Calendar
Conferences
Below are some relevant regional, national, and international conferences, organized loosely by field. Within each category, the conferences are listed chronologically, starting with August.
Rhetoric and composition conferences are also tracked here and on the calls-for-papers site maintained by Penn’s English Department, which posts CFPs for conferences, journals, and edited collections. You can sign up for RSS feeds for many different subcategories.
- Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication
- Writing Programs and Centers
- English Studies
- Education
- Applied Linguistics
- Popular Culture and Digital Humanities
Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication
September
Feminisms and Rhetorics (biennial)
October
Thomas R. Watson Conference (biennial)
Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference
November
National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention
January
Midwest Winter Workshop (rotates annually; usually held at a Big Ten school)
February
Writing Research Across Borders
March
CCCC Annual Convention
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) Annual Conference
April
Allerton English Articulation Conference
May
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Conference (biennial)
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Institute (biennial)
June
Computers and Writing
Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Young Rhetoricians’ Conference
July
Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition (biennial)
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Writing Programs and Centers
October
Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference
International Writing Centers Association Conference (biennial)
November
National Conference of Peer Tutors in Writing
June
International Writing Centers Association Summer Institute
International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (biennial)
July
Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference and Institutes
English Studies
September/October
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
November
Midwest Chapter, Modern Language Association
January
MLA Annual Convention
Education
October
Illinois Association of Teachers of English Conference
November
NCTE Annual Convention
April
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting
Applied Linguistics and TESL
October
Symposium on Second Language Writing
March
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Convention
Popular Culture and Digital Humanities
October
Midwest Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference
Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
March
National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference
April
Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) Conference