BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT LOCATION:University of Copenhagen\, Denmark SEQUENCE:0 DTEND:20130118T000000 DTSTART:20130115T000000 UID:2013-05-24T09:36:33-04:00_450288792@tcs4.inetu.net DTSTAMP:20130524T093633 DESCRIPTION:\nCall for Papers\n\nRhetoric in Society 4\n\n&ldquo\;Contempor ary Rhetorical Citizenship: \nPurposes\, Practices\, and Perspectives&rdquo \;\n\nDepartment of Media\, Cognition\, and Communication\nSection of Rheto ric\nUniversity of Copenhagen\nJanuary 15-18\, 2013\n\nGreetings all\,\n\nT his is the first bulletin of the fourth biennial Rhetoric in Society Confer ence to be held January 15-18\, 2013 at the University of Copenhagen\, Denm ark.\n\nWith this bulletin\, we want to invite you to do two things: mark y our calendars and start thinking about how you might contribute to the conf erence with your scholarship.\n\nBelow\, we introduce the theme of the conf erence and provide basic information about the various presentation formats .\n\nWithin a few weeks\, we will contact you again with more information a bout the conference program\, key-note speakers\, and how to submit an abst ract.\n\nIn the planning of the conference we wish to promote discussion am ong conference attendees. One way is to set time aside for discussion in al l meetings\, another is to allow for regular breaks\, and a third way is to arrange social gatherings suitable to networking and amicable conversation . We hope you will come and be part of the discussion!\n\nTheme\n\nThe them e for this fourth conference on Rhetoric in Society is &ldquo\;Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship: Purposes\, Practices\, and Perspectives&rdquo\;.\n \nWith the concept of rhetorical citizenship we want to draw critical atten tion to the ways in which being a citizen in a modern democratic state is i n many respects a discursive phenomenon. Citizenship is not just a conditio n such as holding a passport\, it is not just behavior such as voting\; cit izenship also has a communicative aspect: Some perform citizenship when the y watch a political debate on TV or discuss a program about homeless people with their colleagues over lunch - or when\, one day\, they don&rsquo\;t d uck behind the fence but engage their cranky neighbor in conversation about her views on city street lighting. Others enact citizenship when they enga ge in political debates on Facebook or Twitter or join their friends in com ing up with the most poignant wording for a protest sign the day before a s treet demonstration. And for others still\, &ldquo\;rhetorical citizenship& rdquo\; is a distant ideal far from the realities of their everyday life\; because the legal citizenship\, literacy\, and media access that such a con ception of citizenship often presupposes aren&rsquo\;t within their reach\, their experience with rhetorical citizenship is one of exclusion.\n\nRheto ric\, with its double character as academic discipline and practice\, stand s in a unique position to engage the linguistic and discursive aspects of c ollective civic engagement. Drawing on and in collaboration with neighborin g fields of inquiry such as political science\, discourse studies\, linguis tics\, media studies\, informal logic\, practical philosophy and social ant hropology\, scholars of rhetoric are able to study actual communicative beh avior as it circulates in various fora and spheres &ndash\; from face to fa ce encounters to mediated discourse. With our diverse theoretical and metho dological backgrounds we hold many keys to pressing concerns such as the al leged polarization and coarsening of the &lsquo\;tone&rsquo\; in public deb ate\, the turning away from political engagement toward smaller spheres of interest\, and the general difficulty in making politics work constructivel y in many parts of the world\, not least the EU.\n\nWe invite attendees &nd ash\; scholars\, teachers\, students\, and citizens across a range of disci plinary traditions &ndash\; to extend our knowledge of the social roles of rhetoric through theoretical and critical study\, and to consider our roles as public intellectuals: how are we to name\, describe\, criticize\, analy ze\, and\, indeed\, undertake or teach rhetorical action on matters of comm unal concern whether locally\, nationally\, or internationally?\n\nWe invit e papers that help address questions such as\, e.g.:\n\n* How is rhetorical citizenship to be defined and developed as a critical frame for studying r hetoric in society?\n\n* What conditions must obtain for rhetorical citizen ship to be possible and thrive?\n\n* What rhetorical processes and maneuver s can be observed in practitioners of rhetorical citizenship?\n\n* How is r hetorical citizenship instantiated across genres\, settings\, and cultural or geographical settings?\n\n* How is rhetorical citizenship experienced di fferently\, even controversially\, depending on power differentials and soc ial or regional constraints?\n\n* How can rhetorical history and pedagogy s erve as a resource for contemporary theory\, practice and critique of rheto rical citizenship?\n\n* What disciplinary connections need to be made or re invigorated for fruitful interdisciplinary work on rhetorical citizenship?\ n\n* What are potentials and pitfalls for sound and dynamic public rhetoric al engagement?\n\n* What is good and what is poor rhetorical citizenship?\n \nYour contribution to the conference\n\nPlease consider submitting a panel \, individual\, poster and/or special session proposal that speaks to the c onference theme.\n\nIn addition to the specified length requirements (see b elow)\, please include in an abstract: the title of the paper\, name(s) of presenter(s)\, the nature of the material for analysis/the &lsquo\;case&rsq uo\;\, the guiding research question and/or overall argument as well as ide ntification of the theoretical and/or methodological basis of the inquiry.\ n\nPanel proposals\, individual proposals\, and special format proposals wi ll all be placed in sessions of 60 - 90 minutes. Generally\, 30 minutes wil l be set aside for each presentation to be used in this manner: 15-20 minut es for the presentation and 5-10 minutes for questions and discussion with the audience. After each presentation a few minutes should be set aside to allow audience members to leave the room and go to a different session.\n\n Submission options\n\n1) Panel proposals\n\nPanels should consist of 3-4 pr esentations and preferably a respondent. A panel will have a 90-minute slot of which 20-30 minutes should be set off for discussion. Proposals should include a 250 word abstract for each individual presentation. Proposals sho uld be no more than 1250 words in total.\n\nPanel organizers are strongly e ncouraged to invite a respondent to initiate and lead discussion after the presentations.\n\n2) Individual proposals\n\nIndividual presentations will be given a slot of 30 minutes of which 5-10 minutes should be set off for d iscussion and time to allow audience members to change rooms. Proposals sho uld include a 250 word abstract.\n\nIndividual papers will be grouped accor ding to topic and/or theoretical approach by the conference planners. Once the program is ready\, we encourage presenters on each session to exchange papers two weeks in advance of the conference in order to participate in a common discussion of the papers toward the end of the session.\n\n3) Specia l format proposals\n\nSpecial format sessions of 60-90 minutes are invited. Special format proposals are meant to encourage panels that are unusual in format\, especially those that invite the active participating of both pre senters and audiences. Consider such formats as debates\, a series of short position papers designed to generate discussion\, roundtables\, screenings of rhetorical performances followed by discussion\, workshops or other spe cial formats. In addition to explaining the nature of the special format\, the technical requirements needed to carry it through\, and the estimated t ime need\, proposals for such sessions should adhere to the formal requirem ents of &lsquo\;regular&rsquo\; panels\, i.e.\, analytical focus\, theory\, and explain the role of the participants\, and the goals and aims of the s ession. The word limit is 350 words.\n\n4) Poster proposals\n\nA poster is a visual artefact of &lsquo\;poster&rsquo\; size that represents a scholarl y project on the conference theme in a visual/graphic manner. Posters will be exhibited in designated areas throughout the conference area\, and there will be time set aside for conference participants to study the posters an d discuss them with the presenters in an informal manner. Posters may prese nt work not otherwise presented at the conference.\n\nSubmit your proposal\ n\nProposals should be submitted to the conference website by March 1\, 201 2. We will notify you when we are ready to accept submissions.\n\nIn upcomi ng bulletins we will provide information about when and how to submit propo sals.\n\nConference website\n\nThe conference website for RiS4 2013 is stil l under construction but can be found at this URL: (http://rhetoricinsociet y.hum.ku.dk/) rhetoricinsociety.hum.ku.dk\n\nWhy not bookmark the website t oday\, so that you can easily return and stay abreast as it develops and pr ovides information on how to submit proposals\, how to register for the con ference\, where to stay\, etc.?\n\nAcademic Committee\n\nHilde van Belle\, Lessius University\, Antwerp\, Belgium\nRobert Ivie\, Indiana University\, Bloomington\, USA/Honorary Professor\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark\n Jens Kjeldsen\, University of Bergen\, Norway/Sö\;dertö\;rn Univers ity\, Sweden (RSE)\nMarie Lund Klujeff\, Aarhus University\, Denmark (RSE)\ nKendall Phillips\, Syracuse University\, USA (RSA)\n\nOrganizing committee \n\nMette Bengtsson\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark\nMark Herron\, Uni versity of Copenhagen\, Denmark\nChristian Kock\, University of Copenhagen\ , Denmark\nRasmus Rø\;nlev\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark\nLisa S. Villadsen\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark SUMMARY:RHETORIC IN SOCIETY 4 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR