The 7th Annual GES Conference will be held February 22-23, 2002 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The theme of this year's conference, "Past and Future Perspectives: Negotiating our Changing Field," addresses our changing field from the graduate scholar's perspective. The palindrome of the year suggests examination of ways our past can help us deal with our future regarding issues arising from new theories, cultural shifts, evolving technologies, and recent discoveries.

For the Technical Communication proposals we will be looking for a focus on past and future perspectives. How has the past of Technical Communication and other related areas informed the future of Technical Communication? What new theories, shifts, technologies and discovers will impact how we teach, study, and perceive Technical Communication? What can we do to negotiate these changes and the changing field?

Topics to consider the past and future perspectives in Technical Communication include, but are not limited to the following:

• Technical Communication and the Internet
• Perceptions of Technical Communication
• Program and Curriculum Development
• Technology and Technology Criticism
• Ethics and Technical Communication
• Rhetoric of Science & the Environment
• Workplace Writing
• Technical Communication Genre: Reports, Manuals, Memos, and more
• Rhetoric and Theory
• Research Methods and Methodology in Technical Communication (including field methods and usability)
• Issues in Information Management, Document Design, and Web Design

E-mail submissions are strongly encouraged; please put ?GES Conference Proposal? in the subject line for all electronic submissions. Participants may present no more than two papers or be on no more than two panels. Abstracts/Proposals (250 words) and inquiries should send to the addres provided below. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings