08/02/2010

RSQ invites proposals for the 2012 special fifth issue

The fifth issue will be a themed publication developed by a Guest Editor or Editors, with the aim of enabling the journal to help set the intellectual agenda in rhetorical studies, to encourage focused statements on timely topics in rhetorical studies by scholars working in related areas, to attract participation by top scholars, and to stimulate scholarly activity within the RSA, such as pre-conference colloquia, convention sessions, or RSA workshops.

07/19/2010

RSA Announces Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

The RSA Board is pleased to announce its recent approval of funding to support activities that contribute to the professional and scholarly development of graduate students. RSA graduate students and student chapters may now submit applications. There are two categories of funding: Annual Funding for Student Chapters and Special Event Funding for Student Chapters or Graduate Students ...

07/17/2010

International Conference on the Liberal Arts:

07/08/2010

JASINSKI APPOINTED NEXT EDITOR OF RSQ

James Jasinski, Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Puget Sound and outgoing department chair, has been named editor-elect of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. His appointment was announced during the RSA conference in Minneapolis.

06/25/2010

Top Ten Downloaded RSQ Articles in 2009

Taylor & Francis, publisher of Rhetoric Society Quarterly, now provides RSA with data from its Informaworld™ online platform, which offers RSQ in electronic form to institutional and individual subscribers. Data collected on Informaworld includes uses from certain other gateways, such as Ingenta (but not EBSCO).

06/03/2010

ACLS Announces Results of 2009-10 Fellowship Competition

ACLS is pleased to announce the results of its 2009-10 fellowship competitions. Over $15 million was awarded to more than 380 scholars, both U.S.-based and international. This represents an increase of nearly 50% over last year's total of $10.2 million. Information on the 2010 fellows, including abstracts of their proposals, is posted on the ACLS website at www.acls.org/fellows/new .

06/02/2010

Call For Proposals: Local Site Coordinator/s

Fifth Biennial Institute, 2013

The Rhetoric Society of America seeks nominations and self-nominations to serve as Local Site Coordinator/s for the Fifth Biennial Institute, to occur in the summer of 2013.

05/24/2010

RSA Announces 2010 Award Recipients

The Rhetoric Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2010 awards. The Awards Committee, chaired by Cinthia Gannett, has selected, and the Board of Directors has approved, the recipients of the George Yoos Distinguished Service Award, RSA Fellows, the Book Award, and the Dissertation Award.

05/07/2010

National Humanities Center

Fellowships 2011-2012

05/03/2010

Association for Rhetoric of Science and Technology

Annual Seminar - November 13, 2010

04/26/2010

International Conference on the Liberal Arts

Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2010

04/14/2010

College Conference on Composition and Communication Workshop

New Webs of Relationships: International Dialogue about Higher Education Writing Research

We are inviting 1-paragraph proposals for up to twelve facilitator roles in a College Conference on Composition and Communication (CCCC) workshop focused on research about writing in higher education outside of the U.S. The workshop will be titled: New Webs of Relationships: International Dialogue about Higher Education Writing Research.

04/08/2010

Gerard A. Hauser Graduate Scholarships

RSA 2010

03/17/2010

RSA - Hotel Help is on the Way!

This bulletin just in: RSA has signed a contract for additional rooms at a hotel near the Marriott for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights (with a good rate for Sunday night outside our contracted rooms). We'll let you know specifics in a few days, when the hotel has had a chance to get its rates set for us and is ready to receive reservations.

03/08/2010

Call for papers - Rhetoric in Society III

January 26 - 28 2011

Department of Applied Language Studies Lessius University College Antwerpen Keynote Speakers: Gunther Kress Christopher W. Tindale Jef Verschueren

02/18/2010

Rhetoric of Science & Technology

RSA Preconference 2010

The Association for the Rhetoric of Science & Technology (ARST) is excited to hold a preconference in conjunction with the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) meetings in Minneapolis. We'll be holding several ARST sessions the morning of May 28.

02/11/2010

Call for Nominations for the 2010 RSA Book Awards

Please consider nominating a book (your own or a colleague's) for the 2010 RSA Book Award. Nominations are due by February 28, 2010 for books published in 2009!

02/05/2010

RSA - Mike Leff

Our beloved colleague and RSA President Mike Leff passed away this morning at 8:37 am in Memphis' Baptist Hospital after an all too brief battle with a virulent cancer. He was supported by his Memphis colleagues and surrounded by his partner, his son, and his sister. RSA members will receive further information shortly.

01/01/2010

RSA - New Year's Greetings

11/30/2009

RSQ to Publish Special Issue Series

Debra Hawhee Named Associate Editor for Special Issues

The RSA Board of Directors and Rhetoric Society Quarterly are pleased to announce a new publishing program beginning in 2010, an annual special issue of the journal in addition to the four regular issues. The special issues will be themed, guest-edited issues with an editorial process separate from the regular submissions.

10/22/2009

RSA 2009 Election Results

In the recent biennial election, RSA members elected seven persons to the Board of Directors.

04/21/2009

New Developments Emerge from RSA Board Meeting

12/08/2008

RSA Constitutional Changes Approved

The results of the recent election to permit two changes to the RSA bylaws are in. Both measures passed: we will now be electing a second graduate student to serve on the Board; and we will be selecting a President-Elect from a somewhat more expansive list of possibilities that include not just current members of the Board but past ones as well.

11/17/2008

12th Biennial Public Address Conference

University of Pittsburgh ... Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2010

The Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh will be hosting the 12th Biennial Public Address Conference in Pittsburgh, PA on Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2010. The theme of the conference is Human Rights Rhetoric: Controversies, Conundrums, and Community Actions.