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Last call for nominations for the 2026 Kairos Awards, due today, March 15! Check the 🧵below for info about the award, eligibility, and how to apply!
And if you're looking for other ways to stave off those post-conference blues or want to learn more about the Conference Creatures experiment, check out Locher & Rowland’s Disputatio webtext “Conference Creatures” in Kairos 30.2: kairos.technorhetoric.net/30.2/disputa...!
Feels like every day is a new riff on "what fresh hell is this," so help us spark some joy with Conference Creatures! If you were just at #4C26 and managed to adopt one, share a pic of your new crocheted pal (humans welcome too!) & tag us with @kairosrtp.bsky.social #ConferenceCreatures!
Last call for nominations for the Hawisher & Selfe Caring for the Future Scholarship, due today, February 28, 2026! Check the 🧵below for info about the award, eligibility, and how to apply!
For more info about the awards and eligibility criteria and/or to submit a nomination, check out the nomination link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Graduate students and contingent faculty working in fields relating to the mission of Kairos (computers and writing, rhetoric-and-technology, etc.) are eligible to be nominated for an award. Recipients can only win once per award but can be nominated/win for a different category in subsequent years.
The Teaching Award is given to a person who uses computers and writing pedagogies in her or his classroom-based practice to promote student learning.
The Scholarship Award is given to a person whose research and scholarship is already excellent and/or also shows future promise for having an impact on our field. The committee is not looking for "the webtext/article of the year" but rather a pattern of excellent scholarship.
The Service Award is given to a person whose work includes activities that promote excellent computers and writing pedagogy, theory, and community building.
Three awards will be given to grad students &/or contingent faculty in computers & writing in the areas of Service, Scholarship, & Teaching. Grad students & contingent faculty work in these areas but face institutional constraints that often undervalue—or flat out don't recognize—the work they do.
Until our nomination deadlines, Kairos will be spotlighting specific categories from our annual awards. Today we want to spotlight the Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty, due March 15, 2026. (For full descriptions of all the awards check out kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards.)
For more info about the award and eligibility criteria and/or to submit a nomination, check out the nomination link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Nominees need not be at any particular stage of their career to be considered. The key criterion is whether the nominee exhibits Bill's philosophy of giving.
The Bill Hart-Davidson Mentoring Award honors Bill's legacy by recognizing stellar individuals who (often quietly & with little fanfare) provide key supports that sustain us as teachers, scholars, designers & artists working to further our understanding of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
And he was particularly known for his mentorship and was a force for good in the world, and his philosophy of giving—"when in doubt, give more"—has become an aspirational model for us all.
Bill Hart-Davidson was one of our earliest supporters, serving on the inaugural editorial board until his passing in 2024. He was known for his prescient consideration of future technological challenges and his ability to consider issues from all sides and to bridge gaps between people and ideas.
Until our nomination deadlines, Kairos will be spotlighting specific categories from our annual awards. Today we want to spotlight the Bill Hart-Davidson Mentorship Award, due March 15, 2026. (For full descriptions of all the awards, check out kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards.)
For more info about the award and eligibility criteria and/or to submit a nomination, check out the nomination link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It underscores the valuable disciplinary contributions of such knowledge-creation & community-building by recognizing a person/project whose active, sustained engagement with rhet/comp or computers & writing using emerging communication tools best exemplifies John's model of a public intellectual.
The John Lovas Award is sponsored by Kairos in recognition and remembrance of John Lovas's contributions to the legitimation of academic knowledge sharing using the emerging tools of Web publishing, from blogging, to newsletters, to social media.
Until our nomination deadlines, Kairos will be spotlighting specific categories from our annual awards. Today we want to spotlight the John Lovas Award, due March 15, 2026. (For full descriptions of all the awards, check out kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards.)
For more info about the award and eligibility criteria and/or to submit a nomination, check out the nomination link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
All webtexts take advantage of the Web as a medium to present information in ways that traditional scholarly texts cannot. (Please see our list of past award winners at kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards/pastw... for some excellent examples!)
Webtexts are texts authored specifically for publication on the WWW. They can be scholarly examinations, individual & collaborative reviews, interactive exchanges between scholars, teachers, and practitioners, or extended interviews with leading scholars.
Until our nomination deadlines, Kairos will be spotlighting specific categories from our annual awards. Today we want to spotlight the Kairos Best Webtext Award, due March 15, 2026. (For full descriptions of all the awards, check out kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards.)