UMass Boston

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Theme: Writing Back in Times of Crisis

The Composition Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston is pleased to host Engaging Practices as a free, biennial conference that provides space for participants to develop and share knowledge on writing, rhetoric, and composition instructional theory and practice. We invite writing researchers, teachers, tutors, program administrators, and students to participate and attend.

This year’s conference will feature a plenary session led by Dr. Ira Allen, associate professor of rhetoric, writing, and digital media studies at Northern Arizona University and author of Panic Now?: Tools for Humanizing (2024, University of Tennessee Press).

We are currently accepting proposals for panels, individual presentations, roundtables, and workshops for the 8th meeting of Engaging Practices. Pre-registration will open in February.

Proposals due February 14, 2025

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