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SUMMARY:Workshop 7: Fractal Rhetorics Interventions: A Design Thinking Approach to Scaling Feminist Rhetorical Action
DESCRIPTION:Leaders: Tammie M. Kennedy (University of Nebraska at Omaha) and Jessi Thomsen (Western Kentucky University) \nWhat becomes possible when we treat feminist rhetorical action not as a\nchoice between small interventions and large-scale change\, but as a both/and? In this\nworkshop\, participants will work as a community of thinkers and doers to explore that question\nthrough “fractal rhetorics” and a collaborative design thinking process. Drawing on the fractal as\na “theory-in-motion” (Maier et al. 2020)\, we will zoom in on the often overlooked\, sometimes\nnearly invisible actions through which feminist rhetorical work takes shape\, gains momentum\,\nand sustains itself over time. At the same time\, we will zoom out\, tracing how these seemingly\nsmall actions repeat\, reverberate\, and accumulate across larger systems\, communities\, and\nstructures. Design thinking offers participants a practical methodology for moving between these\nscales. Through iterative\, collaborative activities\, participants will identify places where focused\nfractal interventions might interrupt entrenched patterns\, open new possibilities\, or make larger\nchange more imaginable. Rather than approaching “wicked problems” as puzzles that can be\nneatly solved\, we will ask how attending to scale\, repetition\, relation\, and movement can reveal\npoints of intervention that might otherwise remain unseen. Participants will leave the workshop\nwith two interconnected outcomes. First\, they will gain frameworks and methods for bringing\nfractal rhetorics and design thinking into their own feminist commitments\, teaching\, scholarship\,\norganizing\, and other practices. Second\, each participant will develop a tangible deliverable\nresponding to a “wicked problem” they bring to the workshop—turning theory into motion and\nleaving with a concrete intervention designed to keep moving. \nNote from the organizers:\nAs per previous workshops\, there may be pre-reading and pre-work required before June. Your leaders will reach out to you some time after registration with additional details. \nThere will be no A/V equipment available in this workshop. The workshop leaders encourage participants to bring charged devices with their preferred hardware and software pre-loaded\, especially for any participants who have accessibility needs. You should indicate any accessibility needs on your registration form.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/workshop-7-fractal-rhetorics-interventions-a-design-thinking-approach-to-scaling-feminist-rhetorical-action/
LOCATION:Galt House Hotel\, 140 N. Fourth Street\, Louisville\, KY\, 40202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Institute
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SUMMARY:Workshop 8: Updating Our Privacy Settings: Protecting Our Public Places\, Bodies\, and Classrooms
DESCRIPTION:Leaders: Chen Chen (Utah State University)\, Emily Gillo (University of Memphis)\, Noah Wason (University of New York at Cortland)\, Charles Woods (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Sarah Young (University of Arizona) \nIn an age of ubiquitous digital surveillance\, the issue of privacy is paramount. While rhetorical\nscholarship has examined privacy thoroughly\, including strong critiques and equally strong\ndefenses\, the rhetorical geographies of privacy have been taken for granted. In this workshop\,\nwhich is facilitated by members of the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective (DRPC)\n(drpcollective.com) and connected to the publication of our edited collection\, Privacy Settings\,\navailable in Spring 2027 from the University of Pittsburgh Press\, participants will interrogate how\nprivacy is contextualized under varying terms of engagement across public spaces\, bodily\nborders\, and learning landscapes. A play on words\, “privacy settings\,” as our guiding framework\nfor the workshop\, offers insight on the places and spaces where privacy and surveillance are in\ntension as well as the choices (the settings) users choose to take control of their privacy.\nGuided by discussions on scholarship in surveillance studies\, rhetoric/communication theories\,\nwriting studies\, and intersectional and embodied analysis\, participants will work on deliverables\nof their choices that interrogate and investigate issues of privacy and surveillance. The\nworkshop topics draw from the three sections of our edited collection: Public Spaces\, Bodily\nBorders\, and Learning Landscapes. Other than exploring scholarly conversations\, participants\nwill gain practical resources on how to protect our privacy in day-to-day life and how to teach\nstudents to be more conscious of privacy issues and be better custodians of our rights to\nprivacy. Participants will work towards developing research project ideas\, public-facing projects\,\nor pedagogical materials by the completion of the workshop. \nNote from the organizers:\nAs per previous workshops\, there may be pre-reading and pre-work required before June. Your leaders will reach out to you some time after registration with additional details.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/workshop-8-updating-our-privacy-settings-protecting-our-public-places-bodies-and-classrooms/
LOCATION:Galt House Hotel\, 140 N. Fourth Street\, Louisville\, KY\, 40202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Institute
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SUMMARY:Workshop 9: Community-Engaged Rhetorical Work
DESCRIPTION:Leaders: Amy Lueck (Santa Clara University) and Brice Nordquist (Syracuse University) \nUniversities often struggle to connect community engagement\, teaching\, and research into\nsustained systems of impact. This session introduces Syracuse University’s Engaged\nHumanities Network (EHN) and the Ohlone Heritage Hub at Santa Clara University as scalable\nmodels for integrating community-engaged research\, teaching\, and creative work into a\ncohesive\, place-based infrastructure that advances community well-being. In addition to\nproviding an overview of these programs and their conceptual frameworks\, the session\nhighlights how storytelling functions as both a method and a metric—capturing impact through\nnarrative\, public performance\, and co-produced knowledge. \nThis session will introduce a conceptual framework of community-engaged rhetorics as\nmeshwork\, in which learning emerges through interconnected relationships across institutions\nand communities rather than within isolated structures. Participants will examine how\ndecentralized but coordinated systems—characterized by mutual support\, co-mentorship\, and\nshared infrastructure—can produce durable\, community-centered and community-driven\noutcomes while strengthening democratic processes. \nCo-facilitated by faculty directors from two university contexts\, the workshop will include case\nstudies\, visual models of networked infrastructure\, and examples of participatory and\nstorytelling-based assessment tools. Participants will gain practical strategies for designing\nequitable cross-sector partnerships\, using mixed-method approaches to assess impact\, and\naligning institutional work with community-defined priorities. They will reflect\, strategize\, and\nbuild community through the application of these models and strategies to their own\ninstitutional contexts and projects. \nNote from the organizers:\nAs per previous workshops\, there may be pre-reading and pre-work required before June. Your leaders will reach out to you some time after registration with additional details. \nThere will be no A/V equipment available in this workshop. The workshop leaders encourage participants to bring charged devices with their preferred hardware and software pre-loaded\, especially for any participants who have accessibility needs. You should indicate any accessibility needs on your registration form.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/workshop-9-community-engaged-rhetorical-work/
LOCATION:Galt House Hotel\, 140 N. Fourth Street\, Louisville\, KY\, 40202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Institute
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SUMMARY:Workshop 10: Rhetoric and Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:Leaders: Jeremy Engels (Pennsylvania State University) \nMindfulness has become incredibly popular in North America during the twenty-first century.\nHow might this ancient practice\, first developed by Buddhists in what is now northern India and\nsouthern Nepal over two millennia ago\, speak to the concerns of rhetorical studies—and what can\nrhetorical scholars add to the contemporary cultural conversation on mindfulness? These are the\nquestions we take up in this workshop. Our shared goal in this workshop is to understand how\nmindfulness might contribute to rhetorical studies and how rhetorical scholars might contribute to\ncontemporary conversations about mindfulness. Together we will investigate how mindfulness practice\ncan aid rhetorical practice by challenging the inner workings of the attention economy. We will study\ntheories and histories of mindfulness\, illuminating the curious blind spot that exists in relation to\nlanguage and symbol use in many contemporary conversations about meditation—hence building a\ncase for the importance of the type of work we do as rhetorical scholars. And we will practice\nmindfulness meditation\, focusing\, in particular\, on mindfulness of language. This workshop will\nintroduce participants to a number of mindfulness resources and practices they can use in the\nclassroom and engage in their scholarship. My hope is that it will jumpstart new\, cutting edge research\non mindfulness and rhetoric\, as well as build collaborations that will enrich that research. \nNote from the organizers:\nAs per previous workshops\, there may be pre-reading and pre-work required before June. Your leaders will reach out to you some time after registration with additional details. \nThere will be no A/V equipment available in this workshop. The workshop leaders encourage participants to bring charged devices with their preferred hardware and software pre-loaded\, especially for any participants who have accessibility needs. You should indicate any accessibility needs on your registration form.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/workshop-10-rhetoric-and-mindfulness/
LOCATION:Galt House Hotel\, 140 N. Fourth Street\, Louisville\, KY\, 40202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Institute
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SUMMARY:Workshop 11: Archaeological Rhetoric: Finding the Lost Treasures of Our Discipline
DESCRIPTION:Leaders: Robert Lively (Truckee Meadows Community College) and Richard L. Enos (Texas Christian University) \nArchaeological Rhetoric proposes to offer an RSA Summer Workshop that\nintroduces participants to the procedural and methodological practices of engaging\nin research in the history of rhetoric that discovers and analyzes material evidence.\nDrawing and adapting research objectives of archaeological research\, this workshop\nis oriented toward the discovery and analysis of material evidence that provides a\nfuller and richer context that expands our knowledge of the range\, and the research\nprocedures\, of the history of our discipline. The history of rhetoric is best\nunderstood not as a hierarchy with Greco-Roman rhetoric as the pinnacle\, but\nrather as occurring as a spectrum across time and culture. The research procedures\nand practices provided in this Workshop are intended to assist participants in\nproviding evidence of the kairos or cultural climate of rhetorics through the\ndiscovery and explication of material artifacts. This Summer Workshop not only\ntreats this process but seeks to implement them by requiring each participant to\nengage in a specific research project; this project may be new or ongoing and is\nintended to provide a concrete example of applying such research. Our intent is to\nhave the papers that come from our Workshop eventually become chapters of a book.\nShould such a book proposal be accepted for publication\, all proceeds will be\ndonated to the RSA General Fund so that future members joining RSA will have\nthe opportunity to participate in RSA Conferences and Summer Institutes. \nNote from the organizers:\nAs per previous workshops\, there may be pre-reading and pre-work required before June. Your leaders will reach out to you some time after registration with additional details. \nThere will be no A/V equipment available in this workshop. The workshop leaders encourage participants to bring charged devices with their preferred hardware and software pre-loaded\, especially for any participants who have accessibility needs. You should indicate any accessibility needs on your registration form.
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/workshop-11-archaeological-rhetoric-finding-the-lost-treasures-of-our-discipline/
LOCATION:Galt House Hotel\, 140 N. Fourth Street\, Louisville\, KY\, 40202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Institute
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20280528T170000
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SUMMARY:RSA 2028 Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 23rd RSA Biennial Conference will be held May 25 – 28\, 2028 in Baltimore\, Maryland at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. \nStay tuned for the Call for Papers\, coming in 2027!
URL:https://rhetoricsociety.org/event/2028-conference/
LOCATION:Baltimore Marriott Waterfront\, 700 Aliceanna St\, Baltimore\, Maryland\, 21202
CATEGORIES:Conference
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