Cfp: "Enabling Complexities: Communities / Writing / Rhetoric," Rhetoric and Writing Program, Michigan State University, October 7–9, 2009.

Update:
Access the conference website here: http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/~femrhet/.

Original Post (November 8, 2008):
The 7th Biennial Conference on Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) of Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.
We invite proposals that:

• reflect the complexity and diversity of who "we" are as a scholarly community;
• make manifest the deep structure of the connections, intersections, and overlaps that actually make us a community;
• help articulate who "we" are as a deliberate community of scholars, and what that means about our responsibilities and relationships to one another across scholarly areas and institutional positions;
• highlight scholarly and teacherly activities that deliberately create space for more complex notions of scholarship and teaching within the discipline of Rhet/Comp;
• include and significantly engage communities outside of the academy;
• focus on antiracist pedagogies and scholarship; present interdisciplinary scholarship in Afrafeminist Rhetorics; American Indian Rhetorics, Chicana Rhetorics, Asian American Rhetorics, post/neo-colonial rhetorics;
• highlight the intellectual traditions of women’s communities, especially communities constellated around specific identity markers such as race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation issues, geographic origins;
• explore the relationships between written, oral, and material discursive production;
• and other topics that address the connections in the conference theme.

We also welcome proposals on relevant topics not directly addressed above, that significantly engage disciplines other than Rhet/Comp, and that have consequences for communities located outside of the academy. Although traditional presentations are acceptable, we encourage participants to create formats that go beyond the read-aloud academic paper. Interactive sessions that include discussions, dialogues, and performances are especially welcome. Proposals should be uploaded to the FemRhet 2009 web site (www.femrhet.cwshrc.org), and can be for: *20-minute individual presentations (250-word proposals) *90-minute 3–4 member panels (500-word proposals) *90-minute workshops or roundtables (500-word proposals) Please plan to submit a title, a proposal the length indicated above, and a program-ready, booklet-friendly 50-word blurb for the presentation. Proposal System: December 15, 2008 Open Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2009 Acceptances Distributed: April 30, 2009

For more information: Contact Malea Powell (powell37@msu.edu), Nancy DeJoy (dejoy@msu.edu), or Rhea Lathan (lathan@msu.edu).