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COEHD requests faculty, student papers for symposium

(Dec. 19, 2003)--The UTSA College of Education and Human Development (COEHD) is calling for papers for an upcoming UTSA research symposium, "Voices of the Other in Educational and Civic Discourses."

The conference is open to UTSA faculty members and graduate students, and the deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, Feb. 6, 2004. Registration information for the symposium will be announced later.

The COEHD-sponsored symposium is April 1, 2004, in the University Center Laurel Room (2.01.28), 1604 Campus. Event organizers are Associate Professor Thomas Ricento and Professor Rosalind Horowitz.

Keynote speaker for the conference is Professor Otto Santa Ana of the UCLA Chavez Center for Chicana/o Studies. Santa Ana is the author of the award-winning book "Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse" (University of Texas Press, 2002), and editor of "Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

"We're soliciting abstracts from UTSA faculty and graduate students from any discipline," said Ricento. "Papers based on original research and related to the topic of the symposium will be considered. Abstracts will be evaluated in a double-blind peer review process. We are considering publishing the proceedings depending upon the nature of the papers received and presented."

"We especially encourage graduate students to apply," said Horowitz. "We ask that master's and doctoral students have their faculty supervisor, thesis or dissertation chair sign the abstract to indicate they have read and support the proposal."

Guidelines for Papers

Papers may be either empirical studies employing qualitative and/or quantitative methods from any of the social sciences or humanities, or conceptual studies that problematize research paradigms or theoretical orientations or assumptions and suggest alternative conceptualizations.

Topics can include but are not limited to:

  • Analysis of discourses or texts, including oral, written or visual media from any genre and institutional setting -- including analysis of media, political speeches, teacher and student classroom discourse, advertising, textbooks, professional discourses (including any variety of academic, legal, medical or sports discourse) or conversational analysis
  • Critical analysis of current research paradigms and epistemological orientations, along with suggested modifications or reanalysis of such paradigms and orientations

Criteria used in evaluating abstracts:

  • Relevance of the topic to the symposium theme
  • Quality of the proposed paper as evidenced by a clear theoretical framework and methodological rigor
  • Length of abstract: 250 words (References may be included following the abstract; these will not be counted against the 250-word limit.)

Abstracts for papers should be sent electronically to Thomas Ricento. Paper presentations will be 30 minutes in length, and an honorarium will be provided for each presenter.

For more information, contact Thomas Ricento or Rosalind Horowitz at 210-458-2672.

--Tim Brownlee

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