Clemson Awarded RSA Grant for CRC

RSA Announces Graduate Student Special Event Award

[RePosted from RSA website]

RSA is proud to announce that Clemson University’s RSA Student Chapter is the sole recipient of the 2011-2012 RSA Graduate Student Special Event Award. They will receive $2450 in support of the Carolina Rhetoric Conference.

The award committee reviewed numerous proposals for interesting and important graduate student events around the country. However, Clemson’s proposal distinguished itself by demonstrating a wide-reaching opportunity for graduate students of rhetoric. The award committee was particularly impressed by Clemson’s effort to reach across many graduate programs, to create numerous venues for students’ scholarly and professional development, and to utilize digital technologies creatively.

In February 2012, Clemson's RSA chapter will host the Carolina Rhetoric Conference (CRC), an annual event that brings together graduate students from North and South Carolina. The CRC provides graduate students in the region with opportunities to share their research, build a network of rhetoric scholars in the Carolinas, and to receive feedback on conference presentations before presenting at major national conventions. The event is alternatively hosted by RSA chapters at NC State, the University of South Carolina, and Clemson. This year, Clemson plans to expand the conference by inviting graduate students from additional rhetoric programs. In addition, they plan to include various networking events, a digital showcase, keynote speakers, workshops, and live blogging during the event followed by a series of round-up blogs after the event.

2012 Carolina Rhetoric Conference - Feb. 17-18

Clemson's S3S/RCID program to host the 2012 Carolina Rhetoric Conference, February 17-18. Submissions (abstracts) are due Dec. 1st by email (clemsoncrc2012@gmail.com). There will be 3 session types: Individual Presentations ("traditional" panels), Showcase Session (digital/physical "poster session"), and Works-In-Progress Roundtables.



See the full CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS HERE.

Conference Clearinghouse

ATTW
12th Annual ATTW Conference - March 11th, 2009 - San Francisco, CA
Theme: Beyond Work? Technical Communication in Professional, Community, & Social Networks
CFP deadline: 300 word proposals are due October 31st, 2008
http://cms.english.ttu.edu/attw/conference/2009-conference-cfp

PCA/ACA Pop Culture/American Culture: (No Theme)
National PCA/ACA Conference New Orleans Marriott Hotel April 8-11, 2009
CFP: 100 to 250 word abstract due November 30, 2008
http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php

STC
May 3-6, 2009 Atlanta, GA
Proposal deadline Oct. 20, 2008
http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2009/
This is a good conference for someone who is interested in usability, training, documentation, and other industry practices.

IPCC
July 19-22 2009, Hawaii
Proposal deadline Oct 30, 2008
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pcs/files/IPCC-CallForPapers-2%201.pdf

CPTSC
Oct 2-4, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
http://www.unomaha.edu/cptsc2008/
2009 conference University of Aarhus (theme not defined yet)

IABC (International Association of Business Communication)
June 7-10, 2009 CFP is not out yet
http://www.iabc.com/ic/

ICCC
www. iaics.org is currently unavailable
Computer & Writing
June 16-19, 2009, UC-Davis
Proposal Deadline: Sept 19, 2008
http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu/carlwhithaus/cw09_8_cfp.html
This is a good conference to go to if you are interested in employing technologies in teaching writing.

24th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications
March 25-27, 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana USA
http://www.isca-hq.org/CATA-2009-CFP.pdf
Sponsored by the International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA)
The topics will include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Algorithms, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Computer-aided Design/manufacturing, Real-time Computing, Computing Practice and Applications
Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission (PDF only). A full paper, including title, author's name(s) and affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax and email of the principal author, should be submitted before October 13, 2008 at the following web site:
https://secure.myhostadvantage.com/V0015065FC/con-reg/default.asp?ConID=81
Full paper Submission Deadline: October 13, 2008 Notification of Acceptance:
December 12, 2008 Pre-registration and Camera-ready paper due: January 9, 2009

Expanding Literacy Studies - International, Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students
April 3-5, 2009, The Ohio State University
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2008
Website: www.literacystudies.osu.edu/conference
Theme: This conference aims to expand the dialogue and explore the landscape and intersections of literacy studies as a framework of critical investigation. This approach is meant to do the double work of expanding the field while critiquing the expansion. To that end, we invite proposals from graduate and professional students in ALL fields.
POSSIBLE TOPICS AND POINTS OF ENTRY: health literacy, literacy and technology, visual literacy, representations of literacy, definitions of literacy, law and literacy, art literacy, uses and abuses of literacy, motivations for literacy, symbol systems, the sociology of literacy, the teaching of literacy, reading and writing, literacy and science, performances of literacy, literacy and popular culture, the future of literacy, histories of literacy, intersections of literacy, production and consumption of texts, multiple literacies, the literacy myth, literacy and social change, sites of literacy, literacy in communities, work literacy.