Call for Proposals: http://culturalrhetorics.org/cfp.php 2014 Cultural Rhetorics Conference "Entering the Conversation" Michigan State University <http://www.msu.edu/>, East Lansing, Michigan, USA October 30 - November 1, 2014 What is this conference for?To continue ongoing conversations in the emergent field Cultural Rhetorics, connect conversations among those doing work in this field, and build a consortium of cultural rhetorics practitioners.Who is this conference for?Anyone who wants to join the conversation about cultural rhetorics! Faculty, grad students, teachers, scholars, writers, artists, activists ...How can I participate?Submit a proposal.<http://culturalrhetorics.org/coming-soon.php?Title=Online+Submission> We're looking for papers, panels, roundtables, performances, media installations, posters, readings, workshops & more that define, expand, illustrate, and/or question what it means to join the cultural rhetorics conversation.Apply to be a particpant<http://culturalrhetorics.org/coming-soon.php?Title=Apply+to+the+Roundtable> in our opening roundtable -- "What does it mean to do cultural rhetorics & what does it look like?"Proposals must be submitted by April 15th, 2014.Cultural Rhetorics scholars study meaning-making practices and, sometimes, the things produced through those practices like baskets, books, dances, poems, web-sites, buildings, landscapes.We use the term "cultural rhetorics" to emphasize an orientation to a set of constellating methodological and theoretical frames we engage in our scholarly and teaching practices. Those frames draw from and across Rhetoric & Composition Studies, various Ethnic Studies fields, Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, and others.While cultural rhetorics covers a wide breadth of fields and disciplines, we haven't had a central home or space to get together and share our work. The 2014 Cultural Rhetorics Conference: Entering the Conversation, hosted by the Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University, is that space. -- PhD Student Department of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures Writing Center Satellite Coordinator Michigan State University 300 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 philbratta@gmail.com http://www.philbratta.com/