Institutes

 RSA's Third Biennial Summer Institute
June 22-28, 2009
Penn State University

For complete information about the 2009 Institute Seminars and Workshops, please go to the Penn State website: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/rsa/ 

Seminar Participants Schedule

Workshop Participants Schedule

Shawn Parry-Giles and David Kaufer
Program Organizers

Running from 22-28 June 2009, the Institute again includes two components: two five-day Seminars (running Monday, 6/22, through Friday morning, 6/26); and nineteen two-day Workshops (running Friday afternoon, 6/26, through Sunday morning, 6/28). Participants may choose to attend either a seminar or a workshop or both.  At lunch on Friday, there will be a plenary talk by Stephen Browne, scheduled to accommodate both seminarians and workshoppers, and some meals and receptions are (tentatively) included in the fee.

Seminars are focused on offering graduate students and early career professors advanced study in foundational areas of rhetoric for purposes of pedagogy and research. Workshops are targeted to professors as well as graduate students and function as "special-interest" groups within subfields of rhetoric; they are meant to cover common topics of interest within those subfields and provide an opportunity for scholars to gather to address significant issues related to their research program and teaching specializations.

The two five-day Seminars offered in 2009 will focus on Rhetorical Criticism, led by Michael Leff (University of Memphis), Alisse Portnoy (University of Michigan), Steve Mailloux (University of California, Irvine) and Ruth Amossy (University of Tel Aviv); and Visual Rhetoric: Photojournalism and Public Culture, led by Robert Hariman (Northwestern University) and John Lucaites (Indiana University). Each of these seminars has a capacity of 25 participants.

The two-day Workshops, which typically enroll between five and eighteen participants, depending on the topic, cover a rich range of rhetorical subfields.  In 2009, the Institute has tentatively arranged to offer the following workshops:

  1. Rhetoric,Nationalism,and Post-Nationalism - Vanessa Beasley (Vanderbilt U)
  2. Women,Religious Persuasion and Social Activism in America 1780-1940 - Patricia Bizzell (College of Holy Cross), Jane Donawerth (U of Maryland), Shirley Wilson Logan (U of Maryland), and Roxanne Mountford (U of Kentucky)
  3. Women,Rhetoric,and Political Agency: What Do Women Need to Know About Their History in Order - Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (U of Minnesota), Mari Boor Tonn (U of Maryland), and Justin Killian (U of Minnesota)
  4. Performance and the Rhetorical Tradition - Suresh Canagarajah (Penn State U), Maria Jerskey (La Guardia College), Jay Jordan (U of Utah), and Xiaoye You (Penn State U)
  5. Performance and the Rhetorical Tradition - Jenn Fishman (U of Tennessee-Knoxville) and Jeremy Wear (U of Tennessee-Knoxville)
  6. Career Retreat for Associate Professors - Cheryl Geisler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), S. Michael Halloran, (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), and Krista Ratcliffe, (Marquette U)
  7. Rhetoric and Race - Keith Gilyard (Penn State U), Kevin A. Browne (Penn State U), and Ersula J. Ore (Penn State U)
  8. Visualizing Patterns of Group Communication in Digital Workspaces - William Hart-Davidson (Michigan State U), Clay Spinuzzi, (U of Texas), and Mark Zachry (U of Washington)
  9. History Matters: Materials and Methods for Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric - Debra Hawhee (U of Illinois) and Richard Graff (U of Minnesota)
  10. Rhetoric and the Sacred in the 21st Century - Robert Glenn Howard (U of Wisconsin-Madison) and Susan Zaeske (U of Wisconsin-Madison).
  11. Discourse Analysis for Rhetorical Studies - Barbara Johnstone (Carnegie Mellon U) and Christopher Eisenhart (U Massachusetts Dartmouth)
  12. Queering Rhetorical Studies - Charles E. Morris III (Boston College), Isaac West (U of Iowa), and Karma Chavez (U of New Mexico)
  13. Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project - Shawn J. Parry-Giles (U of Maryland), J. Michael Hogan (Penn State U), and Robert N. Gaines (U of Maryland)
  14. Globalization and Rhetoric - Andreea Ritivoi (Carnegie Mellon U) and David Frank (U of Oregon)
  15. Understanding Kenneth Burke through His Archives - Jack Selzer (Penn State U), Ann George (Texas Christian U), and David Tell (U of Kansas)
  16. Rhetoric,Public Memory,and Forgetting - Bradford Vivian (Syracuse U) and Carole Blair (North Carolina U)
  17. Medical Rhetoric: Ethical Issues - Susan Wells (Temple U) and Ellen Barton (Wayne State U)
  18. Science and Its Publics - James Wynn (Carnegie Mellon U) and Lisa Keranen (U of Colorado)
  19. Reading Lincoln's Rhetoric - David Zarefsky (Northwestern U)

This list is final but you should check the RSA website regularly for unexpected changes and updates.

Program Organizers:

Shawn Parry-Giles
University of Maryland
Co-Planner, RSA 2009 Institute

David Kaufer
Carnegie Mellon
Co-Planner, RSA 2009 Institute

Jeremy Engels
Penn State University
Local Arrangements Chair