rsa remote registration october 4

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.

RSA Remote: Rhetoricians Engaging the Public

Friday, October 4th, 2024

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Eastern time

This 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, among other subjects. Additionally, 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 15^th. Do consider attending especially if you’re thinking about applying to the seminar!

Panelists:

Jennifer 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/ 

Ryan 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.

Moderator: Matthew Pavesich, Johns Hopkins University 

For access information, please register below.  Zoom login information will be sent to your registered email Friday morning.