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From: "J.Rice" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 1:35 PM
Subject: CFP: Computers and Writing 2007: Virtual Urbanism (12/20/06;
5/17/07-5/20/07)
> Computers and Writing 2007: Virtual Urbanism
>
> May 17-20, 2007
> Wayne State University
> Detroit, Michigan
>
> Deadline for proposals: midnight, December 20, 2006.
> Website for proposal submission and information:
> http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/~cw07/cw07
>
> Featured Speakers:
> Geoffrey Sirc, Professor of English, University of Minnesota
> Hellen Liggett, Professor of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
> Richard Doyal, Professor of English, Penn State University
>
> The conference theme juxtaposes computers and writing with contemporary
> city life, representations of the urban, and the virtual encounters we
> create when technology and textuality are introduced into our places of
> work, study, and pleasure. Detroit, Michigan offers a unique opportunity
> to consider the effects of rhetoric and writing on the urban experience,
> an experience constantly shaped and reshpaed by emerging and existing
> technological issues, from the birth of the assembly line at the Ford
> Motor Company to the introduction of techno music. Today, new kinds of
> projects, like the New Center's Digital Detroit and Wayne State
> University's concept of TechTown, are creating new kinds of urban
> experiences.
>
> In addition to the featured keynote speakers, Computers and Writing 2007
> will feature local artists, webloggers, and activists who explore the
> assemblages of technology, writing, and city space. Through the
> participation of keynote speakers, featured guests, and conference
> presenters and participants, Computers and Writing 2007 will integrate
> issues of virtual urbanism with those concerns writing and rhetoric
> professionals face today.
>
> Participants may speak on any topic normally relevant to computers and
> writing, but we will encourage papers which speak to the issues raised by
> the juxtaposition of the urban, technology, and space.
>
> We encourage participants to generalize outward from Detroit to think
> creatively about relationships among city spaces, writing, and technology.
>
> While all submissions will be considered, we encourage submissions in
> response to the following:
>
> * What are the relationships between place and digital writing?
> * What are the places we write in and communicate within?
> * How has the urban changed, maintained, complicated understandings of
> technology?
> * What are the new writing spaces for pedagogy and research?
> * What do we mean by virtuality or space?
> * How has the university become or not become a virtual space of
> learning?
> * What kinds of virtual pedagogies can we imagine for our future work
> in the profession?
>
> Following previous Computers and Writing conferences, we strongly
> encourage proposals for workshops, which will take place on March 17.
>
> We will also accept proposals for
> "@Get Info: A Preview of Conference Papers at the CW07"
> A successful event at CW06, @Get Info gives presenters the chance to sell,
> seduce, enchant, thrill, educate, influence, and persuade conference
> participants to attend their session - all in a 60-second "show and tell."
>
> During @Get Info, presenters can do anything they wish to encourage
> attendance at their sessions, from showing video clips, animation, still
> images, Power Point slides, and sound files, to performing skits and
> routines. Presenters who attempt to go beyond their allotted time are
> given the "buzzer" and sent off the stage by the moderators.
>
>
> We look forward to seeing you in Detroit.
>
> Please direct any questions to
> Jeff Rice
> Assistant Professor English
> Wayne State University
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
>
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> J.Rice
> Assistant Professor of English
> Wayne State University
> http://www.english.wayne.edu/People/faculty/ricej/index2.html
> http://www.ydog.net/
>
>
>
> "This is Detroit, in case you all forgot"
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