2007 CCCC Convention: Call for Proposals

25 Years of Reading and Misreading Orality and Literacy

This session is intended to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of Ong's Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word by exploring the ways the text has been read and misread by those working in the fields of composition studies, rhetoric, literacy studies, orality-literacy studies, and communication studies. Suggested topics include but not limited to considerations of its reception and its influence, reflections on reading and rereading the text over time, its connection to Ong's other works and the related work of others, as well as extensions, critiques, contextualization of its ideas.

Please send inquiries and 1-page abstracts by April 15, 2006 to John Paul Walter ( walterj at slu dot edu).

As some of you undoutibly know because of my earlier MLA 2006 CFP, I'm trying to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy (1982-2007) by organizing sessions at number of number of conferences, beginning with MLA 2006. Since I got many more proposals for MLA than I'd hoped to receive, I'm pushing forward with my plans.

Below is a CFP for CCCC 2007. If you or someone you know may be interested in participating, I'm more than happy to discuss suggested topics and exchange ideas as the proposals are being drafted. Likewise, I'll be at CCCC this week and would be happy to talk to anyone there.

I've set the submission deadline early enough (April 15) so that if I can't include someone's paper, they'll have more than enough time to work up and submit another proposal to the conference if they wish.