wyoming conference

[AmyS@UWYO.EDU (Amy Slack)]

Hey, all, it's time to consider submitting proposals to the Wyoming 
Conference on English. I am posting the flyer to several lists.  This flyer 
will also be available at the C's.  The deadline in the flyer is listed as 
March 15, but it has been extended.

Jane Nelson (jnelson@uwyo.edu)

Here's the flyer:

The 24th Wyoming Conference on English invites professors, lecturers, 
instructors, graduate students, and administrators in colleges, universities 
and schools to participate in a program of workshops, panels, and social 
gatherings. The purpose of the conference is to address critical issues in 
English and related fields. The conference begins at 3:30 pm on June 18 and 
ends the evening of June 21.  We encourage multicultural and minority 
participation.

CALL FOR PAPERS  We invite proposals for individual papers, sessions, 
workshops, and panels in composition, literature, rhetoric, computers, 
cultural studies, creative writing, linguistics, ESL, women's studies, and 
administration.  Each 90-minute session typically has three papers or one 
workshop.  Send abstract by March 15, 1996 to:
Kathy Evertz, Conference Director
English Department
Box 3353 University Station
Laramie, WY  82071-3353
(307) 766-6311 or 766-6486
You may email proposals to:  KEVERTZ@UWYO.EDU
(Acceptances will be mailed on April 10)

INVITED SPEAKERS/WORKSHOP LEADERS

MICHAEL BERENBAUM, Director of the United States Holocaust Research 
Institute of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Hymen Goldman 
adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. 
 His books include A Mosaic of Victims:  Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by 
the Nazis (NY Univ Press) and Witness to the Holocaust (Harper/Collins).

MICHAEL BERUBE, Associate Professor of English (with an appointment in the 
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory) at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign.  His most recent books are Public Access:  Literary Theory 
and American Cultural Politics (Verso, 1994) and Higher Education Under 
Fire:  Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (Routledge, 
1995), co-edited with Cary Nelson.

LINDA BRODKEY, Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and the 
Director of the Warren College Writing Program at the University of 
California, San Diego.  She is the author of Academic Writing as Social 
Practice (Temple U Press, 1987) and Writing Permitted in Designated Areas 
Only (forthcoming from U of Minnesota Press).
SPECIAL FEATURES

the University of California, San Diego.  She is the author of Academic 
Writing as Social Practice (Temple U Press, 1987) and Writing Permitted in 
Designated Areas Only (forthcoming from U of Minnesota Press).
SPECIAL FEATURES

WWW SITE  You can access conference information and updates via the 
Internet.  Visit us at http://www.uwyo.edu/a&s/engl.  Click on: 1996 Wyoming 
Conference on English.

DAILY MORNING COFFEE RECEPTIONS  We'll start the mornings with coffee and 
tea at Conference Headquarters.

MORNING OF WORKSHOPS  Guest speakers will lead three-hour workshops Friday, 
June 21, from 8:30 am to 11:30 am.  The workshops will be limited to 20 
participants on a first-come, first-served basis.  The cost is $15.  (See 
registration form for list of workshops.)

PUBLISHERS' DISPLAY TABLES  In Conference Headquarters, publishers will 
display recent literature in composition, rhetoric, and related fields.

ADVANCE REGISTRATION is $125 for faculty and $100 for graduate students. 
 On-site conference registration is $20 extra.  Registration fee includes 
picnic, cocktail party, and BBQ.

ACCOMMODATIONS are in the UW residence halls.  A housing and meal form will 
be sent with your confirmation.  Housing is available at $10 per night for 
double rooms or $15 per night for singles.  A meal ticket will be available 
for purchase, or conferees may take advantage of the UW Union and our many 
local restaurants.  More information will be sent with your housing and meal 
registration form.  Please direct any questions to Shelley Straley, 
Conference Coordinator, at (307)766-6486 or straley@uwyo.edu.

TRANSPORTATION by airline, bus, train, and Colorado's Airport Express is 
available into Laramie.  Call Travel Time (800-545-8785), the exclusive 
travel agent for the conference, for airfares with a 5% discount off the 
lowest economy fare. The conference provides transportation to and from 
Laramie's airport, bus, and train stations.




Persons seeking admission, employment or access to programs of the 
University of Wyoming shall be considered without regard to race, color, 
national origin, sex, age, religion, political belief, handicap, or veteran 
status.