REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER 10
FOR CONFERENCE DISCOUNT
The discounted rate of $129 for rooms at the Radisson hotel will end on
Wednesday, September 10. If you plan to attend the conference, please
register before then. After September 10 you will need to pay considerably
more. It will help all of us if you register at the hotel, since we
have reserved a block of rooms and must fill them.
P.S. The deadline for regular registration rates for the conference is
September 26. So while you are here on the web site, why not register
for both the hotel and the conference?
Welcome
The 2008 CPTSC conference will be held on October 2-4, 2008 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis—where CPTSC began. The Minnesota Department of Writing Studies is excited to host the annual conference and 35th anniversary celebration here in Minneapolis. Join us as we look at Programs in Context: Past, Present, and Future.
The University of Minnesota is proud to be the birthplace of CPTSC. The Minnesota Elmer L. Andersen Library holds the archives of CPTSC, including the initiating letter from Tom Pearsall. But our history goes back further than that. The University of Minnesota will also be celebrating 100 years of rhetoric—a long perspective that covers many contexts for technical and scientific communication, from our beginnings on the agrarian St. Paul campus to our newest incarnation as the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Liberal Arts.
The Past is preserved in the Charles Babbage Institute, an archive and research center dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of information technology, the Andersen Horticultural Library, which includes books and periodicals on horticulture, botany, natural history and landscape architecture, the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine collection of rare books and manuscripts dating from the early 1400s to 1920 on medicine, biology, and natural history, and the Immigration History Research Center, dedicated to fostering research on and understanding of the history of the American immigrant.
Our Present wider context is a complex mix of culture—from world renowned Guthrie Theatre, to the Open Book, to the Mall of America—and technological challenge, like the the collapse and rebuilding of the 35W Bridge. You can experience excursions to the Walker Art Center downtown or historic St. Anthony Falls and Mill City on the Mississippi River after the business meeting on Saturday morning.
The University of Minnesota is preparing for the Future with Active Learning Classrooms and a state-of-the-art Usability Lab. Tours of these facilities will be available during the conference.
This is an exciting time for all of us in CPTSC to come back to our roots and contemplate the present and future states of scientific and technical communication—and Minnesota is a great place to do so!
Come join us in October!
