The 6th International Conference on Writing Analytics is entitled ‘Actionable Data for Teaching and Learning Writing’ and will be held 23-25 May 2018 in Malmö. Details are on the conference website.
ASLA 2018 Call for Papers
The tenth biennial conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS) is entitled “Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America” and will be held in Stockholm, September 28–30, 2018. Confirmed keynote speakers are David R. Roediger (University of Kansas), Sylvia Mayer (University of Bayreuth), and Frida Stranne (Halmstad University).
An extended deadline for proposals has been announced. The new deadline is March 1, 2018. Details of the conference can be found on the SAAS website.
New venue for the 2019 National Forum for English Studies
SWESSE is happy to announce that a new venue for the 2019 National Forum for English Studies has been agreed. Malmö University will host the event in spring 2019. Many thanks to Björn, Anna and their colleagues at Malmö for agreeing to host the meeting.
Don’t forget that you can find copies of the President’s newsletter here on the website.
Rhetorical Education and the Democratic Mission of the School: Preparing Students for Academic and Civic Life
‘Rhetorical Education and the Democratic Mission of the School: Preparing Students for Academic and Civic Life‘ is a conference at Örebro University, October 24-26, 2017.
The 2011 Curriculum for Upper-Secondary School has put rhetoric back on the syllabus for both the English and Swedish subjects. For the first time in two centuries, rhetoric has a significant role to play in developing the communicative abilities of secondary school students in Sweden. Thus, there is a need to understand and develop its educational potential.
Rhetoric may be defined as the investigation, critical understanding, and production of persuasive language. Its educational goal is to enhance agency by enabling students to make purposeful decisions about their communicative practices. Traditionally the reserve of ruling-class men, rhetoric today can be made available to all citizens, regardless of race, gender, or religion. This conference will bring together researchers in education and rhetoric to explore how rhetorical education and pedagogy—inspired by the rhetorical tradition and modified and updated for the twenty-first century—can enhance language arts teaching in secondary education today. How can rhetoric revitalize the language arts? How can it enrich students’ literacy experiences across the disciplines? How can it help them develop communicative agency and carry it into the public sphere—at work, at university, and in civic life? In addition to addressing these questions, researchers will discuss applications with teachers and teacher educators and identify further areas of research that hold promise for enhancing the democratic impact of secondary school.
This project has been made possible by a research initiation grant from Riksbanken Jubileumsfond.
National Forum 2017 extended deadline
The deadline for registering to attend the National Forum for English Studies in Jönköpping has been extended, which means there’s still time to register!