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SUMMARY:"Rhetorical In/Dignities" RSA 2026 Conference
DESCRIPTION:In 2026\, we will turn our attention to “Rhetorical In/Dignities\,” asking what it might mean to locate the histories and futures of rhetorical studies through in/dignities. For many of us the promise of rhetoric lies in the persistent vulnerabilities\, contradictions\, and contingencies of discourse. These entanglements—of dignities with indignities—amplify the need for rhetorical conversations\, theories\, and debates. \nWe hope you are able to join us at the conference! Members must be logged into their active member account in order to access the member rates. If you are not yet a member and wish to join (or renew) in order to register at the member rate\, please complete your membership first\, before purchasing a conference registration. As a reminder\, all conference presenters must be members of RSA\, so why not check your membership now? \n2026 Registration Rates – Register by February 28\, 2026 for best rates!\nRegular Registration (closes 11:59 pm ET February 28\, 2026) \nRSA Regular Member Registration – $299RSA Contingent and Retired Member Registration – $175RSA Graduate Student Member Registration – $100Non-Member Registration – $700 (maybe just join!)Non-Member Graduate Student Registration – $300 \nLifetime ENHANCED Registration – $0 \nLifetime Enhanced members should have received an email with instructions for registration. This is not the same as a regular Lifetime membership; Lifetime Enhanced memberships are no longer sold. If you are a Lifetime Enhanced member and did not receive an email\, please contact RSA2026@rhetoricsociety.org. \nLate Registration (March 1 to May 19\, 2026) \nRSA Member Registration – $350RSA Contingent and Retired Member Registration – $225RSA Graduate Student Member Registration – $150Non-Member Registration – $750Non-Member Graduate Student Registration – $350On-Site Registration (Beginning May 20\, 2026) \nRSA Member Registration – $400RSA Contingent and Retired Member Registration – $275RSA Graduate Student Member Registration – $175Non-Member Registration – $800Non-Member Graduate Student Registration – $400 \n  \nPLAN TO JOIN US FOR PRECONFERENCES: THURSDAY\, MAY 21 \n \n \nBefore concurrent sessions begin on Friday morning\, a number of preconference sessions will take place on Thursday\, May 21 and you are welcome to join! Some sessions require preregistration so please take note here. \n\n\n \n\nPITCHING AND PUBLISHING YOUR FIRST BOOK: Thursday 1:00 – 4:00 PM – Led by Kelly Ritter\, the workshop is open to any RSA members seeking help in framing a first book topic\, articulating their book’s intervention\, identifying a publisher that is a good match for their project\, and putting that first proposal together. Incorporating both large-group discussion and small group hands-on review and commentary on proposals and ideas\, participants will come out of this workshop with a plan for action regarding their project.  There is no cost for this workshop\, but you must be a member of RSA and registered for the conference. This session is limited to 20 participants and you must apply. Applications will be accepted until March 1\, 2026. For more information or questions\, please contact Kelly Ritter at kelly.ritter@gatech.edu.\n\n\n\nRSA 26 RESEARCH NETWORK: Thursday 12:00 pm – 5:00 PM –  Apply here by February 20! Join us for the RSA 2026 Research Network.  Join us for the RSA 2026 Research Network. Beginning with a lunch together\, the Research Network provides members of our profession\, especially graduate students and early-career faculty\, with an opportunity to receive feedback on a work-in-progress in a small group session led by scholars committed to supporting new work. We especially encourage advanced graduate students\, recent graduates\, and beginning assistant professors whose circumstances allow them limited mentorship opportunities to apply this year. Whatever your professional situation\, the Research Network is a wonderful opportunity to engage some of the field’s best mentors and focus on projects that matter to you. For more information for questions\, please contact Emily Winderman at ewinderm@umn.edu or Timothy Oleksiak at Timothy.Oleksiak@umb.edu.\n\n\n\n\n\nASHR/ISHR Preconference: Thursday 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM – The American Society for the History of Rhetoric and the International Society for the History of Rhetoric will be convening together at RSA 2026. The 2026 ASHR Symposium theme\, “Rhetorical History’s Past\, Present\, and Future\,” invites scholars to recognize this legacy and to reflect on the theories\, methods\, and critical practices that define its scope and purpose. Submissions are no longer being accepted but you can attend the presentations to hear a great slate of papers in the History of Rhetoric. For more information for questions\, please contact Allison Prasch at aprasch@wisc.edu.\n\n\n\nNCERW Preconference: Thursday 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM – The theme of this year’s National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing Preconference is Environmental Rhetorics: Enacting Land-Based Praxis Toward Healing\, Transformation\, and Restorative Activism. For more information\, to receive the schedule\, or for questions please contact Michelle Kells at mkells@unm.edu.\n\n\n\nARSTM  Preconference: Thursday 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM – The theme of this year’s Association for the Rhetoric os Science\, Technology\, and Medicine preconference is impact. The etymological origins of impact trace to seventeenth-century Latin for “push into\, drive into\, strike against.”[1] In today’s universities\, impact often functions like a “god term\,” invoking an unquestionable and much-sought but ill-defined good. Universities want more and more impact\, often defined by the number of citations accrued by the most prestigious scientists. But counter-movements to this reductive understanding of impact are underway. For example\, the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) emphasizes the limitations of citation counts as a measure of research quality and enjoins global stakeholders to seek alternative measurements of scholarly impact that achieve “consistency and transparency” and “directly address the structural inequalities in academia.”[2] In the first place\, then\, by theming the pre-conference around impact\, we invite submissions that interrogate the measures currently used to evaluate research and community engagement as well as those that articulate  more just rubrics for distributing institutional resources\, with specific attention to inequities arising from race-\, gender-\, geography-\, and class-based disparities in scholarly publishing. ARSTM Membership is required to attend. For more information on how to become a member\, as well as for up-to-date Preconference information\, please visit our website at https://www.arstmonline.org/.” For questions\, please contact Dustin Greenwalt at dustin.greenwalt@siu.edu.\n\n\n\nDISCUSSION GROUPS with REFRESHMENTS Thursday 6:00 – 8:00 PM – RSA Discussion Groups provide opportunities for focused interaction and collaboration among RSA members who share an interest in exploring particular questions and problems in rhetorical studies. Discussion Groups are to advance the RSA project of supporting development of intellectual common group among people who study and teach rhetoric in a variety of disciplinary locations. In 2026 discussions will include:\n\nWhen to Talk\, and When to Fight: Organizing Against Attacks on Higher Ed\n\n\n\nStudy of Extremist Rhetorics Interest Group\n\n\n\nIn/Dignities of Feminist Research: Feminist Responsiveness to Gender Performativity by Conservative White Women\n\n\n\nCritical Refugee Studies\n\n\n\n\n\nCROSS-INSTITUTIONAL CONVERSATIONS – IN DIALOGUE AT RSA with REFRESHMENTS: Thursday 6:00 – 8:00 PM – This session brings together RSA members across career stages for small-group conversations around shared research interests. Participants will be matched in advance based on research focus\, with space for on-site sign-ups as well. Designed as an informal\, peer-level exchange\, the session offers a welcoming way to connect\, collaborate\, and engage—no paper or panel required. Sign-up here so we can build our groups before you come. For more information for questions\, please contact Rachael McIntosh at mcintosh.r@northeastern.edu or Mikayla Torres at mikayla.torres@colorado.edu.\n\n \n[1] Origin and History of Impact. (n.d.). Etymonline. https://www.etymonline.com/word/impact \n\n\n \n[2] About DORA. (n.d.). Declaration on Research Assessment. https://sfdora.org/about-dora/
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/2026-conference/
LOCATION:Hilton Portland Downtown\, 921 SW 6th Ave\, Portland\, Oregon\, 97204-1124
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:2026 RSA Emerging Scholars Program
DESCRIPTION:RSA is pleased to announce the launch of the Second Cohort of the Emerging Scholars Program for 2026-2027. This initiative aims to clarify the practices and principles of academic life to equip a new generation of rhetorical leaders and expand the future possibilities for the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) and the field of rhetoric. For more information\, and to submit an application prior to the December 15\, 2025 deadline\, please visit here.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/2026-rsa-emerging-scholars-program/
LOCATION:Chicago\, IL
CATEGORIES:RSA Programs,Student Event
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SUMMARY:RSA Remote: Navigating Choppy Waters - Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this upcoming RSA Remote\, a webinar with Dr. Kent Kauffman\, author of Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know (Bloomsbury 2024). Click here to find the publisher’s page. \nYou can register for the Zoom meeting here. \nStemming from last spring’s RSA Town Hall WTF (When Talking Fulfills)\, RSA is dedicated to helping members respond to and hopefully counter political attacks\, misinformation\, and other threats in an increasingly dangerous climate both on and off campus. We want to heed the call from that Town Hall regarding “The need to shift pedagogy to rethink democratic skills and rhetoric skills go hand in hand with democratic skills.” \nWhile the law seems increasingly capricious\, we still feel one avenue is awareness of legal issues and faculty rights. Please join Professor Kauffman as he discusses \n* employment protection\, tenure matters and the law (U.S.) \n* your Syllabus and Contract Law \n* Academic Freedom and First Amendment Cases. \nThe presentation will last about 40 minutes with about 20 minutes for Q&A. Note: Although he is a lawyer\, neither Kent Kauffman nor RSA can give legal advice. This is an informational session on academic case law in the United States so you can be aware of your rights. Drs. David M. Grant and Rebecca Dingo will moderate the discussion. \nThis webinar is brought to you by the RSA WTF Working Group: Kris Ratcliffe\, Kendall Gerdes\, Ryan Skinnell\, Elizabethada Wright\, Joshua Miller\, and Kerry Smith\, members. \nFor access information\, please register here no later than 9:00 am ET on Friday\, October 24. \nWe hope you can join this important conversation.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-remote-navigating-choppy-waters-key-legal-issues-faculty-need-to-know-2/
LOCATION:KY
CATEGORIES:RSA Remote
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T153000
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SUMMARY:RSA Remote: The Emerging Scholars Program Returns!
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you to our upcoming RSA Remote event featuring the return of our transformative Emerging Scholars Program. \nJOIN US to learn more about this groundbreaking initiative and hear directly from those who have experienced its impact! This RSA Remote session will spotlight the Emerging Scholars Program (formerly the IDEA Emerging Scholars Program) as it enters its second year. Our distinguished panelists will discuss how this initiative continues to equip a new generation of rhetorical leaders\, build lasting community among emerging scholars\, and expand future possibilities for RSA and the field of rhetoric. \nPanelists: \n\nDr. Brynn Fitzsimmons\, University of Alabama\, RSA’s incoming (summer 2026) IDEA Committee Chair\nDr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon\, University of Waterloo\, RSA Executive Board Member & incoming (summer 2026) IDEA Committee Vice Chair\nDr. Mari Ramler\, Tennessee Tech University\, RSA IDEA Committee Member\nParticipants from the first cohort sharing their experiences\n\nTopics to be covered: \n\nOverview of the Emerging Scholars Program and its evolution\nBuilding community and lasting professional networks among participants\nStrategies for making the “hidden curriculum” of academia transparent\nFostering non-competitive\, collaborative academic practices\nFirst-hand experiences from inaugural cohort members\nQ&A session on application process and eligibility\n\nThe first in-person event of the 2026 cohort of the Emerging Scholars Program will be held April 17-18\, 2026\, in Chicago\, Illinois. We welcome applications from individuals committed to fostering a more inclusive and representative climate within rhetorical studies and centering work that is frequently overlooked and ignored within mainstream research. We hope applications will represent a range of academic institutions. \nThis event is perfect for doctoral candidates\, early career faculty\, and anyone interested in the future of rhetoric and academia. Eligible applicants should be members of RSA and doctoral candidates or early career faculty members. Applicants will also be asked to provide a recent CV and a short reflection regarding their goals\, pedagogical/research interests\, and what they would hope to get out of this program. Applications will open here on Monday\, October 20 (after the webinar) and close Monday\, December 15\, 2025. Although this webinar is open to everyone\, you must be an active RSA member and logged into your account to apply. You can join any time here. \nFor access information\, please register here no later than 10:00 am ET on October 17. \nZoom login details will be sent to your registered email upon registration … don’t lose them! \nThank you to our sponsor: The Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society\, Villanova University \nDon’t miss this chance to learn about the continued impact of this vital program and hear directly from those who have been part of its transformative community!
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-remote-the-emerging-scholars-program-returns/
LOCATION:KY
CATEGORIES:RSA Remote,Student Event
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SUMMARY:RSA 2025 Virtual Institute
DESCRIPTION:New for 2025\, the Institute Workshops will be offered virtually. Most of these workshops will take place for a total of 8 hours across two days in June. Workshop titles\, leaders\, and descriptions are listed below. The leaders of three of the eight workshops will review applications for acceptance into their sessions. The deadline has passed to apply to those Workshops. \nFor the other workshops\, participants will be accepted first-come first served as they register\, until capacity is reached. You may apply and/or register for more than one workshop if the dates do not conflict. Registration will open very soon. \nPricing for this inaugural slate of workshops will be $100 for Faculty\, $75 for Grad Students\, and $50 for K-12 Teachers so that we can offer a small honorarium to all of our leaders. As we are offering this as a benefit of membership\, participants must be RSA members (K-12 teachers can join during their workshop) to apply and register once registration opens in December. You can join at any time here.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-2025-virtual-institute/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Leaders will host virtual workshops via their own Zoom accounts.\, United States
CATEGORIES:Institute
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ORGANIZER;CN="Leslie Dinauer":MAILTO:ExecutiveDirector@rhetoricsociety.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250602T080000
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SUMMARY:RSA 2025 Institute
DESCRIPTION:The rhetoric faculty and graduate students at the University of Cincinnati invite you to participate in the 11th biennial RSA Summer Institute. In 2025\, the University of Cincinnati will host traditional in-person seminars Monday\, June 2 to Thursday\, June 5. The seminars promise exciting intellectual opportunities for graduate students and faculty\, and many opportunities for networking.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-2025-institute/
LOCATION:University of Cincinnati\, 2600 Clifton Avenue\, Cincinnati\, OH\, 45221\, United States
CATEGORIES:Institute
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ORGANIZER;CN="John Lynch":MAILTO:lynchjo@ucmail.uc.edu
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SUMMARY:1st Annual RSA Scholarly Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:The first annual RSA scholarly writing retreat is a 4-day writing retreat aimed at the professional development of Rhetoric\, Writing\, and Communication scholars of color working on an early book project. While the development of the book project serves a pivotal role the retreat will also provide a healthy space for reflection and discussion of the profession\, and opportunities for digitally innovated scholarship or public facing projects. Participants are competitively selected; applications close November 1\, 2024.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/1st-annual-rsa-scholarly-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:KY
CATEGORIES:RSA Programs
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SUMMARY:RSA Remote: RSA Graduate Student Chapters
DESCRIPTION:This RSA Remote session will highlight current RSA Graduate Student Chapters. Panelists include chapter leaders and faculty advisors who will discuss what it takes to start and run a chapter\, the kinds of events and initiatives their chapters have undertaken\, and what their experiences of being involved with a chapter have been like across their varying programmatic and institutional contexts.\n\n\nPanelists:\n\nAli Rushevics\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nKai Prins\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nSarah Lawler\, University of Indiana Bloomington\nDr. Jon Arthos\, University of Indiana Bloomington\nKiera Gilbert\, Carnegie Mellon University\nOfficers from The University of Pittsburgh chapter\n\n\n\nModerator: Rachael McIntosh\, Graduate Student & Early Career Representative\, RSA Board of Directors\n\n\nAre you a member of or advisor to an active Grad Student Chapter? We want to know who you are and what you’re up to! Update your chapter’s information here by selecting “update” as the application type.\n\n\nFor access information\, please register here.  Zoom login information will be sent to your registered email prior to the event.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-remote-rsa-graduate-student-chapters/
LOCATION:KY
CATEGORIES:RSA Remote,Student Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T163000
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SUMMARY:RSA Remote: Unveiling the New IDEA Emerging Scholars Program
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you to our upcoming RSA Remote event featuring the IDEA Committee’s new initiative: \nRSA Remote: Unveiling the IDEA Emerging Scholars Program  \nFriday\, October 25th\, 2024 \n3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern Standard Time \nThis RSA Remote session will spotlight the newly launched 2025-2026 IDEA Emerging Scholars Program. Our distinguished panelists will discuss how this initiative aims to equip a new generation of rhetorical leaders and expand future possibilities for RSA and the field of rhetoric. \nPanelists: \n\nJennifer Lin LeMesurier\, RSA’s IDEA Chair (Colgate University)\nTheon E. Hill\, RSA’s Transformative Justice Officer (Wheaton College)\n\nTopics to be covered: \n\nOverview of the IDEA Emerging Scholars Program\nThe program’s focus on anti-racism and decolonization in rhetoric\nStrategies for making the “hidden curriculum” of academia transparent\nFostering non-competitive\, collaborative academic practices\nQ&A session on application process and eligibility\n\nThis event is perfect for doctoral candidates\, early career faculty\, and anyone interested in the future of rhetoric and academia. It’s also an excellent opportunity for those considering applying to the program\, as our panelists will provide insights and answer questions about the application process. \nFor access information\, please register here today! Zoom login details will be sent to your registered email on the morning of the event. \nThank you to our sponsor: The Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society\, Villanova University \nDon’t miss this chance to learn about this exciting new program and its potential impact on the field of rhetoric! \n 
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-remote-unveiling-the-new-idea-emerging-scholars-program/
LOCATION:KY
CATEGORIES:RSA Remote
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SUMMARY:RSA Remote: Navigating Choppy Waters - Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this upcoming RSA Remote\, a webinar with Dr. Kent Kauffman\, author of Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know (Bloomsbury 2024). Click here to find the publisher’s page. \nYou can register for the Zoom meeting here. \nStemming from last spring’s RSA Town Hall WTF (When Talking Fulfills)\, RSA is dedicated to helping members respond to and hopefully counter political attacks\, misinformation\, and other threats in an increasingly dangerous climate both on and off campus. We want to heed the call from that Town Hall regarding “The need to shift pedagogy to rethink democratic skills and rhetoric skills go hand in hand with democratic skills.” \nWhile the law seems increasingly capricious\, we still feel one avenue is awareness of legal issues and faculty rights. Please join Professor Kauffman as he discusses \n* employment protection\, tenure matters and the law (U.S.) \n* your Syllabus and Contract Law \n* Academic Freedom and First Amendment Cases. \nThe presentation will last about 40 minutes with about 20 minutes for Q&A. Note: Although he is a lawyer\, neither Kent Kauffman nor RSA can give legal advice. This is an informational session on academic case law in the United States so you can be aware of your rights. Drs. David M. Grant and Rebecca Dingo will moderate the discussion. \nThis webinar is brought to you by the RSA WTF Working Group: Kris Ratcliffe\, Kendall Gerdes\, Ryan Skinnell\, Elizabethada Wright\, Joshua Miller\, and Kerry Smith\, members. \nFor access information\, please register here no later than 9:00 am ET on Friday\, October 24. \nWe hope you can join this important conversation. \n 
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-remote-navigating-choppy-waters-key-legal-issues-faculty-need-to-know/
LOCATION:KY
CATEGORIES:RSA Remote
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20241004T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20241004T120000
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SUMMARY:RSA Remote: Rhetoricians Engaging the Public
DESCRIPTION:Fresh off our September 6th RSA Remote: Rhetoricians Engaging the Public featuring Maegan Parker Brooks and Lenny Grant\, please consider joining us for a new edition on academic freedom and public scholarship. \nRSA Remote: Rhetoricians Engaging the Public \nFriday\, October 4th\, 2024 \n11:00 am – 12:00 pm Eastern time (Please note the earlier time) \nThis RSA Remote session\, sponsored by the University Writing Program of Johns Hopkins University\, will be the second of the year in an ongoing series spotlighting the work of rhetoricians who engage the public in a wide variety of ways. This Remote will feature Jennifer Mercieca and Ryan Skinnell\, who will share their thoughts on the interrelations of public engagement with academic freedom. Mercieca and Skinnell are the leaders of the upcoming summer RSA Institute Seminar on the same subject\, and this Remote will be in advance of the seminars application deadline of October 15th. Do consider attending especially if you’re thinking about applying to the seminar! \nPanelists: \nJennifer Mercieca is an award-winning Professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism at Texas A&M University. She’s written three academic books and hundreds of articles. She’s been quoted by every major news organization in America\, delivered hundreds of public lectures\, and has appeared on national and international television. She’s currently writing a book called Fascism is for Losers. For more\, https://www.jennifermercieca.com/ \nRyan Skinnell is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing\, director of first-year writing\, and a faculty media expert in political speech and rhetoric at San José State University. He studies authoritarian\, demagogic\, and extremist rhetoric and has published six books\, more than 100 articles\, book chapters\, and op-eds\, and given more than 150 presentations to academic and non-academic audiences around the world\, with appearing in The Washington Post\, Salon\, the Journal of the History of Rhetoric\, Rhetoric Society Quarterly\, Newsweek\, and The Hill. \nMathew Pavesich\, Johns Hopkins University \nFor access information\, please register here.  Zoom login information will be sent to your registered email Friday morning.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-remote-rhetoricians-engaging-the-public-2/
LOCATION:KY
CATEGORIES:RSA Remote
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SUMMARY:RSA Remote: Rhetoricians Engaging the Public
DESCRIPTION:RSA Remote: Rhetoricians Engaging the Public \nFriday\, September 6\, 2024 \n3:00-4:00 pm Eastern time \nThis RSA Remote session will be the first in an ongoing series spotlighting the work of rhetoricians who engage the public in a wide variety of ways. This first remote session\, themed around grief and trauma\, will feature Maegan Parker Brooks and Lenny Grant\, who will share how they engage with the public on these crucial issues. The session will also include instructions on how to submit a project to the RSA’s digital catalogue of public humanities projects Rhetorics for All.  \n Panelists \n1.  Maegan Parker Brooks\, Willamette University\, Founding Organizer of the Diversity of Loss Grief Support Group\, Facilitator at The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families  \n2. Lenny Grant\, Syracuse University\, Onondaga Community Trauma Task Force\, Resilience Writing Project  \nModerator: Whitney Gent\, University of Nebraska Omaha \n\n Zoom login information will be sent to your registered email prior to the event.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-remote-rhetoricians-engaging-the-public/
LOCATION:KY
CATEGORIES:RSA Remote,Student Event
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SUMMARY:"Just Rhetoric\," RSA 2024 Conference
DESCRIPTION:The theme of the RSA 2024 biennial conference\, “Just Rhetoric\,” is meant to be generative and provocative. The theme allows us to imagine the possibilities of rhetoric as well as grapple with the meaning and place of rhetorical studies in this contemporary moment. “Just Rhetoric” allows us to examine rhetoric in relationship to social justice and freedom movements of the past and present. “Just Rhetoric” calls on us to question what is just\, what is fair\, and how rhetoric can help us achieve justice today. “Just Rhetoric” encourages us to explore the possibilities of public-facing rhetoric and gives us cause to question rhetoric’s role in the public sphere. “Just Rhetoric” is a space for us to just do rhetoric. And “Just Rhetoric” is about reclamation. For too long “just rhetoric” has been used to dismiss rhetoric. The 2024 conference will be a place to refute and refuse such dismissals. \nWe hope you are able to join us at the conference! You can add a registration to your cart via the event registration system to the right. If you are not yet a member and wish to join in order to register at the member rate\, or if you wish to renew your membership as part of this transaction\, after you’ve added a conference registration to your cart click “Join” at the top of the page to be taken to the Membership area where you can also add a membership to your cart. \n2024 Registration Rates\nRegular Registration (closes 11:59 pm ET February 29\, 2024) \nRSA Regular Member Registration ($260.00)\nRSA Contingent and Retired Member Registration ($155.00)\nRSA Graduate Student Member Registration ($100.00)\nNon-Member Registration ($600.00)\nNon-Member Graduate Student Registration ($285.00)\n\nLate Registration (March 1 to May 21\, 2024) \nRSA Member Registration ($280.00)\nRSA Contingent and Retired Member Registration ($175.00)\nRSA Graduate Student Member Registration ($120.00)\nNon-Member Registration ($625.00)\nNon-Member Graduate Student Registration ($305.00)\n\nOn-Site Registration (Beginning May 22\, 2024) \nRSA Member Registration (310.00)\nRSA Contingent and Retired Member Registration ($195.00)\nRSA Graduate Student Member Registration ($140.00)\nNon-Member Registration ($650.00)\nNon-Member Graduate Student Registration ($325.00)
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/2024-conference-just-rhetoric/
LOCATION:Sheraton Denver Downtown\, 1550 Court Place\, Denver\, Colorado\, 80202
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:RSA Remote: RSA-PSUP Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
DESCRIPTION:RSA Remote: RSA-PSUP Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric\n \n\n\nFriday\, April 26\, 2024 \n\n3:30-4:30 pm Eastern time \n\nThis RSA Remote session will spotlight the RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric\, which has been publishing books with Penn State University Press for about a decade now. The remote session will feature series editors Leah Ceccarelli and Michael Bernard-Donals\, series author Jenell Johnson\, and Acquisitions Editor Archna Patel. Panelists will discuss the purpose and future of the series\, consider the work of transdisciplinarity\, and take participants through the submission process. \n\n Panelists \n\n1.  Professor Jenell Johnson\, University of Wisconsin-Madison and series author (Every  \n\nLiving Thing: The Politics of Life in Common) \n\n2. Leah Ceccarelli\, University of Washington\, Series Editor \n\n3. Michael Bernard-Donals\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\, Series Editor \n\n4. Archna Patel\, Penn State Press\, Acquisitions Editor \n\nModerator: Debbie Hawhee\, RSA Publications Committee Chair \n \n \nZoom login information will be sent to your registered email prior to the event.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/rsa-remote-rsa-psup-series-in-transdisciplinary-rhetoric/
LOCATION:KY
CATEGORIES:RSA Remote,Student Event
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