Dear colleagues, the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/ Association canadienne de rédactologie (CASDW/ACR; formerly Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing/L'Association canadienne de professeurs de rédaction technique et scientifique) invites you to submit proposals for its international conference at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, from May 24-May 26, 2009. With the conference theme "The Territoire/Places of Writing Studies in Higher Education: Canadian and International Perspectives," we invite proposals that help us identify, interrogate, and illuminate the various locations-physical, administrative, and intellectual-that shape our identities and practices as researchers and teachers of writing. The theme also echoes the recent name change of our association to reflect the growth of our field and the rich diversity of the work undertaken in Writing Studies, including genre studies; rhetorical theory; composition studies; engineering communication; business communication; writing in digital environments; writing centre theory and practice; writing in the disciplines; professional, technical, and scientific communication, and more. Please see the complete call for proposals in English and French (our two conference languages) on our web site at http://casdw-acr.mcgill.ca/en/cfps.htm (English) or http://casdw-acr.mcgill.ca/fr/cfps.htm (French). Please also distribute our call widely to other interested colleagues who may not be on this listserv. We look forward to receiving your proposals and hope to see you in Ottawa in 2009! ****************************************************** Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Ph.D. Associate Director, Centre for the Study and Teaching of Writing Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Writing Studies Department of Integrated Studies in Education McGill University 3700, rue McTavish Montréal, QC H3A 1Y2, Canada T: 514.398.1308 F: 514.398.4529 E: doreen.starke-meyerring @ mcgill.ca W: http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/group1/dstark1/web/starke-meyerring/ President, Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/ Association candienne de rédactologie http://casdw-acr.mcgill.ca ******************************************************