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The Rhetoric Society of America’s Third Biennial Summer Institute

2009 RSA Summer Institutes
June 22–28, 2009 * The Nittany Lion Inn
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WORKSHOPS (June 26–28)

The institute will include nineteen workshops, which will typically enroll between five and eighteen participants. Below is a list of the workshops: 

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