Call For Papers“To borrow another conceptual metaphor, we are speaking about the ways in which rhetorical processes operate within a viral economy. The intensity, force, and circulatory range of a rhetoric are always expanding through the mutations and new exposures attached to that given rhetoric, much like a virus. An ecological, or affective, rhetorical model is one that reads rhetoric both as a process of distributed emergence and as an ongoing circulation process.”
— Jenny Rice, “Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies” |
Call for Papers
Margins 2019
Submission Deadline: December 10th
Conference Date: March 8
In 2005, Jenny Rice suggested that we might move away from notions of rhetorical discourse as situated in a fixed place and time, with a specific aim and audience, towards an ecological view of rhetoric, where circulating texts transform rhetors, audiences, spaces, and events. Like biological ecologies, rhetorical ecologies are fluid rather than fixed, permeable rather than bounded. The Clemson University English Department invites graduate students from all disciplines to join us as we explore ecologies at the 2019 Margins Conference. Our theme of ecologies invites contributors to consider how ecological thinking can shed light on the intertwined symbolic and material forces of our shared world. From the viral spread of the “Me Too” movement to the ecological impacts of the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, today’s world demands scholarship that can grapple with the dynamic interrelations between language, rhetoric, things, places, people, and events.
We invite proposals addressing rhetorical, literary, political, or environmental ecologies. We welcome theoretical examinations as well as applications of ecological approaches to specific texts, contexts, and events. Topics of interest for the 2019 Margins Conference might include: globalization, environmental activism and sustainability, literary ecologies, social networks and digital rhetoric, academic and institutional ecosystems, urbanization, and design.
At Margins, we hope scholars in rhetoric, literature, linguistics, and other disciplines will join us in considering the affordances and limitations of ecologies as both a theoretical framework and an analytical tool. Ecological studies might look to the past, present, or future. Ecological thinking asks scholars to cross boundaries, to link topics and concerns that are traditionally treated as separate, and so we welcome interdisciplinary conversations on any topic where an ecological approach might be provocative or generative.
Submissions may include individual paper or poster presentations, panels, or digital/multimodal compositions. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words for individual presentations and 750 words for panels. The submission deadline is December 10, 2018. Accepted authors will be notified by 15 Jan. 2019. All questions regarding the conference should be directed to the organizing committee at [email protected].
Interested in submitting?
Submission Deadline: December 10th
Conference Date: March 8
In 2005, Jenny Rice suggested that we might move away from notions of rhetorical discourse as situated in a fixed place and time, with a specific aim and audience, towards an ecological view of rhetoric, where circulating texts transform rhetors, audiences, spaces, and events. Like biological ecologies, rhetorical ecologies are fluid rather than fixed, permeable rather than bounded. The Clemson University English Department invites graduate students from all disciplines to join us as we explore ecologies at the 2019 Margins Conference. Our theme of ecologies invites contributors to consider how ecological thinking can shed light on the intertwined symbolic and material forces of our shared world. From the viral spread of the “Me Too” movement to the ecological impacts of the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, today’s world demands scholarship that can grapple with the dynamic interrelations between language, rhetoric, things, places, people, and events.
We invite proposals addressing rhetorical, literary, political, or environmental ecologies. We welcome theoretical examinations as well as applications of ecological approaches to specific texts, contexts, and events. Topics of interest for the 2019 Margins Conference might include: globalization, environmental activism and sustainability, literary ecologies, social networks and digital rhetoric, academic and institutional ecosystems, urbanization, and design.
At Margins, we hope scholars in rhetoric, literature, linguistics, and other disciplines will join us in considering the affordances and limitations of ecologies as both a theoretical framework and an analytical tool. Ecological studies might look to the past, present, or future. Ecological thinking asks scholars to cross boundaries, to link topics and concerns that are traditionally treated as separate, and so we welcome interdisciplinary conversations on any topic where an ecological approach might be provocative or generative.
Submissions may include individual paper or poster presentations, panels, or digital/multimodal compositions. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words for individual presentations and 750 words for panels. The submission deadline is December 10, 2018. Accepted authors will be notified by 15 Jan. 2019. All questions regarding the conference should be directed to the organizing committee at [email protected].
Interested in submitting?