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CFW: Spatial Praxes: Theories of Space, Place, and Pedagogy (Summer 2012)

Spatial Praxes: Theories of Space, Place, and Pedagogy, a 2012 summer special issue of Kairos
Guest Editors: Dr. Amy Kimme Hea, Ashley J. Holmes, and Jennifer Haley-Brown

Summer Seminar in Rhetoric & Composition: June 7-11, 2010. Michigan State University

This seminar focuses on helping first-year writing teachers and administrators improve writing instruction. Prominent figures in the field run all-day workshops that facilitate the integration of innovative pedagogies and practices. This year's keynote address will be given by Katie Malcom and Nancy DeJoy the evening of June 6. Full-day workshops will be facilitated by Bump Halbritter, Karl Stolley & Amy Ferdinandt Stolley, Patricia Sullivan, Lisa Green, Nancy DeJoy & Steven T. Lessner, June 7-11, respectively. Participants may attend one or more days of the workshop.

Call for Nominations: 2010 Kairos Awards (February 1, 2010)

Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy seeks nominations for its annual awards for 2010.

Call for Proposals: 23rd Annual Research Network Forum at CCCC

Event: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Deadline: Saturday, October 31st, 2009

The Research Network Forum was founded in 1987 as a pre-convention workshop at CCCC. The RNF is an opportunity for published researchers, new researchers, and graduate students to discuss their current research projects and receive responses from new and senior researchers. The forum is free to CCCC convention participants. You need not be a work-in-progress presenter to attend.

Kairos Issue 14.1 Released

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 14.1 for Fall 2000. Our theme and our content for this issue can best be expressed by quoting editor Cheryl Ball's summary from Logging On:

#InThisIssue

Inventio: Delagrange reflects on Wunderkammer webtext process in “When Revision is Redesign: Key Qs for Digital Schol.” http://bit.ly/8HLki

Praxis: Carter & Dunbar-Odom present “Converging Literacies Center,” a model for writing programs w/iPhone interface! http://bit.ly/RbBlx

Call for Webtexts: Kairos Special Issue (Summer 2011; Proposals Due October 1, 2009)

Guest Editors: Shannon Carter, Texas A&M-Commerce and Bump Halbritter, Michigan State University

The Summer 2011 special issue of Kairos entitled (Re)mediating the Conversation: Undergraduate Scholars in Writing and Rhetoric will bring together digital scholarship produced by undergraduates composing with new media. This special issue invites undergraduates and their instructors to join the scholarly conversation in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies through their own digital contributions.

Kairos Call for Awards (February 1, 2009)

Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy requests nominations for its three annual awards, which will be presented at the 2009 Computers and Writing Conference at University of California-Davis. The deadline for nominations for all awards is February 1, 2009.

The Kairos awards page has complete information about all awards and a list of past winners.

Reminder: Karos Special Issue CFP: dot mil (November 1, 2008)

Just a reminder that proposals for the Kairos special issue on rhetoric and the military are due November 1, 2008.

CFP: 4Cs Computer Connection (November 1, 2008)

The Computer Connection, a project of the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition (7Cs), seeks submissions for short presentations and workshops to be delivered at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco, CA, March 11-14, 2009. The CC presentations will be offered during sessions A-D on Thursday, March 12, and sessions F-H on the morning of Friday, March 13.

Kairos Is Hiring!

Kairos is hiring! Would you like to join our journal? All positions are unpaid volunteer positions.

We have immediate openings for two qualified candidates for the position of Praxis Assistant Editor.

We have an immediate opening for a qualified candidate for the position of Reviews Assistant Editor.