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GSU at Feminisms and Rhetorics 2015

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Georgia State University Rhetoric and Composition Program and Alumni at the Feminisms & Rhetorics Conference*

Oct. 30, 2015 (click photo to enlarge)

Top left: Marta Hess (PhD program at GSU & Treasurer of Coalition), Mary Hocks (Assoc. Prof. at GSU), Oriana Gatta (alum & Asst. Prof. at IUP), Lynée Gaillet (Prof. & Chair at GSU), Michelle Eble (alum & Assoc. Prof. at ECU)

Bottom left: Lara Smith-Sitton (alum & Asst. Prof. at KSU), Letizia Guglielmo (alum & Assoc. Prof. at KSU), Jenn Fishman (President of Coalition & Assoc. Prof at Marquette), Cara Smith (MAPW program at KSU)

Not Pictured: Liz Tasker-Davis (alum & Assoc. Prof. at Stephen F. Austin University, TX)

Photo Description: Nine of us gather in two rows at a round table covered with a black table cloth. The table is set for dinner with salads, plates, glasses and a festive vase of red flowers as the centerpiece. Five of us stand with arms around one other’s shoulders, four sit in front along one side of the table, as we all lean slightly in to smile at the camera.

*The 10th biennial Feminisms & Rhetorics, sponsored by the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition and hosted by Shirley Rose and Maureen Goggin, Arizona State University

Research Network Forum at 4C Proposals due Oct. 31st

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RESEARCH NETWORK FORUM at CCCC

April 6, 2016 from 8:30AM – 5:00PM in Houston, TX

Proposal Deadline: Saturday, October 31, 2015

Submit proposals for Work In Process here:

https://sites.google.com/site/researchnetworkforum/home/proposals

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Please join the Research Network Forum as a Work-in-Progress Presenter and/or serve as a Discussion Leader and/or as a publication Editor.

The Research Network Forum, founded in 1987, is a pre-convention forum at CCCC which provides an opportunity for established researchers, new researchers, and graduate students to discuss their current projects and receive mentoring from colleagues in the discipline. The forum is free to CCCC convention registrants. As in past years, RNF 2016 features morning plenary addresses from Cindy Selfe, Howard Tinsberg, and Todd Taylor focusing on “Writing Strategies for Action,” the 2016 CCCC theme.

The RNF welcomes Work-in-Progress Presenters (WiPPs) at any stage of their research and at any position in the composition/rhetoric field (graduate student, junior faculty, tenured faculty, administrator, and/or independent scholar). During roundtable discussions, WiPPs are grouped by thematic clusters where they discuss their current projects at both a morning and an afternoon roundtable session in 8 – 10 minute presentations and benefit from the responses of other researchers. Unless otherwise indicated, WiPPs are scheduled for both morning & afternoon sessions. Collaborating researchers are placed at separate tables to ensure the most networking opportunities on their research projects.

Discussion Leaders (DLs) lead the thematic roundtables and mentor WiPPs; this role is key to the RNF. We ask that Discussion Leaders are experienced, established researchers. Serving as a Discussion Leader provides a valuable service to the composition/rhetoric community. Discussion Leaders may serve at the morning session, afternoon session, or all day, and they are welcome to also participate as WiPPs.

Participants also include Editors of printed and online composition/rhetoric publications (journals, edited collections, and book series), who discuss publishing opportunities for completed works-in-progress in an open, roundtable format. We encourage Editors to bring copies of the publications they edit/publish and announcements for display at the RNF meeting. Editors are encouraged to serve as Discussion Leaders and may also participate as WiPPs.

To submit a proposal (open August 15 to October 31), visit our website, http://researchnetworkforum.org

Please fill out a form for each of the roles in which you would like to participate—Work-in-Progress Presenter, Discussion Leader, and/or Editor. You may appear on the RNF Program in addition to having a speaking role at the Conference on College Composition & Communication.

Questions? Email Co-Chairs Risa P. Gorelick and Gina M. Merys: rnfchairs@gmail.com

CCCC 2016 Opportunity – Digital Pedagogy Posters CFP due November 15.

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The CCCC panels for 2016 in Houston are set, but the Digital Pedagogy Poster (DPP) organizers are just beginning to look for folks to present at CCCC in April.

Send us your Digital Pedagogy Poster proposals!  

If you are experimenting with digital technologies in your courses or in educational units (i.e., Writing Centers, WAC programs, community media projects, etc.), please submit a proposal via this online form:http://goo.gl/forms/JHcLDdvWl8.

Last year’s sessions were both very well attended and wildly interactive. We do our best to provide an engaged audience by setting up two rounds of posters back to back. During the first round, second-round poster presenters are part of the audience. During the second round, first-round poster presenters are part of the audience. Of course, many others join in as well! There will be few times when you are not engaged in deep conversations about your project or the projects of others. We also encourage presenters to involve graduate and undergraduate students in the preparation and delivery of our poster sessions. One goal of the DPP has always been to meet and talk to students from the classes or organizations where digital pedagogies are enacted!

If you would like to propose a poster presentation (as a team or individually), please fill out the form at this address:http://goo.gl/forms/JHcLDdvWl8. The deadline is November 15, 2015.

If you are considering your options, here are answers to the questions most frequently asked about Digital Pedagogy Poster presentations:

•                Your participation this year will NOT count as your “one presentation” at CCCC.

•                We will have our own “room” for these posters, and they will be held on Thurs & Friday, not on Wed.

•                These posters will be reviewed (outside the formal CCCC review process, obviously). After the review, we will provide you by mid- to late-November with an official letter indicating that your proposal was reviewed and that you will be presenting in Houston. Names will also be in the Digital Pedagogy program (handed out on site) and in the CCCC online program.

If you have any trouble with the online submission form, just send this information via email to digitalpedagogyposters2016@gmail.com.

•                Full name, affiliation, and contact information

•                A short 75 word description of your Digital Pedagogy approach or assignment

•                A spiffy title

•                If appropriate, your team members’ names and emails

Because CCCC is committed to supporting these posters and other Computer Connection events, we are promised an excellent space that is well equipped and connected: power, projection, screens, tables, and poster stands.

CFP for Computers and Writing – Due Oct. 26th (extension)

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See http://siteslab.org/cwcon/2016/ for more information

Our theme for the 2016 Computers and Writing conference is Crossing Wires: Reaching Across Campus, Between Disciplines, and Into Communities. With this theme we ask you to consider the ways in which new media and digital technologies enable us to expand our horizons, both in terms of our scholarship and our pedagogy. In particular, we invite proposals that reconsider traditional academic boundaries, whether those be boundaries between disciplines, between the campus community and the local community, or geographical boundaries. Conversely, proposals might also consider how our use of technology creates boundaries to achieving pedagogical goals and (perhaps unintentionally) serves as a gatekeeper to collaborative efforts and knowledge dissemination.  The following list of potential topics should not be considered exhaustive, but rather a jumping off point for consideration.

  • Creation and or use of collaborative technologies in the humanities
  • Trans/Cross/Inter-disciplinary work
  • Using technology to build connections between colleges and local communities
  • Using technology to teach writing across the curriculum
  • K-12 college connections/collaborations
  • Global conversations through technology
  • Innovation in online environments
  • Distributed networks and peer reviewing
  • New curricula, especially those focused on multidisciplinarity
  • New creative forms taking advantage of networked technologies
  • Online and multimodal pedagogical tools
  • Physical and online learning spaces and how they create community

Session Descriptions and Instructions

Computers and Writing 2016 will feature several different session types. In addition to panel presentations, we invite participants to consider proposing a mini-workshop or Digital Showcase presentation this year. Mini-workshops will take place during the concurrent sessions and should teach attendees a new technology, tool, or practice. The Digital Showcase will run in the afternoon during the conference and is an opportunity to demonstrate a technology from a pedagogical perspective or showcase work created by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students. The format will be similar to a poster session, but will require presenters to present some sort of interactive or time-based technology.

The requirements for each session type are listed below. Please note, presenters may have only one speaking role (Panel Presentation, or Mini-Workshop), excluding Digital Showcase Presentations, Roundtables and Half/Full-Day workshop facilitating.

Presentation Types:

  • Roundtables/Lightning Talks- 5 or more presenters, 600 word proposal
  • Individual Presentations- 250 word proposal
  • Panel Presentations- 3-4 presenters, 600 word proposal
  • Digital Showcase: Presenters will use interactive or time-based technology to showcase their pedagogical ideas, research, or creative work within a poster session-style framework.  Presenters must bring own technology. Power and limited portable screens will be available.
  • Mini-Workshop: Within the confines of the 75 minute concurrent sessions, presenters will instruct attendees on a new tool or technological procedure.  Mac and PC computer labs are available
  • Half-Day/Full-day Workshops 600 word proposal AND outline of proposed activities

Pre-conference workshops are intended to involve participants in a technology or issue set that rewards intensive work, giving them opportunities to learn new applications, assessment, and integration of emergent technologies for writing, learning, and collaboration. Workshops should be participatory, and proposals should articulate how attendees will interact with each other, the presenters, and/or technologies involved. If you submit a workshop proposal, please include a document that outlines the proposed timeline of workshop activities. Mac and PC computer labs are available.

Conference Submission Opens: August 31st 

Conference Submission Closes: October 23rd

Notification of Acceptance: December 21st

Coalition & Mentoring Tables at 4C – Wed., 6:30 pm in Marriott Ballroom III

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One of the best opportunities at 4C! The Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and  Composition meets Wed. evening and offers mentoring and discussion roundtables in the second half of the session — from 7:30-8:30 p.m. (EDT) in Marriott Ballroom III.

4C15 Mentoring Tables

1. Alt Academics & Independent Scholars: Beth Hewett, Erin Krampetz

beth.hewett@verizon.net, ekrampetz@ashoka.org

2. Campus Labor Activism: Kirsti Cole, Bo Wang

kirsti.cole@mnsu.edu, bwang@csufresno.edu

3. Developing Research Questions: David Gold, Sarah Hallenbeck, Lindsay Rose Russell

davidphillipgold@pe1404.com, Hallenbecks@uncw.edu, russellr@illinois.edu

4. Grad School Transitions: Nan Johnson, Wendy Sharer

johnson.112@osu.edu, sharerw@ecu.edu

5. Fostering Inclusion: Risa Applegarth, Cristina Ramirez, Hyoejin Yoon

risa_applegarth@uncg.edu, cristinaramirez@email.arizona.edu, hyoon@wcupa.edu

6. Making Monographs: Kate Adams, Lynée Gaillet

kadams@loyno.edu lgaillet@gsu.edu

7. Making the Most of Digital Resources: April Cobos, Becca Richards

acobo001@odu.edu, richardr@stolaf.edu

8. Mentoring Undergraduate Research: Jane Greer, Paige Banaji

greerj@umkc.edu, paige.banaji@gmail.com

9. When and How to Say No: Marta Hess, Gwen Pough

mhess@gsu.edu, gdpough@syr.edu, 

10. Working in the Archives: Nancy Myers, Tarez Samra Graban

tarez.graban@gmail.com, namyers@uncg.edu

 

GSU at the 4Cs next weekend!

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Wednesday, March 18
6:30pm-8:30pm CWS   A New Work Showcase hosted by the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Location: Marriott Marriott, Grand Ballroom E, Level Two

Lynee Gaillet Georgia State University

Thursday, March 19
1:45pm-3:00pm C.05   Engaging Publics Beyond the Classroom: Invention and Pedagogies of Place
Location: Marriott Marriott, Florida Ballroom II, Level Two

Ashley Holmes Georgia State University – Reclaiming Public Space Through Digital Mapping: A Place-Based Approach to Mobile Composition
1:45pm-3:00pm C.13   Pushing for Change: Positive and Innovative Change in WPA
Location: Marriott Marriott, Grand Ballroom I, Level Two

Beth Burmester Georgia State University, Atlanta – Speaker 3: Innovative Risks for New Rewards in Writing Program Administration: Public Scholarship and Insights from Critics in Medicine, Law, and Finance
3:15pm-4:30pm D.13   Contingent Faculty and Academic Work off the Tenure Track
Location: Marriott Marriott, Florida Ballroom V, Level Two

Lynee Gaillet Georgia State University

Letizia Guglielmo Kennesaw State University
3:15pm-4:30pm D.24   Digital Talkback: Circumventing Conventions with/in Digital Spaces
Location: Convention Center Tampa CC, Room 3, First Floor

Meng Yu Georgia State University, Atlanta – Speaker 3: The Resisted Code from China
4:45pm-6:00pm E.35   Confronting Race in the Academy: Whiteness, Islamaphobia, and Academic Borderlands
Location: Convention Center Tampa CC, Room 10, First FloorChair: Xiaobo Wang Georgia State University
Friday, March 20
8:00am-9:15am F.19   Rhetorics of Risk, Loss, Nostalgia, and Connection in Sonic Composing Practices
Location: Marriott Marriott, Meeting Room 9, Level Three

Mary Hocks Georgia State University – Speaker 2: More Cowbell”: Musical Composing and Recording Processes as Sonic Rhetoric
8:00am-9:15am F.39   Getting Them Ready: Developing College Readiness through AP Courses, Partnerships, and Social Networks
Location: Convention Center Tampa CC, Room 20, First Floor

Tommy Jolly Georgia State University – Speaker 2: Promoting College Writing Readiness in Light of Sociocultural Theory
8:00am-9:15am F.21   Global Contexts for Writing Education and Research
Location: Marriott Marriott, Meeting Room 2, Level Two

Yunye Yu Georgia State University – Speaker 2: Beijing Mongolian Language and Culture School Project: A Case of preserving and promoting “minority” culture through literacy movement in a multi-cultural society
9:30am-10:45am G.36   Risky Disclosure: Mental Illness and Teachers of Writing
Location: Convention Center Tampa CC, Room 18, First Floor

Chair: Stephanie Horton Georgia State University
12:30pm-1:45pm I.39   The Risk and Promise of Relational Work
Location: Convention Center Tampa CC, Room 18, First Floor

Chair and Respondent: Lynee Gaillet Georgia State University
2:00pm-3:15pm J.14   Rethinking Composition: Rhetorical Pasts and Futures
Location: Marriott Marriott, Meeting Room 4, Level Two

Jennifer Forsthoefel Georgia State University – Speaker 3: Risks and Rewards: A Disciplinary Critique of the Rhetorical Pasts and Futures for Composition Studies, Writing Center Studies, and Women’s Studies
Saturday, March 21
11:00am-12:15pm M.24   Transfer, Metacognition, and Revision: Teaching the Writing Process with Digital and Visual Technologies
Location: Marriott Marriott, Grand Ballroom J, Level Two

Chair: Jennifer Forsthoefel Georgia State University

Friday, March 20, 2015, from 7:30 – 8:45 p.m. (after the SIGs)

 

 

 

Ongoing

Ignite Showcase

Location: ??

Laura Anderson Georgia State University – Civic Engagement, CCCCs-Style: Empowering Slacktivist Rhetors to Enact Social Change

 

Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives (DALN) – Table outside exhibits.

Co-Director: Michael Harker

Volunteers: Valerie Robin, Matthew Sansbury, Doug Hall, Kateland Wolf

 

Public Address Conference 10/16-10/18

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The Communications Department is offering a Public Address conference next week with dozens of leading rhetorical scholars here on October 16-18. See the program and information here: http://publicaddressconferencegsu2014.com/

Dr. Cara Finnegan, a top visual rhetorical scholar, will also be on campus the following week. She is meeting with the RSA at GSU club on October 20th at noon in the Dept. of Communication’s 8th floor conference room, 25 Park Place. Dr. Finnegan is also meeting with the Proseminar on Tuesday the 21st at 3:30, same location, and anyone is welcome to attend.