Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute 2023

Seminars/Workshops

 

* Limited space available for remote participation.** Not available for remote participation.

 

Seminars, May 22-25 

  1. *Decolonizing Comparative Global Rhetorics (Romeo García, LuMing Mao, and Hua Zhu)
  2. **Revisiting Cold War Rhetorics (Allison Prasch and David Zarefsky) 
  3. *Rhetorical Listening in Action: Negotiating Troubled Identifications in Troubled Times (Kyle Jensen, Krista Ratcliffe, and Jessica Rivera-Mueller)
  4. **Poiesies of the Future: The Transdisciplinarity of Climate Change, Migration, and Land-Based Ethics (Ralph Cintron, Michelle Hall Kells, and Donnie J. Sackey)
  5. *Graphic Medicine and the Rhetoric of Health (KC Councilor, Catherine Gouge, and Blake Scott) 
  6. *CounterTheory: Storying Race, Gender, and Disability in Rhetorics of Resistance (Jo Hsu, Vani Kannan, and Aja Martinez)
  7. *Archival Methodologies Reimagined: Responding to Tomorrow’s Dilemmas (Candace Epps-Robertson, Ann George, and Tarez Graban)
  8. *Transnationalism and New Rhetorics of Human Rights (Kundai Chirindo, Wendy Hesford, and Arabella Lyon) 
  9. *The Future is Feminist/Rhetoric (Annie Hill, Kaitlyn Patia, and Jacqueline Rhodes)

 

Plenary, May 25

Anjali Vats, University of Pittsburgh, on the topic of “race, politics, and the law.”

 

Workshops, May 25-27

  1. *Establishing the Black Rhetorical Tradition: The Colored Conventions and African American Rhetoric in the 19th Century (Andre E. Johnson and Denise Burgher)
  2. *Asian/American Feminist Rhetorics and Intersectional Labor Politics (Terese Guinsatao Monberg and Jennifer Sano-Franchini)
  3. *Narrative Methods for Material Rhetorics (Sonia Arellano and Dustin Edwards)
  4. *Global Rhetorics of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Design in Technical and Professional Communication (Steve Fraiberg and Huatong Sun)
  5. *Sound Characters (Eric Detweiler, Rosa Eberly, Jennifer Isasi, and Karrieann Soto Vega)
  6. **Creative Critical Work and Rhetorical Practice (Fiona (Freddie) Harris-Ramsby and Jacqueline Rhodes)
  7. *Mobilizing Memory Studies: Activism, Inclusive Design, and Pedagogy (Will Kurlinkus and Lauren Obermark)
  8. *Deliberation in the Classroom and Community (Pamela Conners and Sara Mehltretter Drury) 
  9. *Contingency, Doxa, and Rhetoric’s Pasts and Futures (Caddie Alford and Jordan Loveridge)
  10. *Secrecy, Surveillance, and Settler Colonialism (Atilla Hallsby and Michael Lechuga)
  11. *Material Feminisms and the Rhetoricity of Work (Sarah Hallenbeck and Michelle Smith) 
  12. *Writing & Rhetoric in Crisis, Containment, and Collective Action (Amy Lueck and Brice Nordquist)
  13. **Queer(ing) Archival Imaginaries (Ames Hawkins and Pamela Van Haitsma)
  14. **Rhetoric and Mindfulness (Jeremy Engels)
  15. *Rhetorics for All (Brandon Inabinet and Maegan Parker Brooks)
  16. *Rhetorical Education with the World on Fire (Roxanne Mountford, Michael Steudeman, and Amy Wan)
  17. *Disability Rhetorics: Science and Rhetoric Beyond the Norm (Jordynn Jack and Shannon Walters)
  18. *Prophecy and Politics: Martin Luther King, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, and White Fundamentalists (Bill FitzGerald and Keith D. Miller)
  19. *Race, Speculation, Futurity (Matthew Houdek and Louis M. Maraj)
  20. *Making a Career in Rhetoric (Denise Bostdorff and Stephanie Kerschbaum)
  21. *The Art and Practice of Grant Writing (S. Scott Graham, Debra Hawhee, and Dave Tell) 
  22. *Turning the Dissertation into a Book (Allison Rowland and Sharon Yam)
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