Wyoming Conference

[JNelson@uwyo.edu (Jane V. Nelson)]

It's time to think about submitting a proposal to the Wyoming Conference. 
 Here's the information (I'm posting to WCENTER, WPA-L,
and WAC-L):

THE 25TH 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 1:30 pm on June 17 and 
ends the evening of June 20.  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 31, 1997 to:

Kathy Evertz, Conference Director
English Department
Box 3353 University Station
Laramie, WY  82071-3353
(307) 766-6311 or 766-6486
You may e-mail proposals to:  KEVERTZ@UWYO.EDU
(Acceptances will be mailed on April 15)

INVITED SPEAKERS/WORKSHOP LEADERS

JOSEPH HARRIS, Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at 
the University of Pittsburgh.  He is author of A Teaching Subject: 
 Composition Since 1966 (Prentice Hall, 1997) and Media Journal:  Reading 
and Writing about Popular Culture (Allyn & Bacon, 1995).  Harris also edits 
CCC:  College Composition and Communication.

SARA R. HOROWITZ, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Jewish 
Studies Program at the University of Delaware.  She is author of Voicing the 
Void:  Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (SUNY Press, 1997), and 
fiction editor of Jewish American Women:  A Bio-Critical Sourcebook 
(Greenwood Press, 1994).  She also serves as coeditor of Kerem, a journal of 
creative explorations in Judaism.

IRA SHOR, Professor of English in the Ph.D. Program, CUNY Graduate School. 
 His most recent book is When Students Have Power:  Negotiating Authority in 
a Critical Pedagogy (U. Chicago Press, 1996).  He is also the author of 
Empowering Education (U. Chicago Press, 1992).  He is currently developing a 
new doctoral program in Composition/Rhetoric at CUNY.

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: 1997 Wyoming 
Conference on English.

MORNING OF WORKSHOPS  Guest speakers will lead three-hour workshops Friday, 
June 20, 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 $20. (See 
registration form for list of workshops.)

PUBLISHERS' DISPLAY TABLES  In Conference Headquarters, publishers will 
display current 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.  There will be a $25 processing fee on all 
refunds.

ACCOMMODATIONS are available in the UW residence halls at $14 per night for 
double rooms or $17 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. 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.