Apologies for cross-posting -------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP Genre Conference, Brazil, August 2008 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:39:41 -0700 From: Chuck Bazerman <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] please distribute widely *The Fifth International Symposium on Genre Studies* will meet on August 11-14, 2009 in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil--a lovely city of 400, 000 in the mountains inland and north of Porto Allegre, in southern Brazil, in a grape growing region (for more info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caxias_do_Sul). Symposium themes include Text genres: epistemology and methodology Text genres and language teaching Text genre and teacher training Text genres and professional areas Text genre and literacy Text genre and media Proposals are now being accepted for individual papers, coordinated paper presentations, and posters. Deadline for abstracts: October 15, 2008. Further details at the conference website: English http://www.ucs.br/ucs/extensao/agenda/eventos/vsiget/ingles/apresentacao Spanish http://www.ucs.br/ucs/extensao/agenda/eventos/vsiget/espanhol/apresentacao French http://www.ucs.br/ucs/extensao/agenda/eventos/vsiget/frances/apresentacao Portuguese http://www.ucs.br/ucs/extensao/agenda/eventos/vsiget/portugues/apresentacao Invited Speakers Adair Bonini - UNISUL - BRAZIL Amy Devitt - KANSAS UNIVERSITY - USA Ana Maria Mattos Guimarães - UNISINOS - BRAZIL Anna Rachel Machado - PUC-SP - BRAZIL Angela Kleiman - UNICAMP - BRAZIL Brian Street - OPEN UNIVERSITY - UK Carolyn Miller - UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - USA David Russel - IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY - EUA Gisele de Carvalho - UERJ - BRAZIL Glaís Sales Cordeiro - UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE - SWITZERLAND Jean-Paul Bronckart - UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE - SWITZERLAND Joaquim Dolz - UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE - SWITZERLAND Maria Izabel Santos Magalhães - UNB - BRAZIL Paula Carlino - UNIVERSIDADE DE BUENOS AIRES - ARGENTINA Solange T. R. de Castro - UNITAU - BRAZIL Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristóvão - UEL - BRAZIL Vijay Bhatia - CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG - CHINA Viviane M. Heberle - UFSC - BRAZIL -- Professor Charles Bazerman Department of Education Gevirtz Graduate School of Education University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 phone: 805-893-7543 [log in to unmask] http://www.education.ucsb.edu/bazerman 2008 Santa Barbara Writing Research Conference http://education.ucsb.edu/wrconf08/ Program Chair, College Composition and Communication 2008 -- Natasha Artemeva, Ph. D. Associate Professor School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 Tel.+1 (613) 520-2600 ext.7452 Fax +1 (613) 520-6641 E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.carleton.ca/slals/faculty/artemeva.htm -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-