest editors with a proposal via email. (Subject line: “SciComm submission: YOUR-NAME”.) The proposal should include a 1-2 paragraph explanation of the webtext’s topic and argument; a 1-2 paragraph description of the webtext’s structure and design (including a URL and/or mockup images, if authors wish); a list of associated technologies that will be incorporated (consult general <i>Kairos</i> guidelines re: which technologies are supported); and a brief annotated bibliography. Authors will receive confirmation of submission, via email, within 2-3 days.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Submission email: </span><span lang="EN"><a href="mailto:klunsford@writing.ucsb.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">klunsford@writing.ucsb.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Proposed Publication Timeline:</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Proposals due: October 30, 2023</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Notification of acceptances of proposals: November 21, 2023</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Full webtexts due: May 1, 2024</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Revised webtexts due: October 15, 2024</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Publication date: Fall 2025</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br><b>General Guidelines:</b></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">• Please consult the </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/submissions.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">general submission guidelines</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">, particularly regarding supported technologies.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">• <i>Kairos</i> can accept most web-ready file formats. (Check with the guest editors if you are unsure.) Please keep in mind that this excludes word-processed documents, although you will be asked to provide transcripts of materials as pdfs.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">• We prefer URLs of webtexts for review purposes. If you do not have access to open or password-protected webspace, please contact the guest editors in advance of the submission deadline to arrange alternate means of delivery.</span><font color="#888888"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></font></p><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Karen Lunsford, PhD<br></div>Associate Professor of Writing<br></div>Director, Writing Program<br></div>3432 South Hall<br></div><div>University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-3010<br></div><a href="mailto:klunsford@writing.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">klunsford@writing.ucsb.edu</a></div><div>Pronouns: she, her, hers</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Karen Lunsford, PhD<br></div>Associate Professor of Writing<br></div>Director, Writing Program<br></div>3432 South Hall<br></div><div>University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-3010<br></div><a href="mailto:klunsford@writing.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">klunsford@writing.ucsb.edu</a></div><div>Pronouns: she, her, hers<br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>