RSA Institute Archives

Seminar 1: Indigenous Rhetorics: Clearing a Path for Meaningful, Responsible, Relational Practice

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Seminar 2: Ecological Feelings - Feeling Ecological: Dwelling in the Anthropocenic Moment

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Seminar 3: Collaging Trans Rhetorics

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Seminar 4: Rhetoric in Dark Times

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Seminar 5: Rhetoric, Culture, and Technology

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Seminar 6: Fugitive Planning and White Knowledge Disruption: Building an Alternative Space for Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture

Primarily Asynchronous (May 24-June 4)

Seminar 7: The Question of Decoloniality

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Seminar 8: Rhetorical Ethics in an Unjust World

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Workshop 1: Medical Ableism

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 10: Precarity and Visual Praxis: Collectivity, Circulation, Legibility, and Form

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 11: Religious Rhetorics of Resistance

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 12: Rétorica y Memoria en America Latina/Rhetoric & Memory in Latin America

Half Synchronous and Half Asynchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 13: Rhetoric and Sexual Violence

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 14: Cultural Politics & Activism

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 15: Making a Career in Rhetorical Studies

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 16: Bordering Rhetorics: Mobility, Containment, & the Boundaries of Critical Rhetoric

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 17: Race, Regionalism, and Rhetoric

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 18: From Grassroots to Institutions: The Murky Politics of Transnational Advocacy

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 19: Histories of Rhetoric Elsewhere and Otherwise

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 2: Rhetorics of Risk and Public Health

Primarily Asynchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 20: Rhetoric and Life Writing

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 21: Digital Exclusions

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 22: Arguing Argument

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 23: Mediated Rhetorics of Crisis and Renewal

Primarily Asynchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 23: Writing New Histories of U.S. Presidential Rhetoric & Foreign Policy

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 24: The Futures of New Materialism

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 25: Pandemic Rhetorics

Primarily Asynchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 3: Ethics and Representation in Documentary Filmmaking

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 4: Racialized Masculinities in Sexual Worlds

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 5: The Trouble with Publics and Counterpublics

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 6: Legal Rhetorics

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 7: Archival Power

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 8: The 2020 Campaign and Its Aftermath: Presidentiality and Peril

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 9: Engaging Critical Horizons of 21st-Century Feminisms and Rhetorical Studies

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop 25: Citizen Science and Emerging Rhetorics of Science

Workshop Leaders: James Wynn and Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher

Workshop 24: Neurorhetorics’ Materialities

Workshop Leaders: Christa Teston and Michelle Gibbons

Workshop 23: The Public Humanities

Workshop Leaders: Dave Tell and Trevor Parry-Giles

Workshop 22: Deliberation and Its Discontents: Prospects for Argumentation, Dissent, and Critical Engagement in Post-Factual, Post-Deliberative Times

Workshop Leaders: Lisa Storm Villadsen and Christian Erik J Kock

Workshop 21: Rethinking Religious Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Jeff Ringer and Paul Lynch

Workshop 20: Designing and Delivering Rhetorical Education

Workshop Leaders: Kris Ratcliffe and Kyle Jensen

Workshop 19: Practicing Cultural Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Malea Powell and Trixie Long-Smith

Workshop 18: Whither Ethos?: From the Human to the Nonhuman, the Inhuman, and Beyond

Workshop Leaders Carolyn R. Miller and Peter Simonson

Workshop 17: Dealing with Data: Designing Computational Approaches to Rhetorical Inquiry

Workshop Leaders: Amanda Licastro and Daniel Faltesek

Workshop 16: Rhetorics of Sport and Protest

Workshop Leaders: Abraham Khan and Kyle King

Workshop 15: Doing Classical Reception in Rhetorical Studies

Workshop Leaders: Michele Kennerly and Lois Agnew

Workshop 14: Queer(s in) Publics

Workshop Leaders: Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes

Workshop 13: Writing Sensory Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Debra Hawhee and Steph Ceraso

Workshop 12: Revealing the ductwork of rhetorical historiography

Workshop Leaders: David Gold and Candace Epps-Robertson

Workshop 11: Rhetoric, Migration, & Mobility

Workshop Leaders: Lisa Flores and Leslie Harris

Workshop 10: Advancing Undergraduate Research in Rhetorical Studies

Workshop Leaders: Jenn Fishman and Maegan Parker Brooks

Workshop 9: Rhetorical Style

Workshop Leaders: Jeanne Fahnestock and Martin Camper

Workshop 8: After the New Materialisms: Emerging Theories of Meaning and Mattering

Workshop Leaders: Diane Davis and Thomas Rickert

Workshop 7: Crip Is a Verb

Workshop Leaders: Christina Cedillo and Melanie Yergeau

Workshop 6: Posthuman Rhetorics on a Precarious Planet

Workshop Leaders: Casey Boyle, Amy Propen, and Nathaniel Rivers

Workshop 5: Making a Career in Rhetoric Studies

Workshop Leaders: Denise Bostdorff and Stephanie Kerschbaum

Workshop 4: Rhetorics of Motherhood

Workshop Leaders: Jennifer Borda and Sara Hayden

Workshop 3: Neoliberalism and Rhetorical Scholarship: Definitions, Uses, Implications

Workshop Leaders: Rob Asen and Rebecca Dingo

Workshop 2: Foodways Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Steven Alvarez and Casey Kelly

Workshop 1: Rhetoric, Publics, and Placemaking in Everyday Life

Workshop Leaders: John Ackerman, Greg Dickinson, and Candice Rai

Seminar 8: Emerging Lines of Inquiry in the New Generation of Memory Studies Scholarship

Seminar Leaders: Bradford Vivian and Katherine Mack

Seminar 7: Code Switching: Race and Digital Rhetoric

Seminar Leaders: Catherine Knight Steele and Jim Brown

Seminar 6: The Politics and Practices of Archival Research

Seminar Leaders: Belinda A. Stillion Southard and Ersula Ore

Seminar 5: Visual Rhetoric, Moving Bodies, Affective Transmission: Ancient, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives

Seminar Leaders: David Marshall, Caitlin Bruce, and Ruth Webb

Seminar 4: Medical Rhetoric in the Archives

Seminar Leaders: Jordynn Jackand Robin E. Jensen

Seminar 2: At the Intersection of Rhetorics and Feminisms

Seminar Leaders: Cheryl Glenn and Karma Chávez

Seminar 1: #WhyWeCantWait: African American Rhetorical and Pedagogical Traditions for Social Justice

Seminar Leaders: Tamika Carey and Elaine Richardson

Seminar 3: Becoming Human in Anti-Racist Social Protest in Digital and Embodied Publics

Seminar Leaders: Kristan Poirot and Armond R. Towns

From Dissertation to Book

Workshop Leaders: Jeff Bennett, Vanderbilt University; Isaac West, Vanderbilt University

Academic Publishing in Rhetorical Studies

Workshop Leaders: Barbara Biesecker, University of Georgia; Susan C. Jarratt, University of California

Writing (Rhetorical) Histories

Workshop Leaders: Jessica Enoch, University of Maryland; Cheryl Glenn, Penn State University

Textual Criticism

Workshop Leader: Jim Jasinski, University of Puget Sound

Sonic Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Byron Hawk, University of South Carolina; Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine

Rhetoric/Violence

Workshop Leaders: Nathan Stormer, University of Maine; Davi Thornton, Southwestern University

Rhetoric, Sport, and the Political

Workshop Leaders: Michael L. Butterworth, Ohio University; Daniel A. Grano, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Rhetorics of Scientific Objects

Workshop Leaders: John Lynch, University of Cincinnati; Lisa DeTora, Hofstra University

Rhetoric and Desire

Workshop Leader: James Kastely, University of Houston

Rhetoric and Civic Life: A Case Study in Integrated Communication

Workshop Leader: Debra Hawhee, Pennsylvania State University

Rhetorical Archives/Archival Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Jenell Johnson, University of Wisconsin; Christa Olson, University of Wisconsin

The Rest of the World: Recognizing Non-Western Rhetorical Traditions

Workshop Leaders: Arabella Lyon, University of Buffalo, SUNY; Lu Ming Mao, Miami University

Moving Pictures: Cinematic Rhetoric and Social Movement

Workshop Leaders: Kristen Hoerl, Butler University; Claire Sisco King, Vanderbilt University

Invention and (Post/Anti/Trans/Non)Humanism

Workshop Leaders: John Muckelbauer, University of South Carolina; Kendall Phillips, Syracuse University

Humor, Play, and Rhetoric

Workshop Leader: Jonathan P. Rossing, Gonzaga University

Environmental Rhetoric in a Material World

Workshop Leaders: Bridie McGreavy, University of Maine; Stephen Depoe, University of Cincinnati

Doing Law and Rhetoric

Workshop Leaders: Peter Campbell, University of Pittsburgh; Anjali Vats, Boston College

Disability at the Intersections

Workshop Leaders:Amy Vidali, University of Colorado, Denver; Stephanie Kerschbaum, University of Delaware

Decolonizing Rhetoric for the 21st Century

Workshop Leaders:Aimee Carrillo Rowe, California State University Northridge; Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, University of Iowa

Computational Rhetoric: Exploring Possibilities, Limits, & Applications

Workshop Leaders: William Hart-Davidson, Michigan State University; Ryan Omizo, University of Rhode Island


Argumentation Theory, Research, and Pedagogy

Workshop Leader: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University

Animal Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders:Alex C. Parrish, James Madison University Emily Plec, Western Oregon University

Seminar 8: Queer Archival Immersion: Rhetoric, Performance, Pedagogy, and Politics at the Kinsey Institute

Seminar Leaders: E. Cram, University of Iowa; Charles Morris, Syracuse University; Eric Darnell Pritchard, University of Illinois; K.J. Rawson, College of the Holy Cross; Jennifer Tyburczy, University of California, Santa Barbara

Seminar 7: The “Rhetorical Presidency” in the Post-Cold War Era

Seminar Leaders: John Murphy, University of Illinois;Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University

Seminar 6: In/Visible Bodies, Vulnerabilities, and Human Rights

Seminar Leaders: Wendy Hesford, Ohio State University; Wendy Kozol, Oberlin College

Seminar 5: (Re)signing the Racial Contract: Black Rhetoric and the Politics of Racial Resistance and Redemption

Seminar Leaders: Mark McPhail, Indiana University, Northwest; Keith Miller, Arizona State University

Seminar 4: The Rhetorical Spaces of Memory: Memorials, Cities, and Civic Life

Seminar Leaders: Carole Blair, University of North Carolina; Carole Blair, University of North Carolina Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University

Seminar 3: Digital Rhetoric Behind & Beyond the Screen

Seminar Leaders: Jim Brown, Rutgers University-Camde; Casey Boyle, University of Texas at Austin; Steph Ceraso, University of Virginia

Seminar 2: Rhetoric and the New Materialisms

Seminar Leaders: Diane Davis, University of Texas at Austin; Thomas Rickert, Purdue University

Seminar 1: Rhetoric’s Affect/Affect’s Rhetoric

Seminar Leaders: Josh Gunn, University of Texas; Jenny Rice, University of Kentucky

Grant and Development Opportunities in Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Studies

Workshop Leader: J. Michael Hogan, Penn State University

Building Sophware:
Modeling Theoretical Approaches to Technical and Professional Writing with Computational Methods


Workshop Leaders: Bill Hart-Davidson, Michigan State University;
 Ryan Omizo, University of Rhode Island



Academic Publishing in Rhetorical Studies or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sending Manuscripts Out for Review (with apologies to Stanley Kubrick)

Workshop Leader: Jim Jasinski, University of Puget Sound

Transgendering Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Isaac West, University of Iowa; KJ Rawson, College of the Holy Cross

Rhetoric, Spatial Theory, and the Built Environment

Workshop Leaders: Dave Tell, The University of Kansas; Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University

Political Communication and Campaigns

Workshop Leader: Mary E. Stuckey, Georgia State University

“Subalternity” and “Transnational Literacy”: The Significance of Gayatri Spivak’s Scholarship for Rhetoric and Communication Studies

Workshop Leader: Raka Shome, New York

Theory Building in the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

Workshop Leaders: Blake Scott, University of Central Florida; Jeff Bennett, University of Iowa; Jenell Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Global Citizenship

Workshop Leader: Jacqueline Jones Royster, Georgia Institute of Technology

Rhetoric, Secrecy, and Surveillance

Workshop Leaders: Robert C. Rowland, The University of Kansas; David Frank, The University of Oregon

New Materialist Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Thomas Rickert, Purdue University; Byron Hawk, University of South Carolina

Crafting Multimodal Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Jason Palmeri, Miami University; Ben McCorkle, Ohio State University

Expanding the Idea of Américan Rhetoric

Workshop Leaders: Christa Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Rene De Los Santos

Whither “Social Movement” in Rhetorical Studies?

Workshop Leaders: Christina R. Foust, University of Denver; Charles E. Morris III, Syracuse University

Rhetoric and Religion

Workshop Leader: Martin Medhurst, Baylor University

Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

Workshop Leader: Richard Marback, Wayne State University

Rhetoric and Economics

Workshop Leader: Mark Longaker, University of Texas at Austin

Neurorhetorics: Thinking Together About the Persuasive Brain

Workshop Leaders: Jordynn Jack, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; David Gruber, City University of Hong Kong

Organizing Discourse: Reading and Writing Institutional Histories of Rhetoric

Workshop Leaders: David Fleming, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Amy Wan, Queens College, CUNY

Rhetoric and Indigeneity

Workshop Leader: Ellen Cushman, Michigan State University

Reality as a Rhetorical Problem

Workshop Leader: Dana L. Cloud, University of Texas, Austin

Rhetoric’s Algorithms

Workshop Leaders: Jim Brown, Rutgers University, Camden; Annette Vee, University of Pittsburgh

Rhetorics & Networks

Workshop Leader: Collin Gifford Brooke, Syracuse University

Transnational Rhetorical Research

Seminar leaders: Rebecca Dingo, University of Missouri; Sara McKinnon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Working the Field: Rhetorical Studies and Ethnographic Methods

Seminar leaders: Ralph Cintron, University of Illinois at Chicago; S. Scott Graham, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Gerard Hauser, University of Colorado, Boulder; Candice Rai, University of Washington, Seattle

Rhetoric and Race

Seminar leaders: Kent Ono, University of Utah

Rhetoric and Sensation

Seminar leaders: Debra Hawhee, Penn State University; Vanessa Beasley, Vanderbilt University

Rhetorics of Citizenship

Seminar leaders: Catherine H. Palczewski, University of Northern Iowa; Karma R. Chávez, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“The War of Words,” A Rhetoric of Motives, and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

Seminar leaders: Jack Selzer, Penn State University; Kyle Jensen, University of North Texas; Krista Ratcliffe, Marquette University

Rhetoric and Science

Seminar leaders: Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington; Carolyn R. Miller, North Carolina State University

Apogee of the Civil Rights Movement

Workshop Leader: Kirt H. Wilson, Penn State University

Visual Rhetorics of Violence: Cultural Trauma and Visual Representation

Workshop Leaders: A. Susan Owen, University of Puget Sound; Peter Ehrenhaus, Pacific Lutheran University

Shifting the Paradigm: Towards a Translingual Rhetoric of Writing

Leaders: Suresh Canagarajah, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, Penn State University; Maria Jerskey, Associate Professor, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY; Dorothy Worden, Writing Instructor, Penn State University

The Rhetorics of Disability

Workshop Leaders: Rachel Adams, Columbia University; Michael Berube, Penn State University

The Ends of Words: Mystic Practice and Rhetorical Limit Experience

Workshop Leader: Richard Doyle, Penn State University

Sound Studies And Rhetoric

Workshop Leaders: Joshua Gunn, University of Texas at Austin; Greg Goodale, Northeastern University; Mirko M. Hall, Converse College

Rogue Publics in a Digital Age

Leaders: G. Thomas Goodnight, University of Southern California; David B. Hingstman, University of Iowa

Is a Rhetorical Ethics Possible?

Workshop Leaders: Frank Farmer, University of Kansas; Margaret Zulick, Wake Forest University

Rhetoric Memory Archive Museum

Workshop Leader: Michael Bernard--Donals, University of Wisconsin--Madison

Rhetoric and Public Policy

Workshop Leader: Robert Asen

Rhetoric and Its Temporalities

Leaders: Michelle Ballif, The University of Georgia; Megan Foley, Mississippi State University

Rethinking the Relationship between Rhetoric and Democracy

Workshop Leaders: Jeremy Engels, Penn State University: Pat Gehrke, University of South Carolina

Religion and American Public Argument

Workshop Leader: John M. Murphy, University of Illinois

Reframing Documentary in the Age of Social Media

Workshop Leaders: Anne T. Demo, Syracuse Universit; Cara A. Finnegan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Queer Activism

Workshop Leaders: Jeff Bennett, University of Iowa; Erin Rand, Syracuse University

Places of Invention: Topoi, Media, Locales

Workshop Leaders: John Ackerman, Peter Simonson

Materialist and Object-Oriented Rhetorics

Workshop Leader: Thomas Rickert, Purdue University; Byron Hawk, University of South Carolina

Placemaking: Rhetorical Studies and Critical Geography

Workshop Leaders: Jenny Rice, University of Kentucky; Doug Reichert Powell, Columbia College

Building a Career in Rhetorical Studies

Workshop Leaders: Bonnie J. Dow, Vanderbilt University; Jessica Enoch, University of Maryland

Biopolitics and Bioethics

Workshop Leaders: Stuart J. Murray, Carleton University; Twyla Gibson, University of Missouri

Rhetorical approaches to the 2012 presidential campaign

Seminar Leaders: Vanessa Beasley, Vanderbilt University; Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland

Rhetoric in/between Communication and English

Seminar Leaders:William Keith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Roxanne Mountford, University of Kentucky

Historiography and the Archives: Taking the Next Steps

Seminar Leaders: Susan C. Jarratt, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine; Susan Romano, English, University of New Mexico; David Gold, English, University of Michigan; Davis W. Houck, College of Communication and Information, Florida State University

Comparative Rhetoric: Enacting the Art of Recontextualization

Leaders: LuMing Mao, Miami University; Arabella Lyon, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Argumentation

Seminar leaders: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University; Robert C. Rowland, University of Kansas; Jean Goodwin, Iowa State University; Jeanne Fahnestock, University of Maryland; Frans H. van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam

Rhetoric in the Schools—A Seminar for Denver Metro and Boulder High School Teachers

Leaders: Roger Cherry, Ohio State University; David Jolliffe, University of Arkansas

Digital Humanities and the History of Rhetoric

Leaders: Ned O’Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ekatrina Haskins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kassie Lamp, Arizona State University

Communicating Science to 21st Century Audiences

Leader: Alan G. Gross, University of Minnesota

Rhetoric’s Critical Genealogies

Leaders: Jim Jasinski, University of Puget Sound; Vanessa Beasley, Vanderbilt University; Chuck Morris, Boston College; Kirt Wilson, Pennsylvania State University

Composing Multimodal Rhetorics

Leaders: Anne Frances Wysocki, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Dennis A. Lynch, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

2011 RSA Career Retreat for Associate Professors

Leaders: Cheryl Geisler, Simon Fraser University; Patricia Roberts-Miller, University of Texas at Austin

Rhetorical Leadership

Leaders: David Kaufer, Carnegie Mellon University; Ron Placone, Carnegie Mellon University; Gregory Clark, Brigham Young University

Technological Rhetorics

Leaders: Jordynn Jack, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Jeremiah Dyehouse, University of Rhode Island

Latin American and Latina/o Rhetoric

Leaders: Lisa Flores, University of Colorado at Boulder; Damian Baca, University of Arizona

Rhetoric, Difference and Practical Criticism

Leader: Lester Olson, University of Pittsburgh

Going Deep with The New Rhetoric

Leaders: Linda Bensel-Meyers, University of Denver; James Crosswhite, University of Oregon; David Frank, University of Oregon; John Gage, University of Oregon

“Free” Speech and the Production of Truth in Histories of Rhetoric

Leaders: Susan C. Jarratt, University of California at Irvine; Katherine Mack, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Critical Discourse Analysis

Leaders: Tom Huckin, University of Utah; Jenny Andrus, University of Utah

Emerging Genres

Leaders: Carolyn R. Miller, North Carolina State University; Victoria Gallagher, North Carolina State University

Medicine and Its Publics

Leaders: Lisa Keränen, University of Colorado at Denver; J. Blake Scott, University of Central Florida

The Local Public Sphere: Deliberation and Community Engagement

Leaders: Linda Flower, Carnegie Mellon University; Elenore Long, Arizona State University

Nonrational Rhetorics

Leaders: Debra Hawhee, Pennsylvania State University; Diane Davis, University of Texas at Austin

Science, Controversy, Policy

Leader: Jean Goodwin, Iowa State University

Remembering as Citizens: Rhetoric, Memory, and Citizenship

Leaders: Bradford Vivian, Syracuse University; Carole Blair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Klal Rhetorica: Jewish Rhetorical Traditions

Leaders: Janice W. Fernheimer, University of Kentucky; David Metzger, Old Dominion University

The Intersections of Rhetoric and Ethnography

Leaders: Ralph Cintron, University of Illinois at Chicago; Phaedra Pezzullo, Indiana University; Candice Rai, University of Washington at Seattle

Communication and Social Justice in an Age of Globalization

Leader: Stephen John Hartnett, University of Colorado at Denver

The Possibility and Limits of Human Rights Discourse

Leaders: Gerard Hauser, University of Colorado at Boulder; Erik Doxtader, University of South Carolina; Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (Cape Town)

Rhetoric’s Materiality

Leaders: Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University; Brian Ott, University of Colorado at Denver

Mass Communication in Rhetorical History

Leaders: Peter Simonson, University of Colorado at Boulder; Dave Tell, University of Kansas

Rhetorical Criticism: Theory And Practice

Leaders: Alisse Portnoy, Department of English, University of Michigan; Michael Leff, Department of Communication, University of Memphis; Steve Mailloux, Chancellor's Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Irvine; Ruth Amossy, H. Glaberg Chair of French Culture and Director of the Research Group, Analyse du Discours, Argumentation et Rhetorique, University of Tel Aviv

Visual Rhetoric: Photojournalism and Public Culture

Leaders: Robert Hariman, Northwestern University; John Lucaites, Indiana University

Rhetoric, Nationalism, and Post-Nationalism

Leader: Vanessa Beasley, Vanderbilt University

Women, Religious Persuasion and Social Activism in America 1780-1940

Leaders: Patricia Bizzell, College of Holy Cross; Jane Donawerth, University of Maryland; Shirley Wilson Logan, University of Maryland; Roxanne Mountford University of Kentucky

Women, Rhetoric, and Political Agency: What Do Women Need to Know About Their History in Order ...

Leaders: Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, University of Minnesota; Mari Boor Tonn, University of Maryland; Justin Killian, University of Minnesota

Toward a Rhetoric of Multilingual Writing

Leaders: Suresh Canagarajah, Penn State University; Maria Jerskey, La Guardia College; Jay Jordan, University of Utah; Xiaoye You, Penn State University

Performance and the Rhetorical Tradition

Leaders: Jenn Fishman, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Jeremy Wear, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Career Retreat for Associate Professors

Leaders: Cheryl Geisler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; S. Michael Halloran, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Krista Ratcliffe, Marquette University

Rhetoric and Race

Leaders: Keith Gilyard, Penn State University; Kevin A. Browne, Penn State University; Ersula J. Ore, Penn State University

Visualizing Patterns of Group Communication in Digital Workspaces

Leaders: William Hart-Davidson, Michigan State University; Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas; Mark Zachry, University of Washington

History Matters: Materials and Methods for Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric

Leaders: Debra Hawhee, University of Illinois; Richard Graff, University of Minnesota

Rhetoric and the Sacred in the 21st Century

Leaders: Robert Glenn Howard, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Susan Zaeske, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discourse Analysis for Rhetorical Studies

Leaders: Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University; Christopher Eisenhart, UMass Dartmouth

Queering Rhetorical Studies

Leaders: Charles E. Morris III, Boston College; Isaac West, University of Iowa; Karma Chavez (University of New Mexico)

Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project

Leaders: Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland; J. Michael Hogan, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Gaines, University of Maryland

Globalization and Rhetoric

Leaders: Andreea Ritivoi, Carnegie Mellon University; David Frank, University of Oregon

Understanding Kenneth Burke through His Archives

Leaders: Jack Selzer, Penn State University; Ann George, Texas Christian University; David Tell, University of Kansas

Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Forgetting

Leaders: Bradford Vivian, Syracuse University; Carole Blair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Medical Rhetoric: Ethical Issues, Archival Concepts, and Imaginative Writing

Leaders: Susan Wells, Temple University; Ellen Barton, Wayne State University

Science and Its Publics

Leaders: James Wynn, Carnegie Mellon University; Lisa Keranen, University of Colorado

Reading Lincoln's Rhetoric

Leader: David Zarefsky