Attached is the English version [la version française suivra bientôt] of the Call for Papers for the 2009 CASDW (formerly CATTW/ACPRTS) conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada next May 24-26. On behalf of the organizing committee and the conference program co-chair, Heather Graves, I would like to invite you to participate. Current plans for the 2009 Inkshed conference have it on the days immediately preceding the CASDW conference in or near Ottawa, so we hope that you will consider participating in both.
The theme of the 2009 CASDW conference is "The Territoire/Places of Writing Studies in Higher Education: Canadian and International Perspectives." As part of this theme we invite papers that identify, interrogate, and illuminate the various locations—physical, administrative, and intellectual—that form our identities as instructors, tutors, and researchers in writing studies.
Please send proposals and inquiries about the conference to Roger or Heather Graves at [log in to unmask][1]
We look forward to reading them and seeing you in Ottawa next year!
Roger Graves
Professor, English and Film Studies
Director of Writing Across the Curriculum
University of Alberta
This theme is particularly apt because of the change in name of our organization. The old name— Canadian
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (CATTW)/L’Association canadienne de professeurs de rédaction technique et scientifique (ACPRTS)—signified a territory or place for our activities limited to one location in the academy—technical writing—that ultimately proved insufficient as the group’s intellectual territory expanded. The new name claims a broader section of the academic map: genre studies, rhetorical theory, composition studies, engineering communication, writing centre theory and practice, and, of course, professional and technical writing research and practice.
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