Conference on Cultural Rhetorics May 16-18, 2007 Michigan State University Call for Papers, Performances, and Exhibits What are cultural rhetorics? What is the relationship between the study of rhetoric and the study of culture? Who writes, performs, displays, digitizes, crafts, and creates these rhetorics? What do these rhetorics look like? How do specific cultural rhetorics differ from, overlap with, and/or engage in dialogue with work Cultural Studies, Digital Studies, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, American Indian Studies, Arab and Middle Eastern American Studies, Chicano/a, Latina/o Studies, Indigenous Studies, Disability Studies, Queer/LGBT Studies, Performance Studies, and Working-Class Studies? What relationship does Cultural Rhetoric Studies have to Rhetoric Studies, Theory, and Pedagogy? to Composition Studies? to American Studies? to Literary Studies? to Digital, Visual, and Material Rhetorics? to Scientific, technical, and professional communication studies? Are there pedagogies of cultural rhetorics? Methodologies? Theories? Performances? Materialities? We welcome papers, performances, and exhibits that articulate, engage with, provoke, analyze, theorize, and practice cultural rhetorics. We are particularly interested in scholars/artists/performers/writers/knowledge workers that engage rhetorics that are too often marginalized, tokenized, silenced, and ignored. We welcome work that happens at the intersection of various disciplines and fields in the humanities and invite scholars, artists, and writers to join us at these intellectual and creative crossroads. Please join us in creating a space of radical interdisciplinarity in which to explore rhetoric as a distinctive constellation of methods, methodologies, and pedagogies for the study of culture and to think through how the frame of "culture" expands our understanding of rhetoric and the responsibility for rhetoric to be ethical in its engagement with culture. While we are very interested in proposals for individual papers and panel presentations that address these questions and/or further scholarship in these areas, we especially encourage art, craft, multimedia, or imaginative presentations/demonstrations/installations that provoke other methods of intellectual engagement as well. Proposals of 300-500 words may be submitted via the conference website at http://rhetoric.msu.edu/cultrhet/ The deadline for submissions is January 1, 2007. Questions about the conference should be directed to Malea Powell at powell37@msu.edu or to Mike McLeod at mcleodm3@msu.edu