call for papers: Rhetoric Society of America

[Mary Bucholtz]

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT / CALL FOR PAPERS:

Rhetoric Society of America
9th Biennial Conference
"Professing Rhetoric"
May 25-28, 2000
Hyatt Regency Washington

Sponsored by The University of Maryland
Local Site Coordinators: Jeanne Fahnestock and Robert Gaines
Program coordinator: Frederick Antczak, The University of Iowa

We seek papers and panels in the history, theory, criticism, and pedagogy
of rhetoric, especially those exploring intellectual ground common to
composition and communication.

Particular areas of interest include: the recovery of women's, African
American, Latino, and native American rhetorics; rhetoric and the body,
rhetoric and performance, and other revisions of the canons, stases, topoi,
and pisteis; contemporary theory and the rhetorical lexicon; rhetoric as
figurality; comparative and contrastive rhetorics: rhetoric and genre;
rhetorics of science and technology; rhetoric and reconceptions of the
public sphere; rhetoric and public memory; rhetorics of globalization and
social change, including issues of race, ethnicity, and nationalism;
rhetoric's institutionalized place in the academy in relation to the other
humanities and to the interpretive social sciences; the place of rhetoric
in the formation of departments and the development of pedagogy in the 19th
and 20th centuries; and papers and panels that could take full advantage of
off-venue sites like the Folger and National Archives II.

Conference Theme: "Professing Rhetoric"

Keynote Speaker: James Arnt Aune, Texas A&M University
Tentative Keynote Title: "Rhetoric as Institutional Practice: Turf,
Technology, and the Classroom"

The deadline for proposals papers and panels will be August 15, 1999. Mail
proposals to:

Fred Antczak
College of Liberal Arts
120 Schaeffer Hall
University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242-1409

Questions about the conference are welcome: email to
frederick-antczak at uiowa.edu

Proposals for papers should be no longer than 1 page and should include:
presenter's name, presentation title, abstract, and contact information.

Proposals for panels should be no longer than 2 pages and should include:
panel title, presenters' names, presentation titles, abstracts, and contact
information. Proposals for panels should also identify the person
responsible for organizing the panel.

The Hyatt Regency Washington is in the heart of the U.S. Capital, within
walking distance of Union Station, which is the hub for Amtrak, light rail
and Metro; it is also near national museums, Library of Congress, the
Folger Library and Congress itself.
Single occupancy $129, double $154.

Conference Registration fees: regular members $80, student members $40.

To join the Rhetoric Society of America:
Memberships are as follows:
Individual $30
Institution $40
Student $15
Outside U.S. $35

All members receive Rhetoric Society Quarterly at no additional charge.

Send to:
Cheryl Glenn
Associate Prof. of English
Penn State University
142 South Burrowes Building
University Park, Pa. 16802-6200




Frederick J. Antczak
Associate Dean for Academic Programs
College of Liberal Arts
120 Schaeffer Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242-1409
phone: (319) 335-2633
mailto:frederick-antczak at uiowa.edu