The Rhetoric Society of America‘s conference will be held this Thursday, May 26th through Sunday, May 29th at the Hilton in downtown Atlanta. We have a great representation of current GSU Rhetoric & Composition students and faculty, as well as a number of our alums! The conference program is challenging to search by institution type, so if I’ve missed your presentation, please send me an email (aholmes@gsu.edu) with your name, presentation title, and day/time, and I’ll add you to our list. We’ll have a number of our GSU Communications Department colleagues there, too, though the list below is for Rhet/Comp in English. Hope to see you at RSA!
Thursday, May 26
- 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Preconference Career Retreat for Associate Professors, Dr. Lynee Gaillet, English, Georgia State University
Friday, May 27
- 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM, “WeChat as Activist Agent: Rhetoric and Change in Transnational Publics,” Dr. Baotong Gu, English, Georgia State University, and Xiaobo Wang, Georgia State University
- 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM, “Fortuitous Happenstance”: Serendipity in Archival Research,” Dr. Lynee Gaillet, English, Georgia State University
- 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM, “Finding the Ideal (Woman) Orator: Changing the Idea and the Gender of Cicero’s and Quintilian’s Ideal Orator, with Revisionist Rhetoric and Feminist Historiography,” Dr. Beth Burmester, English, Georgia State University
Saturday, May 28
- 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, “Death, Suffering, and Power: Persuasions of Marcus Aurelius and the 14th Dalai Lama,” Kristen Ruccio, English, Georgia State University
- 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM, “Ideology and History in Institutional Mission Statements: Supporting Contemporary Public Works of Rhetoric,” Dr. Ashley J. Holmes, English, Georgia State University
Sunday, May 29
- 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, “Institutional Success and Writing Centers: Reverting Back to Remediation,” Cristine Busser, English, Georgia State University
- 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, “Across Diverse Crisis Arenas: (Con) text Approach to Understanding Corporate Crisis and Communication in Intercultural Contexts,” Lin Dong, English, Georgia State University
- 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, “Pricking Their Conscience: Quilts in Support of Abolition,” Dr. Marcia Bost, English, Shorter University (GSU alum)
- 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM, “Ableist Rhetoric in Foundational Works of Rhetoric and Composition,” Kristen Ruccio, English, Georgia State University
- 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM, “Transformative Language and Rhetoric: The Press and the Civil Rights Movement,” Dr. Lara Smith-Sitton, English, Kennesaw State University (GSU alum)
- 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM, “Tracing Critical Pedagogy’s Rhetoric of Change: Paulo Freire, Myles Horton, and Stetson Kennedy as Brothers in the Struggle,” Dr. Helen Diana Eidson, English, Auburn University (GSU alum)
- 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM, “Teaching Ethnography as a Means for Change and Action,” Lindsey Spring, Georgia State University
- 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM, “Speaking/Writing from the Margins: Ethos and the Civil Rights Movement,” Dr. Letizia Guglielmo, English, Kennesaw State University (GSU alum)
Please add:
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. “Pricking Their Conscience: Quilts in Support of Abolition” as part of panel “Pens and Needles: The Interchange of Visual and Verbal Rhetoric in the Abolitionist Movement” Dr. Marcia Bost, English, Shorter University. (GSU alum)
Of course! Thanks, Marcia!