Leaders: Annie Hill (University of Texas at Austin) and Catherine Palczewski (University of Northern Iowa) What does it mean to be a witness, a spectator, a voyeur, or a bystander? […]
Leaders: Scott Sundvall (Florida International University), Sergio Figueiredo (Kennesaw State University) and Jason Crider (Texas A&M University) Everyday examples of post-truth continue to abound: conspiracy theorization; the undermining of institutions […]
Leaders: Timothy Barney (University of Richmond) and Heather Ashley Hayes (University of Alabama) Maps make arguments. They naturalize borders, render some places central and others peripheral, and convert contested terrain […]
Leaders: Noor Ghazal Aswad (University of Alabama) and Kendall Gerdes (University of Utah) This seminar explores theories of solidarity, coalition, and collective action. In a global yet increasingly divided world, […]
Leaders: Timothy Johnson (University of Louisville) and Gwendolyn Inocencio (Tarleton State University) Crisis has become our ambient condition. Pandemic, climate collapse, political polarization, extinction, precarity, and more. These situations anchor […]
The 2027 RSA Summer Institute promises to be extremely engaging and generative for participants’ work.
Leaders: Caddie Alford (Virginia Commonwealth University ), Robert Asen (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Jonathan Carter (Georgia Southwestern State University) Reaction–in digital culture and in politics–defines our contemporary era. Insisting on […]
Leaders: Rich Rice (Texas Tech University) and Lauren Maher (Texas Tech University) Proposal writing is a powerful form of public rhetoric. Grant proposals define problems and translate evidence into action. […]
Leaders: Lauren Cagle (University of Kentucky), Sharon Yam (University of Kentucky) and Melissa Yang (Emory University) Embodied rhetorics have drawn our attention to the role bodies play in rhetorical ecologies. […]
Leaders: Theon Hill (Wheaton College) and Jennifer LeMesurier (Pennsylvania State University) The leaders of the standalone Emerging Scholars program offer this Summer Institute Workshop as an extension of the larger […]
Leaders: Hannah Hopkins (Georgia State University) and Jennifer Clary-Lemon (University of Waterloo) Climate loss demands renewed strategies for attending to and composing with environs-in-flux. We might think of these as […]
Leaders: Kaitlyn Haynal (University of Mary Washington) and Ryan Cheek (Missouri University of Science & Technology) Artificial intelligence companies have produced a growing body of advertisements, launch videos, product pages, […]