CFP: Teaching Conflicts & the Culture Wars (9/5/05; 9/30/05)

Michigan College English Association Fall 2005 Conference

Facing Conflicts: Culture Wars, Teaching Values, Coping with the War in Iraq
& Social Conflict

Friday, September 30, 2005
Michigan State University, Union Building, East Lansing MI

Featured Speaker: Jeffrey Seidel of the Detroit Free Press
"One Journalist’s View of Conflict"

(early submissions encouraged; proposals due by 5 Sep. 2005)

During a time of warfare abroad and cultural conflict at home, we teachers
need to empower students to think critically so that they can cope with many
different kinds of conflicts inside and outside the classroom. How do works
of fiction, poetry, film, and memoir discuss values and evaluate conflicts
and wars? What cultural conflicts should we discuss in college classrooms?
How political should our classrooms be? Which social issues (death penalty,
display of the Ten Commandments, euthanasia, abortion) work well for term
papers and other assignments? What conflicts do we face within the
classroom and the department and also between the English department and
other college departments? How does the collaborative classroom handle
conflicts? What conflicts and choices do we face with new technology and
on-line classes? How concerned with global issues should our classrooms be?

The Michigan College English Association seeks proposals for individual
papers and for complete or open panels for our Fall 2005 meeting. We look
forward to receiving proposals on diverse topics from experienced academics
as well as from young scholars and graduate students. We also welcome
poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction from creative writers.
Although we are calling for papers and panels that reflect the conference
theme, we welcome a variety of proposals in any of the areas English and
Writing departments encompass: e.g., composition and rhetoric; computers and
writing; creative writing; critical pedagogy; critical studies in the
teaching of English; cultural studies; film studies; film and composition;
film and literature; developmental education; English as a second language;
linguistics; literary studies; multicultural literature; on-line English
courses and the virtual university; popular culture; race, class, and gender
studies; progressive education; reading and writing across the curriculum;
student demographics; student/instructor accountability and assessment;
student placement; study skills; technical writing.

Early submissions are encouraged. Proposals will be accepted throughout the
summer and are due no later than September 5, 2005, for late notification by
September 15, 2005. Please submit proposals to Janet Heller, MCEA Program
Chair, via email: janet.heller_at_wmich.edu
or send your proposals to Janet Heller, MCEA Program Chair; Department of
English; Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, MI 49008.

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