CFP: Conference on Genre Studies

Save the Dates! June 26-29, 2012

The 2012 International Conference on Genre Studies:
Rethinking Genre--Twenty Years Later
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The conference aims to continue a long-running discussion that originated with the first international conference on genre studies, “Rethinking Genre,” organized by Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway and held at Carleton University in 1992.
The goal of the conference is to

• create a dialogue among three prevalent traditions of genre studies: (a) English for Specific Purposes (ESP), (b) North American New Rhetoric Studies, and (c) Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics (the Sydney School);
• present recent developments in each of these three traditions, with respect to writing in academic, workplace, and community settings;
• explore convergences among the three traditions; and
• provide a communicative space for discussion of other possible approaches to genre studies. 
  

The keynote speakers at the conference will be Jim Martin, Chuck Bazerman, David Russell, Cathy Schryer, Ken Hyland, and Vijay Bhatia.

Watch for our call for proposals in the spring of 2011.

Please send any questions you might have about the conference to this e-mail address:  Genre2012@carleton.ca

The organizing group:

Natasha Artemeva                 
Jaffer Sheyholislami              
Graham Smart