Leaders: Tammie M. Kennedy (University of Nebraska at Omaha) and Jessi Thomsen (Western Kentucky University) What becomes possible when we treat feminist rhetorical action not as a choice between small interventions and large-scale change, but as a both/and? In this workshop, participants will work as a community of thinkers and doers to explore that question […]

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) In an age of ubiquitous digital surveillance, the issue of privacy is paramount. While rhetorical scholarship has examined privacy thoroughly, including strong critiques and […]

Leaders: Amy Lueck (Santa Clara University) and Brice Nordquist (Syracuse University) Universities often struggle to connect community engagement, teaching, and research into sustained systems of impact. This session introduces Syracuse University’s Engaged Humanities Network (EHN) and the Ohlone Heritage Hub at Santa Clara University as scalable models for integrating community-engaged research, teaching, and creative work […]

Leaders: Jeremy Engels (Pennsylvania State University) Mindfulness has become incredibly popular in North America during the twenty-first century. How might this ancient practice, first developed by Buddhists in what is now northern India and southern Nepal over two millennia ago, speak to the concerns of rhetorical studies—and what can rhetorical scholars add to the contemporary […]

Leaders: Robert Lively (Truckee Meadows Community College) and Richard L. Enos (Texas Christian University) Archaeological Rhetoric proposes to offer an RSA Summer Workshop that introduces participants to the procedural and methodological practices of engaging in research in the history of rhetoric that discovers and analyzes material evidence. Drawing and adapting research objectives of archaeological research, […]