RSA Institute Archives

Below is a searchable list of the seminars and workshops of RSA Biennial Summer Institutes since the 3rd Institute in 2009. You can scroll down through the list or use the search box to search for specific terms.

9th Biennial Summer Institute 2021 - Syracuse, NY (Virtual)

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

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Workshop Leaders:Malea Powell, Michigan State University; Andrea Riley-Mukavetz, Grand Valley State University
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Seminar 2: Ecological Feelings - Feeling Ecological: Dwelling in the Anthropocenic Moment

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Workshop Leaders:Joshua Trey Barnett, Penn State University, University Park; Jennifer Clary-Lemon, University of Waterloo
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Seminar 3: Collaging Trans Rhetorics

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Workshop Leaders:Jo Hsu, University of Texas at Austin; Benny LeMaster, Arizona State University
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Seminar 4: Rhetoric in Dark Times

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Workshop Leaders:Patricia Roberts-Miller, The University of Texas at Austin; Ryan Skinnell, San José State University
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Seminar 5: Rhetoric, Culture, and Technology

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Workshop Leaders:Adam J. Banks, Stanford University; Damien Smith Pfister, University of Maryland
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Seminar 6: Fugitive Planning and White Knowledge Disruption: Building an Alternative Space for Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture

Primarily Asynchronous (May 24-June 4)

Workshop Leaders:Carmen Kynard, Texas Christian University; Bryan McCann, Louisiana State University
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Seminar 7: The Question of Decoloniality

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Workshop Leaders:José Manuel Cortez, University of Oregon; Romeo García, University of Utah; Jenna N. Hanchey, University of Nevada, Reno
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Seminar 8: Rhetorical Ethics in an Unjust World

Primarily Synchronous (May 24-May 28)

Workshop Leaders:Diane Davis, University of Texas at Austin; Nathan Stormer, University of Maine
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Workshop 1: Medical Ableism

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:James L. Cherney, University of Nevada-Reno; Jenell Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Workshop 10: Precarity and Visual Praxis: Collectivity, Circulation, Legibility, and Form

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Caitlin Bruce, University of Pittsburgh; Leslie Hahner, Baylor University
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Workshop 11: Religious Rhetorics of Resistance

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis; Kristy Maddux, University of Maryland
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Workshop 12: Rétorica y Memoria en America Latina/Rhetoric & Memory in Latin America

Half Synchronous and Half Asynchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Christa J. Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; María Alejandra Vitale, University of Buenos Aires
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Workshop 13: Rhetoric and Sexual Violence

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Annie Hill, University of Texas at Austin; Ashley Noel Mack, Louisiana State University
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Workshop 14: Cultural Politics & Activism

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Lisa Corrigan, University of Arkansas; Abraham Khan, Penn State University
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Workshop 15: Making a Career in Rhetorical Studies

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Denise Bostdorff, The College of Wooster; Stephanie Kerschbaum, University of Delaware
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Workshop 16: Bordering Rhetorics: Mobility, Containment, & the Boundaries of Critical Rhetoric

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:J. David Cisneros, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lisa Flores, University of Colorado Boulder; Michael Lechuga, University of New Mexico
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Workshop 17: Race, Regionalism, and Rhetoric

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Kundai Chirindo, Lewis & Clark College; Dave Tell, University of Kansas
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Workshop 18: From Grassroots to Institutions: The Murky Politics of Transnational Advocacy

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Rebecca Dingo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Shui-yin Sharon Yam, University of Kentucky
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Workshop 19: Histories of Rhetoric Elsewhere and Otherwise

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Damián Baca, University of Arizona; Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University
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Workshop 2: Rhetorics of Risk and Public Health

Primarily Asynchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Jeffrey Bennett, Vanderbilt University; Jordynn Jack, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Workshop 20: Rhetoric and Life Writing

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine; Katherine Mack, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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Workshop 21: Digital Exclusions

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Casey Boyle, University of Texas at Austin; Jim Brown, Rutgers University; Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Virginia Tech
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Workshop 22: Arguing Argument

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Catherine (Cate) H. Palczewski, University of Northern Iowa; Jenny Rice, University of Kentucky; Lisa Storm Villadsen, University of Copenhagen
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Workshop 23: Mediated Rhetorics of Crisis and Renewal

Primarily Asynchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Sarah Jackson, University of Pennsylvania; Claire Sisco King, Vanderbilt University; Marina Levina, University of Memphis
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Workshop 23: Writing New Histories of U.S. Presidential Rhetoric & Foreign Policy

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Allison M. Prasch, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mary E. Stuckey, Penn State University
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Workshop 24: The Futures of New Materialism

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Byron Hawk, University of South Carolina; Diane Marie Keeling, University of San Diego; Thomas Rickert, Purdue University
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Workshop 25: Pandemic Rhetorics

Primarily Asynchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders: Øyvind Ihlen, University of Oslo; Sine Nørholm Just, Roskilde University; Lisa Keränen, University of Colorado-Denver; Jens Elmelund Kjeldsen, University of Bergen; Lisa Melonçon, University of South Florida; Shaunak Sastry, University of Cincinnati; J. Blake Scott, University of Central Florida
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Workshop 3: Ethics and Representation in Documentary Filmmaking

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Angela J. Aguayo, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; ames Chase Sanchez, Middlebury College
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Workshop 4: Racialized Masculinities in Sexual Worlds

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Casey Kelly, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., Washington University
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Workshop 5: The Trouble with Publics and Counterpublics

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Robert Asen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Daniel C. Brouwer, Arizona State University
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Workshop 6: Legal Rhetorics

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Sarah Burgess, University of San Francisco; Isaac West, Vanderbilt University
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Workshop 7: Archival Power

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Jessica Enoch, University of Maryland; Pamela VanHaitsma, Penn State University
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Workshop 8: The 2020 Campaign and Its Aftermath: Presidentiality and Peril

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University; Vanessa B. Beasley, Vanderbilt University; Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland
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Workshop 9: Engaging Critical Horizons of 21st-Century Feminisms and Rhetorical Studies

Primarily Synchronous (June 1-4)

Workshop Leaders:Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, University of Iowa; Krista Ratcliffe, Arizona State University; Stacey Sowards, University of Texas at AustinM
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8th Biennial Summer Institute 2019 - College Park, MD

Workshop 25: Citizen Science and Emerging Rhetorics of Science

Workshop Leaders: James Wynn and Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher

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Workshop 24: Neurorhetorics’ Materialities

Workshop Leaders: Christa Teston and Michelle Gibbons

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Workshop 23: The Public Humanities

Workshop Leaders: Dave Tell and Trevor Parry-Giles

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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

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Workshop 21: Rethinking Religious Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Jeff Ringer and Paul Lynch

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Workshop 20: Designing and Delivering Rhetorical Education

Workshop Leaders: Kris Ratcliffe and Kyle Jensen

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Workshop 19: Practicing Cultural Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Malea Powell and Trixie Long-Smith

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

Workshop Leaders Carolyn R. Miller and Peter Simonson

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

Workshop Leaders: Amanda Licastro and Daniel Faltesek

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Workshop 16: Rhetorics of Sport and Protest

Workshop Leaders: Abraham Khan and Kyle King

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Workshop 15: Doing Classical Reception in Rhetorical Studies

Workshop Leaders: Michele Kennerly and Lois Agnew

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Workshop 14: Queer(s in) Publics

Workshop Leaders: Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes

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Workshop 13: Writing Sensory Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Debra Hawhee and Steph Ceraso

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Workshop 12: Revealing the ductwork of rhetorical historiography

Workshop Leaders: David Gold and Candace Epps-Robertson

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Workshop 11: Rhetoric, Migration, & Mobility

Workshop Leaders: Lisa Flores and Leslie Harris

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Workshop 10: Advancing Undergraduate Research in Rhetorical Studies

Workshop Leaders: Jenn Fishman and Maegan Parker Brooks

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Workshop 9: Rhetorical Style

Workshop Leaders: Jeanne Fahnestock and Martin Camper

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

Workshop Leaders: Diane Davis and Thomas Rickert

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Workshop 7: Crip Is a Verb

Workshop Leaders: Christina Cedillo and Melanie Yergeau

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Workshop 6: Posthuman Rhetorics on a Precarious Planet

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

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Workshop 5: Making a Career in Rhetoric Studies

Workshop Leaders: Denise Bostdorff and Stephanie Kerschbaum

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Workshop 4: Rhetorics of Motherhood

Workshop Leaders: Jennifer Borda and Sara Hayden

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

Workshop Leaders: Rob Asen and Rebecca Dingo

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Workshop 2: Foodways Rhetorics

Workshop Leaders: Steven Alvarez and Casey Kelly

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

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

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

Seminar Leaders: Bradford Vivian and Katherine Mack

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Seminar 7: Code Switching: Race and Digital Rhetoric

Seminar Leaders: Catherine Knight Steele and Jim Brown

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Seminar 6: The Politics and Practices of Archival Research

Seminar Leaders: Belinda A. Stillion Southard and Ersula Ore

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

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

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Seminar 4: Medical Rhetoric in the Archives

Seminar Leaders: Jordynn Jackand Robin E. Jensen

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Seminar 2: At the Intersection of Rhetorics and Feminisms

Seminar Leaders: Cheryl Glenn and Karma Chávez

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

Seminar Leaders: Tamika Carey and Elaine Richardson

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

Seminar Leaders: Kristan Poirot and Armond R. Towns

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7th Biennial Summer Institute 2017 - Bloomington, IN

From Dissertation to Book

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

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Academic Publishing in Rhetorical Studies

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

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Writing (Rhetorical) Histories

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

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Textual Criticism

Workshop Leader: Jim Jasinski, University of Puget Sound

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Sonic Rhetorics

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

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Rhetoric/Violence

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

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Rhetoric, Sport, and the Political

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

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Rhetorics of Scientific Objects

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

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Rhetoric and Desire

Workshop Leader: James Kastely, University of Houston

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Rhetoric and Civic Life: A Case Study in Integrated Communication

Workshop Leader: Debra Hawhee, Pennsylvania State University

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Rhetorical Archives/Archival Rhetorics

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

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

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

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Moving Pictures: Cinematic Rhetoric and Social Movement

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

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

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

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Humor, Play, and Rhetoric

Workshop Leader: Jonathan P. Rossing, Gonzaga University

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Environmental Rhetoric in a Material World

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

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Doing Law and Rhetoric

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

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Disability at the Intersections

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

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Decolonizing Rhetoric for the 21st Century

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

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Computational Rhetoric: Exploring Possibilities, Limits, & Applications

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


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Argumentation Theory, Research, and Pedagogy

Workshop Leader: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University

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Animal Rhetorics

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

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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


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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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Seminar 2: Rhetoric and the New Materialisms

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

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

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

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6th Biennial Summer Institute 2015 - Madison, WI

Grant and Development Opportunities in Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Studies

Workshop Leader: J. Michael Hogan, Penn State University

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


Workshop Leaders: Bill Hart-Davidson, Michigan State University;
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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

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Transgendering Rhetorics

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

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Rhetoric, Spatial Theory, and the Built Environment

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

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Political Communication and Campaigns

Workshop Leader: Mary E. Stuckey, Georgia State University

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

Workshop Leader: Raka Shome, New York

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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

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Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Global Citizenship

Workshop Leader: Jacqueline Jones Royster, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Rhetoric, Secrecy, and Surveillance

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

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New Materialist Rhetorics

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

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Crafting Multimodal Rhetorics

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

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Expanding the Idea of Américan Rhetoric

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

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Whither “Social Movement” in Rhetorical Studies?

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

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Rhetoric and Religion

Workshop Leader: Martin Medhurst, Baylor University

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Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

Workshop Leader: Richard Marback, Wayne State University

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Rhetoric and Economics

Workshop Leader: Mark Longaker, University of Texas at Austin

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Neurorhetorics: Thinking Together About the Persuasive Brain

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

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Organizing Discourse: Reading and Writing Institutional Histories of Rhetoric

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

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Rhetoric and Indigeneity

Workshop Leader: Ellen Cushman, Michigan State University

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Reality as a Rhetorical Problem

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

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Rhetoric’s Algorithms

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

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Rhetorics & Networks

Workshop Leader: Collin Gifford Brooke, Syracuse University

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Transnational Rhetorical Research

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

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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

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Rhetoric and Race

Seminar leaders: Kent Ono, University of Utah

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Rhetoric and Sensation

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

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Rhetorics of Citizenship

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

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“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

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Rhetoric and Science

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

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5th Biennial Summer Institute 2013 - Lawrence, KS

Apogee of the Civil Rights Movement

Workshop Leader: Kirt H. Wilson, Penn State University

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Visual Rhetorics of Violence: Cultural Trauma and Visual Representation

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

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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

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The Rhetorics of Disability

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

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The Ends of Words: Mystic Practice and Rhetorical Limit Experience

Workshop Leader: Richard Doyle, Penn State University

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Sound Studies And Rhetoric

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

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Rogue Publics in a Digital Age

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

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Is a Rhetorical Ethics Possible?

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

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Rhetoric Memory Archive Museum

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

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Rhetoric and Public Policy

Workshop Leader: Robert Asen

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Rhetoric and Its Temporalities

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

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Rethinking the Relationship between Rhetoric and Democracy

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

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Religion and American Public Argument

Workshop Leader: John M. Murphy, University of Illinois

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Reframing Documentary in the Age of Social Media

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

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Queer Activism

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

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Places of Invention: Topoi, Media, Locales

Workshop Leaders: John Ackerman, Peter Simonson

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Materialist and Object-Oriented Rhetorics

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

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Placemaking: Rhetorical Studies and Critical Geography

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

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Building a Career in Rhetorical Studies

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

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Biopolitics and Bioethics

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

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Rhetorical approaches to the 2012 presidential campaign

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

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Rhetoric in/between Communication and English

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

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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

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Comparative Rhetoric: Enacting the Art of Recontextualization

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

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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

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4th Biennial Summer Institute 2011 - Boulder, CO

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

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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

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Communicating Science to 21st Century Audiences

Leader: Alan G. Gross, University of Minnesota

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Rhetoric’s Critical Genealogies

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

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Composing Multimodal Rhetorics

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

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2011 RSA Career Retreat for Associate Professors

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

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Rhetorical Leadership

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

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Technological Rhetorics

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

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Latin American and Latina/o Rhetoric

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

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Rhetoric, Difference and Practical Criticism

Leader: Lester Olson, University of Pittsburgh

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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

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“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

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Critical Discourse Analysis

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

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Emerging Genres

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

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Medicine and Its Publics

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

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The Local Public Sphere: Deliberation and Community Engagement

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

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Nonrational Rhetorics

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

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Science, Controversy, Policy

Leader: Jean Goodwin, Iowa State University

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Remembering as Citizens: Rhetoric, Memory, and Citizenship

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

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Klal Rhetorica: Jewish Rhetorical Traditions

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

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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

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Communication and Social Justice in an Age of Globalization

Leader: Stephen John Hartnett, University of Colorado at Denver

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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)

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Rhetoric’s Materiality

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

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Mass Communication in Rhetorical History

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

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3rd Biennial Summer Institute 2009 - University Park, PA

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

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Visual Rhetoric: Photojournalism and Public Culture

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

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Rhetoric, Nationalism, and Post-Nationalism

Leader: Vanessa Beasley, Vanderbilt University

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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

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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

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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

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Performance and the Rhetorical Tradition

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

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Career Retreat for Associate Professors

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

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Rhetoric and Race

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

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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

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

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

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Rhetoric and the Sacred in the 21st Century

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

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Discourse Analysis for Rhetorical Studies

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

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Queering Rhetorical Studies

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

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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

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Globalization and Rhetoric

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

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Understanding Kenneth Burke through His Archives

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

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Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Forgetting

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

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

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

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Science and Its Publics

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

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Reading Lincoln's Rhetoric

Leader: David Zarefsky

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