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litsci-l-digest        Friday, January 20 2006        Volume 01 : Number
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     SLSA 2006 Web site information and call for papers
     CALL FOR PAPERS: NARRATIVE KNOWLEDGE/NARRATIVE ACTION

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:55:17 -0600
From: nyc slsa2006 
Subject: SLSA 2006 Web site information and call for papers

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Call for Papers
20th Annual Conference
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
EVOLUTION: BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, AND COSMIC
New York, NY, November 9-12, 2006
Keynote: Lynn Margulis
http://www.dactyl.org/SLSA.htm 

Please note special instructions below for submission of abstracts to
the
LITSCI list. All other correspondence should be directed to
nyc.slsa2006@gmail.com 

The meeting is shaping up very nicely. It will be a bit of a departure
from
previous meetings. Thanks for passing along word of the conference to
interested parties.

The meeting will be held in conjunction with the first annual New York
Science and Art Festival, with city-wide events throughout the entire
week.
We hope to see you in SoHo, New York City.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are particularly interested in proposals related to the conference
themes: evolutionary ideas in and among the natural and social sciences,
technology, media, literature, art, the humanities, cultural studies,
and
critical theory. Proposals on other topics in literature, science, and
art
are also welcome. We encourage innovative proposals for papers, panels,
round-table discussions, and any non-traditional formats. Panels are
usuall=
y
composed of 3-4 speakers. All sessions are 90 minutes long and should
provide up to 30 minutes discussion. Proposals involving speakers and/or
respondents that transcend disciplinary boundaries are particularly
welcome=
.
Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2006.

NEW OPEN-FORUM SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
We are trying something different with the submission process this year.
Participants are urged to submit their paper/panel abstracts to the SLSA
listserve, and all listserve subscribers are invited to respond to the
abstracts with comments and questions. Individual submitters are
encouraged
to use the listserve to self-organize into coherent panels. If you do
form
connections and would like to be placed together in a panel, please let
the
program chair know by the submission deadline. We hope that this new
procedure will stimulate dialogue among participants before the
conference
begins so that the overall experience of SLSA 2006 will be richer and
more
useful for everyone involved.

For individual papers as well as for panel and other proposals, please
submit abstracts of no more than 200 words per speaker, in plain text
(no
attachments) pasted into an e-mail message to LITSCI-L@duke.edu with
"SUB
06" followed by the title of the panel or talk in the subject line. In
addition, please offer up to 5 keywords to classify the paper or
session:
e.g. "science fiction, technology, biology, theory, visual art,
ecocriticism, Whitehead, Renaissance, media, cinema, Gaia, rhetoric,
poetics, semiotics," and  etc.. For each speaker, provide an e-mail
address
and each speaker's institutional affiliation, academic department, or
professional status (e.g. Independent Scholar) or profession (e.g.
Technologist, Novelist) whichever is applicable. The appearance of your
submission on the listserve will be the acknowledgement of its receipt
by
the program committee.

PLEASE NOTE: You must be subscribed to the SLSA listserve before you
submit
your abstract. To subscribe to the list, send the following command in
the
body of an e-mail message to majordomo@duke.edu: 

subscribe LITSCI-L

To subscribe to the digest format, send the following command in the
body o=
f
an e-mail message to majordomo@duke.edu: 

subscribe LITSCI-L-DIGEST

For technical assistance, or if you do not wish to submit your abstract
to
the open forum, please write to nyc.slsa2006@gmail.com 

Professor Bruce Clarke
1st VP, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
Program Chair, SLSA 2006
bruce.clarke@ttu.edu 

Victoria N. Alexander
Director, Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities
http://www.dactyl.org 
Site Chair, SLSA 2006
alexander@dactyl.org 


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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:13:32 -0600
From: SLSA 2005 
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: NARRATIVE KNOWLEDGE/NARRATIVE ACTION

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CALL FOR PAPERS

NARRATIVE KNOWLEDGE/NARRATIVE ACTION

2006 Thomas R. Watson Conference.  October 5-7, 2006

Co-sponsored by the University of Louisville English Department and
its
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition.

The sixth biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and
Composition will address the multiple ways narrative informs theory,
research, and teaching in rhetoric and composition.

Plenary Panels:

Narrative Knowledge:  Arthur Danto. Michael Ruse.  Ruth Behar.

Narrative and Literacy:  Jonathon Rose.  Thomas Newkirk.  Deborah
Brandt.

Narrative and Identity:  Kathleen Stewart.  Nedra Reynolds.  Glynda
Hull.

Narrative and Multmodality:  Gunther Kress.  James Gee.  Cynthia
Selfe.

Narrative Action:  Victor Villanueva.  Beverly Moss.  Nancy Sommers.
Sondra Perl.

Comix 101:  Art Spiegelman.  Author of Maus, Maus II, and In the
Shadow
of No Towers.


Proposals:

We invite proposals for 20-minute individual presentations or
75-minute
panels that consider some aspect of the conference theme, including

- --Narrative as a way of knowing and making meaning.  Narrative as
social
action.
- --Narrative and key disciplinary concepts, e.g.,  identity, agency,
literacy, culture, process, reflection, genre.
- --The role of narrative in writing courses.
- --The ways narrative shapes practice, theory, and rhetorics of
research.
- --The historical narratives we construct about disciplinary
development.
- --The influence of interdisciplinary narrative theory and research on
our teaching and research practices.
- --New narrative genres and the relation of narrative to multi-modal
literacies

For information concerning proposals, please visit the conference
website:  www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/watson/ 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 1, 2006

Inquires:  502-852-6801 or Watson@louisville.edu 

Debra Journet, Director, 2006 Watson Conference.
Cynthia Britt and Alanna Frost, Assistant Directors, 2006 Watson
Conference


Cynthia Britt
Co-Director 2006 Watson Conference
Humanities Bldg. 315
University of Louisville
cynthia.britt@louisville.edu 

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