PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for this area has been extended to 31 December
2002!
The 24th Annual Conference of the Southwest/Texas
Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association
February 12-15, 2003 -- Albuquerque, New Mexico
http://www.swtexaspca.org/
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca/
Composition & Rhetoric Area
Michael Carlson Kapper, Area Chair
Call for Papers
Rhetoric and culture can be seen, in many ways, as parts of the
same whole: They impact, shape, and inform each other; culture
marks the territory of rhetoric, guiding kairos,shaping good sense
and good manners, providing topics, and serving as arbiter of
style; rhetorical praxis in turn shapes cultural events, artifacts,
and practices, naming them, evaluating them, describing them, and
bringing about -- and limiting -- understanding of them.
We invite papers, then, that explore the dimensions of this
interaction, especially the interaction of rhetoric (or composition
studies) with popular culture. Of course, broad interpretation of
the terms rhetoric, composition, popular, and culture is strongly
encouraged, and no preference will be given to any particular
construction of these concepts or to any particular methodological
approach to these terms and their related topics.
Possible Topics Include:
-Exploration of the relationship between rhetoric/composition
and (popular) culture
-Theories of cultural rhetoric(s)
-Rhetorical Praxis (as depicted) in popular culture
-Speech rhetoric(s) in the culture(s) of democracy
-Rhetorics of security
-Rhetorics of mass journalism, communication, and media
-Rhetorics of demonization
-Cultural Studies or Popular Culture composition pedagogies
-Composition and Public Speaking as cultural practices
-Composition and Speech Communication instruction as cultural
practices
-Rhetoric(s) of religion
-Propaganda
This list should not be considered either exhaustive or limiting.
Proposals dealing with any elements of rhetoric, composition, and
(popular) culture -- however the terms and their intersections are
constructed -- are most welcome.
Proposals may be for individual papers (which will be combined
into panels), or complete panels of 3 to 5 speakers. Alternative
formats (workshops, roundtables, etc.) may be accommodated;
feel free to propose them.
Individuals please send 300-word abstract detailing you proposed
project.
Panels please send abstract for each paper and abstract for
presentation, detailing how papers will create a cohesive session,
no more than 1,500 words, total.
Alternative formats send 600-word abstract detailing project and
format, and explaining why the proposed format will enhance the
presentation.
Email proposals as text in message body, in MSWord (.doc),
WordPerfect (.wpd), or Acrobat format (.pdf) or send by postal mail.
Address proposals and Questions to:
Michael Carlson Kapper
Department of English
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
Or, via email, to:
kapper@purdue.edu
Please note that each presenter may only present one paper at the
2003 Conference of The Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA.
And remember, "If it's not popular, it's not culture!"
To help with publicity for this area, visit:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kapper/scholarship/swtexaspca_rc2003.html
and click on the "Get the Flyer" link.
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More information on the 2003 meeting:
Special Events:
-Free trip to the Isleta Casino Gambling Palace
-Annual Mexico PCA reception with music and celebrities
-Luncheon featuring a guest speaker, TBA
(2002 guest speaker was mystery writer Tony Hillerman).
Special Guests:
-Ray and Pat Browne, founders of our national movement
-Kathy Merlock Jackson, President of the American Culture Association
-Jim Welsh, Editor, Literature/Film Quarterly.
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