2020 RSA Conference
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RSA 2020 Program Overview: Thursday, May 21: 9 am—5 pm: Pre-conference Events Mini-Institutes Career Retreats for Contingent Faculty and on Leadership The American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR) Symposium The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) Symposium The RSA & ISHR History of Rhetoric Symposium RSA Board Meeting 1 pm—5 pm: Career Retreat for Associate Professors 5:30 pm: Graduate Student Reception Friday, May 22: 8 am—4:45 pm: Concurrent Panel Sessions Note: Career Retreat for Associate Professors continues until 10.45 am ASHR Symposium continues until noon Recruiting and Retaining Graduate Students of Color in Rhetoric Workshop runs 9:30 am- 12:15 pm 5:15 pm: Keynote Address Catherine R. Squires, University of Minnesota “Fractal Homemaking for UnSettling Times” 6:30 pm: Reception Saturday, May 23: 8 am—3:15 pm: Concurrent Panel Sessions (Research Network Forum is from 11 am—1:45 pm) 3:30—5:15 pm: Super Sessions 5:30 pm: Awards Ceremony, followed by Town Hall Meeting for Members 7 pm: Reception Sunday, May 24: 8 am – 3.15 pm: Concurrent Panel Sessions Thursday, May 21 9 am—5 pm Pre-Conference Events Mini-Institute I: Visual Rhetoric: Past and Future Directions Co-organized by Cara Finnegan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Laurie Gries (University of Colorado-Boulder) Mini-Insitute II: Rhetorics for All: Principles and Practices in the Public Humanities Co-organized by Dave Tell (University of Kansas) and Cindy Koenig Richards (Willamette University) Pre-conference Career Development Retreats Career Retreat for Contingent Faculty Co-organized by Seth Kahn (West Chester University) and Katie Feyh (Syracuse University) Career Retreat on Leadership Co-organized by Victoria Gallagher (North Carolina State University) and David Kaufer (Carnegie Mellon University) Symposia Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Symposium American Society for the History of Rhetoric Pre-Convention Symposium International Society for the History of Rhetoric Biennial Seminar 1 pm—5 pm: Pre-conference Career Development Retreat Career Retreat for Associate Professors Co-organized by Cheryl Geisler (Simon Fraser University) and Lynée Lewis Gaillet (Georgia State University) 5:30 pm: Graduate Student Reception 2 Friday, May 22 Concurrent Sessions A: 8:00 – 9:15 am A01 Bodies, Embodiments, and Boundaries “Better Flavor, Better Health”: Neurogastronomy and the Rhetorical (De)Construction of Flavor Michael Pennell - University of Kentucky Whose body is it anyway? Microbiome rhetoric and the new frontier Molly Kesler - University of Minnesota Tick(et) to the Kingdom of the Sick: Red Meat Allergy and the Inhospitable Host Elizabeth Baddour - University of Memphis “It was like my body was trying to get rid of every reminder that the baby lived”: Visceral sense-making through pregnancy loss discourse Laura McCann - Carnegie Mellon University A02 Queer Rhetorical Studies Across Race, Time, and Nation The (Black, Queer) Children Are Our Future: Rhetorical Figurations of Childhood and Sexuality Erin Rand - Syracuse University Queer Hospitality, Livid Rhetoric of the Living Aneil Rallin - Soka University of America “I Bloom Just for You”: The Anal Rhetoric of “Bottoming” Within Troye Sivan’s “Bloom” Cory Geraths - Wabash College A Seat at the Table: Comparative Queer Rhetoric James Swider - Indiana University of Pennsylvania A03 Constitutive Encounters of Urban Spaces: Weighing Hospitality/Hostility Toward the Rhetorical Productions, Inventions, and Imaginaries that Define Our Cities Chair: Scott Mitchell - University of Wisconsin-River Falls The Texturality of Urban Sacred Spaces: Feeling God in Los Angeles in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angeles 3 José Ángel Maldonado - University of Puget Sound Creating Edgewater (CA77): Untangling Threads of Whiteness in the Production of Urban Spatial Identity Jordin Clark - Colorado State University The City that Reinvents Us: Arena México and the Spectacle of Women Wrestling Scott Mitchell - University of Wisconsin-River Falls "This doesn't feel like my city:" Rhetorics of authenticity, belonging, and cultural ethos throughout Detroit's contentious revitalization Greg Dickinson - Colorado State University A04 Feminist Rhetorical Approaches “The Public Spirited Minority”: Rhetorics of Quantity and Intensity in The National American Woman Suffrage Association 1908-1912 Nikki Weickum - Northeastern University “The Woman who Talks:” A Qualitative Case Study in Jewish Rhetorics Alexander Slotkin - University of Florida Frugality and Domestic Technology: Cooking as Targeted Advertising in Nineteenth- Century Stove Catalogs Ashley Beardsley - University of Oklahoma What a Fine Thing for Our Girls: Exploring Gender and LDS Culture in Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy Sarah Lingo - Northwestern University A05 Food, Rhetoric, and Inclusion: Disciplining Bodies in Culinary Spaces Chair: Jennifer Lin LeMesurier - Colgate University Health at Every Size, but Not at Every Way of Eating Adele Hite - North Carolina State University Knowledge is Part of the Sensorium, but Sensation Isn't for Knowledge Drake Gossi - University of Texas, Austin Trivializing the Chinese Eater as “Bloated and Icky” Jennifer Lin LeMesurier - Colgate University Urban Mobility and Food Rhetoric 4 Nathan Johnson - University of South Florida Respondent: Alexis Priestley - Virginia Tech A06 Entangled, Vulnerable, Open: New (Materialist) Approaches to Empirical Rhetorics Chair: Erin Brock Carlson - West Virginia University Giving Up on Salience Brian McNely - University of Kentucky Rendering Ambience: Writing Phenomenological Description as Method Hannah Rule - University of South Carolina Dwelling in (dis) Comfort Erin Brock Carlson - West Virginia University A07 Studies in Public Memory Hospitality, Hero Worship, and Historical Amnesia at Jackson’s Hermitage Jacob Justice -The University of Kansas On the Limits of Permanence: Toxic Masculinities and the (In)hospitable Performative of Rooseveltian Discourse Chandra Maldonado – Saint Augustine’s University Archival Communion: Memory, Delivery, and Family Archives Shelton Weech - Purdue University (In)Hospitable Memorials: Performing Solidarity with the Face of a Lifeless Other Brooke Covington - Virginia Tech A08 Centering Indigenous Voices, Challenging Settler Colonialism The Snake Hisses. The Snake is Torn: "Listening" to Latinx Affective Subjectivities in the Settler Colonial Borderlands of Eduardo C. Corral's Slow Lightning Dominique Salas - University of Wisconsin-Madison Secret Affects and Settler Colonialism: Theorizing Inhospitable Rhetoric as Komplex- Assemblage Atilla Hallsby - University of Minnesota, and Michael Lechuga - University of New Mexico 5 Walleye Wars and Resentment: Rhetorics of Responsibility in Response to Settler Colonialism John Koban - University of Wisconsin-Madison Inhospitable News: Canada's National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Jordana Cox - University of Waterloo A09 Career Retreat for Associate Professors Continues A10 Hospitality, Hospitals, and Healthcare in Digital Settings: Ethos, Trust, Credibility Chair: Laura J. Gurak - University of Minnesota The Values of Digital Spaces: The Rhetoric and Ethics of Inhospitality Trent Kays - Hampden-Sydney College Trust, hospitality, and medical expertise in the age of social media Dawn Armfield - Minnesota State University Kairotic Communication: the value of experience in patient care Medical facilities Laura J. Gurak - University of Minnesota A11 Making Global Rhetorical Scholarship Hospitable for Emerging Scholars through the International Rhetoric Workshop Chair: Rebecca Dingo - University of Massachusetts Amherst Notions of "Home" and "Host" in Global Rhetorical Scholarship James Proszek - Northwestern University Practicing Hospitality: The Limits of Citation Linh Hua - Loyola Marymount University Organizing IRW 2018 Brent Lucia - William Paterson University A12 Smooth, Sticky, Scratchy: Theorizing Rhetorical and Affective Friction Chair: Caitlin Bruce - University of Pittsburgh 6 Translating Sentences: The Work of the Reader's Body Between the Analog and Digital Jonathan Carter - Eastern Michigan University The Slipperiness of Ethos in an Anonymous World Jessy Ohl - University of Alabama "I Can't Watch": Recoiling Bodies and The Bachelorette Kellie Marin - Penn State University "I’m Talking to the Person Who is Watching This": The Imposition of Friction and the Creation of Reflexive Space Carly Elisabeth Schnitzler - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A13 ASHR Symposium Continues A14 Public Digital Rhetorics Warranting a Welcome: Using Topoi to Build Community Bridges in Nevada Land Management Kat Lambrecht - University of Nevada, Reno Shared Experiences: The New Narrative of Travel and the “Other” Elizabeth Link - Clemson University Queer Feminist Basecamp: Instagram as a Digital Archive of Queer Feminist Activism in the Outdoors Jamie Jones – Pierce College Hospitality in the Classroom: Welcoming Marginalized Rhetorics through a Digital Class Project Julie Nelson - University of Tampa A15 Sovereignty Sovereign Hospitality: Examining the Rhetorical Space of Containment at Fort Sill Corinne Sugino - University of Pittsburgh Rhetorics Outside Immunity/Autoimmunity: CFS/ME, Inconnu(e)immunity, and Bodies under “Dysfunctional” Sovereign Power Sarah Goodson - University of Hawaii at Manoa Hosting Bodies: Subverting Hospitality as Occupation Nicole Tanquary - Syracuse University 7 The Lines of