Carolina Rhetoric Conference 2013: Emerging Rhetorics. Hosted by the Hosted by the Rhetoric Society of America Student<br /> Chapter at North Carolina State University on on April 19-20, 2013 in Raleigh, NC.View Carolina Rhetoric Conference 2013 info

Call for Papers

 

Emerging Rhetorics

Carolina Rhetoric Conference
April 18-19, 2013
Hosted by NC State's Rhetoric Society of America Student Chapter
Raleigh, NC

Submission deadline: February 1, 2013
Acceptance notifications: Februrary 15, 2013

Twitter: @CarolinaRhetCon
Email: carolinarhetoriccon@gmail.com

NC State's Rhetoric Society of America Student Chapter invites you to submit scholarly work for presentation at the 2013 Carolina Rhetoric Conference. This year’s conference theme is Emerging Rhetorics. In light of this conference theme, the organizers invite you to think about rhetorics as situated and contextual—materially, culturally, historically. Possible questions we might engage include: How do new media environments inflect theories of rhetoric? How are historical forms of media and rhetorics relevant to current studies of rhetoric? What methodologies might we draw upon or develop in order to engage these questions?

While submissions fitting this theme are encouraged, other proposals addressing other aspects of rhetoric are welcome. Additionally, graduate students from all disciplines are welcome. There is no registration fee. To submit a proposal, click here.
 

Invited submission types:

  1. Panel presentation: 3-4 individual papers on a common theme or topic. Submissions can be scholarly papers and/or multimedia presentations with creator commentary before/during/after. Audio/visual support will be available. Presentations will be followed by a short Q&A session. Submission requirements: 500 word justification for panel, plus individual presentation titles with speaker names and affiliations
     
  2. Individual paper presentation: An individual scholarly paper or multimedia presentation with creator commentary before/during/after.  Audio/visual support will be available. Individual paper submissions will be grouped into a panel by the conference organizers. Submission requirements: 250 word abstract
     
  3. Interactive installation: Installations can include a digital poster, art installation, software demonstration, video, etc. We encourage you to be creative! Installations will be presented jointly with the CRDM Symposium during an evening reception. Interactive installations will be presented similarly to a traditional poster session where presenters will display their work as attendees browse through the installations. Submission requirements: 250 word abstract of your project, plus a detailed description of your technology needs. Please be as detailed as possible in your technological requirements so that we will be able to accommodate your needs.
     
  4. Research network forum: Scholars will bring in-progress papers to share with 3-4 peers and one local or guest faculty in order to get feedback and direction for future revision and/or publication. Submission requirements: 250 word abstract of work in progress 

Podcast Series

This year, the CRC will be producing and distributing a series of podcasts. With the consent of each presenter, the CRC will record audio of each formal presentation. Additionally, conference attendees will be invited to engage in informal "lightning talks." These brief discussions will provide an opportunity to informally pose a question or assert a statement for the larger community to discuss—a question or issue that arose over a meal at the conference, a provocative thought that arose during the Q&A portion of a panel, an enlightnening exchange that occurred between presentations.

Participants will be able to license their contributions under a Creative Commons license of their choosing; the CRC will then make these podcasts available on the conference website in both streaming and downloadable formats after the conference has concluded. Scholars from around the country will be invited to add their own voices to the discussions by commenting on the podcast and/or annotating the audio files. In short, we hope to extend the intellectual energy of the conference to a wider community of rhetorical scholars.

Joint Event With The CRDM Symposium

The CRC will be held jointly with the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program's 4th annual research symposium, "Emerging Genres, Forms, and Narratives in New Media Environments," which will take place Friday, April 19 through saturday, April 20, 2013 on the NC State campus. The symposium aims to bring together a variety of disciplinary voices in a discussion of emergent genres, forms, and narratives in the digital age. Several events will be held jointly by the CRC and CRDM Symposium on Friday, and participants in each event will be able to attend sessions at the other. For more information about the CRDM Symposium, click here.