CFP: Southern Regional Composition Conference
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Hello!
The SRCC committee is excited to share the theme and CFP for our 2023 conference, held in-person on April 14, at UA-Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock, Arkansas!
For the 2023 Southern Regional Composition Conference, we invite proposals that consider how place (where we live, where we work, where we’re from, etc.) informs our research, inspires our teaching, and influences our students’ writing. We are also adding a Helpful and Innovative Teaching Strategies (HITS) category to encourage the exchange of resources and feedback among educators, without the restriction of a conference theme. See below or click here for the full CFP. You can also learn more about the SRCC on our website.
Proposals of 150-200 words must be submitted by February 1st, 2023.
Questions about proposals or conference details can be directed to srcompositi...@gmail.com
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The 2023 Southern Regional Composition Conference: Extending Space for Each Other
Hosting Institution: English Department, UA - Pulaski Technical College
Date: 14 April 2023
Pre-conference social planned for 13 April 2023
“Rhetoric is love, and it must speak a commodious language, creating a world full of space and time that will hold our diversities” Jim W. Corder, “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love”
“Place-based pedagogies are needed so that the education of citizens might have some direct bearing on the well-being of the social and ecological places people actually inhabit” David A. Gruenewald, “The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place”
For the last two years, the Southern Regional Composition Conference has been held virtually because we wanted a place of safety for our colleagues. This year, we are returning to an in-person conference, so that we can revisit our environment and the material conditions that influence our classroom pedagogies. In the South, particularly, words have become battlegrounds in the proliferation of anti-CRT or “don’t say gay” legislation; these local laws and amendments are happening against a backdrop of the national overturning of Roe v. Wade. Teaching writing and rhetoric has never seemed so daunting for many of us. Considering these local realities and their national implications inspired us to center place for this year’s conference theme.
Rosanne Carlo in her book Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing offers ways of considering ethos that transcend the “textual,” inspiring us to engage in “habit[s]” that “communicate our being to others” (43). Carlo maintains that ethos is a way of living and “place-based writing, at its heart, is about learning to live together” (137). Arguing that we should “practice and teach rhetoric with an ethical center” (54) Carlo writes, ”Rhetoric is for fostering empathy. Rhetoric is for imagining and creating a more just world. Rhetoric, in short, allows us to be with others” (165). For our 2023 conference, we invite you to consider Carlo’s generative concepts of ethos, rhetoric, and place-based writing.
Carlo asks her readers the following questions, which can be used as starting places for proposals, as they ground our ideas for this conference:
• How do we know place?
• How do we become part of a place and how does it become part of us?
• How is writing about our places an expression of self to others? (137)
For the 2023 Southern Regional Composition Conference, we welcome submissions that consider how place (where we live, where we work, where we’re from, etc.) affects us all, how place-based pedagogies can be brought into the classroom, how we consider our own ethos as reflective of our lived experience, how a return to normal manifests in our material conditions, what impacts have local rhetorics had on our ethos and our ways of teaching, and how contingent faculty can work to establish ethos while facing unjust labor conditions. And, of course, you may extend, expand, or consider these questions in light of your own research and practices. The questions listed below may help spark ideas:
• In what ways does place inform your pedagogical praxis?
• In what ways do you employ ethos in order to create a classroom space that fosters empathy?
• How do you use online spaces to create a sense of place?
• What projects, practices, or activities do you use to encourage students to write about the spaces they inhabit, the communities they represent?
• How do you create an “ethical center” for teaching rhetoric during complex times?
In addition, this year the SRCC is excited to launch a new category of presentations called Helpful and Innovative Teaching Strategies (HITS). For this category, we encourage submissions that feature creative and engaging classroom assignments and activities. Submissions for this category need not follow the conference theme.
Please submit your proposal using the (the next line is a clickable link to the Proposal Form):
SRCC Proposal Form.
Proposals are due by February 1st, 2023. A full proposal should include a title and a 150-200 word abstract, and it should indicate the format:
• Roundtable conversation (75 minute)
• Individual presentation (20 minute)
• Panel presentation (75 minutes, 60 minutes for presentation and 15 for Q&A)
• Individual poster
• HITS presentation (20 minutes)
Please direct all questions to our email address: srcompositi...@gmail.com
Hosting Institution: English Department, UA - Pulaski Technical College
Date: 14 April 2023
Pre-conference social planned for 13 April 2023
“Rhetoric is love, and it must speak a commodious language, creating a world full of space and time that will hold our diversities” Jim W. Corder, “Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love”
“Place-based pedagogies are needed so that the education of citizens might have some direct bearing on the well-being of the social and ecological places people actually inhabit” David A. Gruenewald, “The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place”
For the last two years, the Southern Regional Composition Conference has been held virtually because we wanted a place of safety for our colleagues. This year, we are returning to an in-person conference, so that we can revisit our environment and the material conditions that influence our classroom pedagogies. In the South, particularly, words have become battlegrounds in the proliferation of anti-CRT or “don’t say gay” legislation; these local laws and amendments are happening against a backdrop of the national overturning of Roe v. Wade. Teaching writing and rhetoric has never seemed so daunting for many of us. Considering these local realities and their national implications inspired us to center place for this year’s conference theme.
Rosanne Carlo in her book Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing offers ways of considering ethos that transcend the “textual,” inspiring us to engage in “habit[s]” that “communicate our being to others” (43). Carlo maintains that ethos is a way of living and “place-based writing, at its heart, is about learning to live together” (137). Arguing that we should “practice and teach rhetoric with an ethical center” (54) Carlo writes, ”Rhetoric is for fostering empathy. Rhetoric is for imagining and creating a more just world. Rhetoric, in short, allows us to be with others” (165). For our 2023 conference, we invite you to consider Carlo’s generative concepts of ethos, rhetoric, and place-based writing.
Carlo asks her readers the following questions, which can be used as starting places for proposals, as they ground our ideas for this conference:
• How do we know place?
• How do we become part of a place and how does it become part of us?
• How is writing about our places an expression of self to others? (137)
For the 2023 Southern Regional Composition Conference, we welcome submissions that consider how place (where we live, where we work, where we’re from, etc.) affects us all, how place-based pedagogies can be brought into the classroom, how we consider our own ethos as reflective of our lived experience, how a return to normal manifests in our material conditions, what impacts have local rhetorics had on our ethos and our ways of teaching, and how contingent faculty can work to establish ethos while facing unjust labor conditions. And, of course, you may extend, expand, or consider these questions in light of your own research and practices. The questions listed below may help spark ideas:
• In what ways does place inform your pedagogical praxis?
• In what ways do you employ ethos in order to create a classroom space that fosters empathy?
• How do you use online spaces to create a sense of place?
• What projects, practices, or activities do you use to encourage students to write about the spaces they inhabit, the communities they represent?
• How do you create an “ethical center” for teaching rhetoric during complex times?
In addition, this year the SRCC is excited to launch a new category of presentations called Helpful and Innovative Teaching Strategies (HITS). For this category, we encourage submissions that feature creative and engaging classroom assignments and activities. Submissions for this category need not follow the conference theme.
Please submit your proposal using the (the next line is a clickable link to the Proposal Form):
SRCC Proposal Form.
Proposals are due by February 1st, 2023. A full proposal should include a title and a 150-200 word abstract, and it should indicate the format:
• Roundtable conversation (75 minute)
• Individual presentation (20 minute)
• Panel presentation (75 minutes, 60 minutes for presentation and 15 for Q&A)
• Individual poster
• HITS presentation (20 minutes)
Please direct all questions to our email address: srcompositi...@gmail.com
Cristine Busser, PhD
Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, & Information Design
Coordinator, First-Year Writing Program
School of Communication
Win Thompson Hall 327
University of Central Arkansas
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