Reflections on the Inaugural RSA Project, Reno 2019

Reflections on the Inaugural RSA Project, Reno 2019

We call to the Society’s attention, as we do RSA’s digital Conference proceedings, the following publication, as a means of sharing the exciting work of our members on display at RSA events and to better familiarize you with the outcome of our inaugural Project.

The https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rroc20/current reflects on the Rhetoric Society of America's inaugural Project, which convened in Reno, Nevada in May 2019. Guest Editors Catherine Chaput, Amy Pason, and Lynda Olman explain how the "Project on Power, Place, and Publics" emerged from the recent turn toward rhetorical fieldwork and from an interest in alternative scholarly meetings. In an excerpt from his plenary address, John Ackerman considers how planning documents, such as campus master plans, further settler colonialism in the present moment. Project participants share excerpts from their time in Reno, describe the experience of undertaking fieldwork as part of an ad hoc collective, and discuss the challenges of public-facing scholarly conversations.