CFP: Academic Literacies Symposium

The Interdisciplinary Approaches to Academic Literacies Symposium aims to expand current understandings of academic literacies of diverse student populations. The conference will be February 27 and 28, 2010, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. You are invited to submit proposals by October 15, 2009. Multiple submissions are allowed. Proposals can include, but are not limited to the following research areas:


• Academic Literacy
• Literacy Socialization
• Second Language Writing and Reading
• Academic, and Scientific Discourses
• Discourse Analysis and/or Intercultural Rhetoric

• Technology and Academic Literacy
• Multimodal literacy practices
• Plagiarism and/or Intellectual Property
• Assessment


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
SURESH CANAGARAJAH: Suresh Canagarajah is a Krigby Professor of English and the director of the Migration Studies Project at Penn State University. His book Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching won the Modern Language Association’s Mina Shaughnessy Award for the best research publication on the teaching of language and literacy. His subsequent publication Geopolitics of Academic Writing won the Gary Olson Award for the best book in social and rhetorical theory.

ALAN HIRVELA: Alan Hirvela is an Associate Professor in the Foreign and Second Language Education department at the Ohio State University. Alan has recently co-edited Oral-Literate Connection: Perspectives on L2 Speaking, Writing, and Other Media Interactions with Diane Belcher and is now serving as a co-editor of TESOL Quarterly.

PROPOSAL FORMAT:
Proposals should be no more than three single spaced pages and should include the following: The research question(s), theoretical framework, methodology, findings and/or issues for further discussion, and the projected contributions to scholarship on Academic Literacies. Please fill out the Proposal Format form, located at http://www.english.iup.edu/academicliteracies/

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS:
• Papers
• Posters
• Roundtable Conversation
• Graduate Research DEADLINES:
All proposals must be submitted by October 15, 2009.
Notifications will be sent by November 15, 2009.
Completed manuscripts are due February 15, 2010.
Please send your proposals to Dr. Lisya Seloni at
lisyaseloni@gmail.com