slow start > no start

Projects on tap right now: CCS Conference paper on the impaired citizenship of women. Proposal for paper for the Thomas Watson Conference. Reworking chapter on Arab Spring for publication.

What I Did Today

Re-read Chapter 5 of Azoulay and took notes for the Citizenship paper. Because chapter 5 is predominantly about sexual assault, and not about the citizenship status of women (I mean, they intersect for her, but the focus is on assault) I really need to go back over chapter 1 as well, and see if the material there is more useful.


Also located the CFP for Thomas Watson:

"Call for Papers: “Mobility Work in Composition: Translation, Migration, Transformation.” 

For the Eleventh Biennial Thomas Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, to be held at the University of Louisville 20-22 October 2016, we invite proposals for presentations exploring the relevance of diverse notions of mobilities for the work of rhetoric and composition (as a discipline, form of labor, and profession): how mobility is and might be worked—theorized, activated, researched, experienced, imagined—in our teaching, scholarship, and program administration, with what effects, for whom and on whom.

Participants might pursue such questions as:

• How might we usefully distinguish among the kinds of mobility experienced and exercised by differently positioned actors in our field?
• In what ways might mobility get taken up in practices and rhetorics of activism in engagements across divides of institution, discipline, program, location, and language?
• How might theories of mobility in knowledge, meaning, and identity contribute to our approaches to translation, transfer, and genre and such matters as form, medium, text, and stance?
• How might we better conceive of and engage the movement of knowledge across boundaries of disciplines, programs, institutions, and routes of production, circulation, reception, execution?
• How might the problematics of knowledge mobilization contribute to or help us better grasp composition’s perduring history of poor working conditions and low disciplinary status?
• How does mobility challenge dominant conceptions of and commitments to identities of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, race, class, language, ability, nationality, profession, and place?  In what ways might we conceive of and pursue, or resist and challenge, mobilizations of identity in and through our composing, teaching, administration, and research practices?
• How do or might digital and other technologies shape and afford forms of mobility in composition, of what kind, for whom, and to what effect?

The deadline for submitting proposals is March 1, 2016, with responses to be sent by May 1, 2016.  More information on the conference is available at watsonconference.com.  Please direct questions to Bruce Horner atwatson@louisville.edu."

 
McG, CSD, and DR and I are supposed to be putting together a panel for this conference. TBH, I don't really see immediately how my research intersects with this theme. McG suggested that we think about how rhetoric motivates action, and take that as our "mobility" buy-in. This seems to have some merit, but it's such a broad approach that I can't say more than that right now.

Next Steps

1. Re-read Chapter 1 of Azoulay. 
2. Find The Regime of the Brother and see if it's useful for the Citizenship project.
3. Keep thinking about how to approach the Thomas Watson panel. 
4. (STILL) Print the Arab Spring chapter and do a markup of what's worth keeping and what has to be fixed.