Feminism and Rhetoric – 2013 CFP
CFP Feminisms and Rhetorics 2013
Linked: Rhetorics, Feminisms, and Global Communities
The Program in Writing and Rhetoric and the Hume Writing Center invite proposals for the Ninth Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics conference, to be held at Stanford University September 25-28, 2013. Our emphasis this year is on links, the connections between people, between places, between times, between movements. The conference theme—Linked: Rhetorics, Feminisms, and Global Communities—reflects Stanford’s setting in the heart of Silicon Valley, a real as well as virtual space with links to every corner of the globe. We aim for a conference that will be multi-vocal, multi-modal, multi-lingual, and inter-disciplinary, one in which we will work together to articulate the contours of feminist rhetorics.
Building on the 2011 conference, with its focus on the challenges and opportunities of feminism, the 2013 conference will seek to explore links between and among local and global, academic and nonacademic, past and present, public and private, and online and offline communities. In particular, we invite conversations about cross-cultural and global rhetorics, science and technology, entrepreneurship, outreach, or intersections among these.
We invite proposals (panels or individual submissions) treating any links between feminisms and rhetorics. The following questions are of particular interest:
- What links do we make or fail/neglect to make in the work we do (in communities, in our field(s), in the classroom setting, across cultures)?
- How are cross-cultural rhetorics embodied?
- How do feminist rhetorics intersect with/operate in global, social, financial, activist, and communication networks? How can we use these links for productive outreach?
- How does or can writing link multimedia worlds?
- What are the specific spaces (geographical, virtual, etc.) where solidarities (strategic, impermanent, etc.) are formed? How do new audiences, contexts, ideas, movements emerge in these spaces? How are the feminisms of the 21st century “linked in”?
- What kind of genderings/racings/classings happen in the rhetorical situations of internet-based social networks?
- How does the link between feminism and rhetoric help us interrogate nationalism, fundamentalism, violence, and/or war?
- What can feminist theory/ies bring to cross/intercultural communication? How can entrepreneurial or social-entrepreneurial efforts help us redefine or improve cross/intercultural communication and outreach?
- How might the study of intercultural rhetorics enrich and complicate accepted narratives of feminisms, western rhetoric and science?
Deadline for submission: February 1, 2013
Questions or comments? femrhet2013@stanford.edu
