Call for Papers Extended: Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association 33rd Annual Conference

Rhetoric and Technical Communication Area

Proposals due: December 15, 2011

Conference Website: http://www.swtxpca.org/  (updated regularly)

Conference Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Conference Date: February 8-11, 2012

Hotel Information: Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center, 330 Tijeras Ave. NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 USA

Phone: 1-505-842-1234

Join us for the 33rd Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference, February 8-11, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The annual SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference is one of the nation’s largest gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars.

The Rhetoric and Technical Communication area of the SW/TX PCA/ACA welcomes paper, panel, and other proposals on any aspect of the fields of TC and/or R. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Rhetoric & TC
• TC/R Theory
• TC/R Methodology
• Argumentation
• Political Rhetorics
• Multimedia & Multimodal Composition
• Visual Rhetoric/Visual Communication
• Sonic Rhetorics
• Spatial and Temporal Rhetorics
• Social Networking
• Technical Writing
• Professional Writing
• TC Pedagogy
• New Media/New Communication Technologies
• CMC/CMS & TC
• Intercultural TC
• Gender, Race & TC
• Rhetorical agency, identity, ethos
• Ethics in TC and R
• Global TC/R
• Mobile TC/R
• New media writing practices
• Accessibility/Disability & TC/R
• Generation Studies in TC/R
• The Future of TC/R

This list is suggestive and not exhaustive. Other topics are certainly welcome within the broad topic of pop culture studies and TC/R.

Please submit your abstract to the database at the following web address: http://conference2012.swtxpca.org by December 15, 2011.

If you have any questions, please contact: