Corrections to the Schedule

  • June 6, 2011 4:34 pm

Everyone,

I’m giving it a few days before I post schedule corrects just so everyone has a chance to look over the list. If you submitted a panel and would like the titles of your individual talks listed, please let me know. Because they were blind review I don’t have links between names and titles for all panels. Also, please be sure to send any corrections to me as I’m sure there are some typos. I’ll try to get the corrections up and out to everyone by Thursday!

Acceptances and Payment Information

  • May 16, 2011 4:45 pm

Hello everyone,
I’ll be sending out acceptance notices Friday, May 20th. Because of the web glitches, we’re just a few days behind!

The payment and registration information is, however, updated on the Payment Information page. You can click on the provided link for further information!

On Late Proposals

  • April 26, 2011 2:53 pm

Hello all,

I’ve gotten a few inquiries about submitting a proposal a few days late and the answer is, yes, that’s fine. We have just started collecting and coding the submissions for our reviewers (we’re doing blind review) and we can handle a number of extra proposals until then. The committee has recommended that the absolute cut off day is midnight on May 1st.

Ride-Sharing and Carpooling

As discussed on the travel and local information pages, Mankato is roughly one hour from the Twin Cities and there are a variety of ways to get to and from and airport. However, in the interest of saving gas and cutting costs, please use the comments forum on this page to post your travel and contact information if you are willing to share a rental car or will be traveling to and from Mankato in a car. If you can post the following it should help individuals connect in the process of getting to the conference:

Name
Date and Time of Arrival
Date and Time of Departure
Method of Transportation
Email/Phone Number

Call for Proposals: Fem Rhet 2011

  • April 5, 2011 10:59 pm

Submit a proposal to Fem Rhet 2011 at the registration link

The theme of the 2011 Feminisms and Rhetorics conference is “Feminist Challenges or Feminist Rhetorics?: Locations, Scholarship and Discourse.” The Feminisms and Rhetorics conference is sponsored by the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition http://cwshrc.org/, and will be hosted by Minnesota State University, Mankato <http://www.mnsu.edu> October 12-15, 2011.

The conference committee is strongly interdisciplinary and therefore our theme seeks to recognize the spaces between disciplines and communities. The conference theme is meant to acknowledge the academic and socio-discursive spaces that feminisms, and rhetorics on or about feminisms, inhabit. Major political, religious and social leaders have recently discussed feminism, including the Dalai Lama, but the discussion seems to revolve around cultural or essentialized discourses of feminism.

This spotlight on feminism is, of course, not new, and they ways feminism is engaged in public discourse is much different than that of academic discourse. However, in Rhetoric and Composition, we have seen many significant publications lately focusing on what it means to be a woman in the field, how to be a successful woman in the field, and the connections between feminist theory and feminist pedagogy.

We seek proposals that speak to the challenges and diversities of feminist rhetoric and discourse, in public and private life, in the academy, and in the media. We welcome proposals on topics that significantly engage disciplines other than Rhetoric and Composition, and that have consequences for communities located outside of the academy. Questions to consider include:

    What are the discourses of feminism?
    Where are they located?
    What does feminist scholarship look like in the 21st century? What is the politic of feminist scholarship?
    How does feminist inquiry impact our understanding of scholarship?
    What are the challenges faced by feminists inside and outside of the academy? Where do we find feminist rhetorics?
    How do we understand the function of feminist rhetoric?
    How has interdisciplinarity impacted the feminist agenda?
    How do we understand the politics of inclusion in 21st century feminism?
    How might we add to Joanna Russ’ invective: “She wrote it, BUT.?”

In the past few years, women have made, yet again, publicly recognized strides in breaking through a variety of glass ceilings, however, current events in places like Arizona, illustrate the necessity of a renewed feminist politic. The recursive nature of feminism is not new, and is, in fact, embodied in the rhetorical struggle for place in dominant discourse.

On the submission and registration page, you will find options for panel, roundtable, or individual submissions. If you have any questions, please email Kirsti Cole at kirsti [dot] cole [at] mnsu [dot] edu.

UPDATED DEADLINE: APRIL 25th, 2011

Acceptance to the conference will be sent out no later than May 15, 2011.