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Here's a link to the new online journal Glossator, which welcomes articles about "glossing"/commentary. Their statement of purpose: Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia (catena, commentum, gemara, glossa, hypomnema, midrash, peser, pingdian, scholia, tafsir, talkhis, tika, vritti, zend, zhangju, et al).

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This just in from Gordon Mitchell at Pitt. A great way of making use of the Internet for conference work:

Greetings friends and colleagues,

Sean Lawson, Gordon Mitchell, David Seitz and Michael Vicaro invite you to
visit our "open source" NCA panel at:

http://torturepanel.wordpress.com/

Here, you can track how our abstracts are evolving into full papers, peruse
the panel logistics, suggest improvements, or just throw virtual tomatoes.
By inviting audience participation during the panel run-up, we hope to tap

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Looking good, folks:

Submissions for the Minneapolis Convention closed on Friday, and we have had a busy weekend sorting out the proposals and sending them to reviewers. All evidence indicates that we will have another well attended and interesting meeting this May. Here are some highlights:

* Over 850 proposals were submitted.
* They have been sent out to 68 reviewers, with each proposal being evaluated by two reviewers.
* We intend to announce the results of the selection process before Thanksgiving.

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The Center for Democratic Deliberation (CDD) and the Penn State University Press are pleased to announce a new book series, “Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation,” edited by Cheryl Glenn and J. Michael Hogan.

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The Southern Colloquium on Rhetoric announces its third meeting to be held at the College of Charleston, 1-5pm, Friday, September 18. The topic will be rhetoric and narcissism; the featured text will be Jimmy Carter's crisis of confidence speech (the "malaise speech"); and Pat Caddell, one of the architects of that speech, will join us for part of the seminar. Space is limited. Full details are available on the newly redesigned SCoR Website: http://www.southerncolloqrhetoric.net/

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Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to
announce the release of Issue 14.1 for Fall 2000. Our theme and our
content for this issue can best be expressed by quoting editor Cheryl
Ball's summary from Logging On:

#InThisIssue

Inventio: Delagrange reflects on Wunderkammer webtext process in "When
Revision is Redesign: Key Qs for Digital Schol." http://bit.ly/8HLki

Praxis: Carter & Dunbar-Odom present "Converging Literacies Center," a
model for writing programs w/iPhone interface! http://bit.ly/RbBlx

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Research Network: Sharing Work In Progress

This year at RSA participants have the option to participate in a "Research Network: Sharing Work in Progress" instead of or in addition to submitting an individual, panel, or special format proposal. Participants in the Network will be listed on the program (and are therefore eligible for funding from many home departments) and committed to distributing some sort of work in progress to colleagues before the conference.

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The Responsibilities of Rhetoric: RSA Conference Volume Is Published

If you attended the 2008 RSA Conference in Seattle, you will soon be receiving (if you haven't already) your copy of the edited collection that emerged from the conference. The Responsibilities of Rhetoric, edited by Michelle Smith and Barbara Warnick, comes to each conference participant for free, paid for out of conference registration fees. RSA thanks Michelle, Barbara, and the various contributors (as well as Waveland Press) for producing such an outstanding volume in such a timely manner.

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The Spring 2009 issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly is now out. Quite an all-star cast of rhetoricians: Elizabeth Britt, "Dangerous Deliberation: Subjective Probability and Rhetorical Democracy in the Jury Room"; Dave Tell, "Jimmy Swaggart's Secular Confession"; Alan G.

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