CFP: Writing Research Across Borders III

Call for proposals

International Conference on Writing Research

Writing Research Across Borders III

Feb 2014 - Paris (France)

http://conference2014.fr

Proposal Deadline: April 1, 2013

Following on the writing research conferences in 2008 at the University of California Santa Barbara, and in 2011 at George Mason University in Washington DC, the next conference on writing research across borders will be held in Paris, France, in February, 2014, under the auspices of the newly formed International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research (ISAWR).

The University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre la Défense will host this major scientific event. The conference, which will be held for the first time in Europe, will offer the opportunity for encounters among different writing research traditions. This Conference brings together the many writing researchers from around the world, drawing on all disciplines, and focused on all aspects of writing at all levels of development and in all segments of society. This conference will be not only an event allowing for dissemination of knowledge established by writing research, but also a space to promote encounters among different approaches to writing, and among different writing research communities. New projects and new collaborations will flourish.

Several key questions will be at the heart of the debates and discussions: what does it mean to write in the 21st century? In these times of multimedia technologies and globalization, in an era where the frontiers are blurring between the intimate and the social, between the private and the professional, what does Writing now mean? How might we respond to major societal challenges and face inequalities in access to writing? Are our currently-available research methodologies and tools up to the task of helping us to better understand what writing is, its functionalities, how it is acquired, its role in personal development, its history?

We invite you to contribute to this communal reflection by proposing a presentation to the conference. Four types of

presentation are planned:

• Individual 30-minutes presentations followed by ten minutes of Q+A.

• Symposia featuring several scholars working on related questions (duration: 2 hours). These symposia can take two shapes: team symposia and symposia bringing together several scholars from different teams or countries. This second type of symposium is strongly encouraged because it will make best use of the conference by making it the site of intellectual exchange and collective work.

• Roundtables focused on debates and commonalities (duration: 2 hours). The author of the proposal provides the theme and the topics that will be discussed during the roundtable.

• Poster presentations of work in progress. 

Presentations can be grounded in quite diverse fields: linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, didactics, sociology, rhetoric, historical studies, ethnography, anthropology, or any other disciplinary tradition. Presentations can be in French or English. Presentation abstracts will be published in both languages.

Abstract submission

Abstracts can be in English or French.

Proposal for individual and poster presentations should be from 250 to 500 words in length and panel and roundtable proposals, 500 to 1000 words.

Abstracts should indicate the area of research and give clear indication of the data or the corpus under investigation, the method used and a few results. Proposals should and identify clearly the relevant literatures to be considered, and provide overviews of and reflections on research traditions will be appreciated.

Each proposal will be examined anonymously by the scientific committee. Names of author(s) should not be given in the abstract.

Abstracts should be sent as electronic files to the following address: http://conference2014.fr

Calendar

Proposal submission deadline April 1, 2013

Return of paper acceptance June 2013

Conference February 2014 (the precise dates will be indicated soon)