Coalition Curated Guide to #RSA50
The Rhetoric Society of America‘s 18th biennial conference promises to celebrate the past and build towards the future for scholars of rhetoric and composition. And feminist scholars are occupying important roles in these conversations. We are delighted and overwhelmed to see that the conference will include a robust range of feminist rhetorical scholarship, which you can find on each page of the program. We offer you this list of sessions featuring research, methods, theories, and performances that are of particular interest to feminist scholars in the history of rhetoric and composition. This is not a complete list, and we welcome recommendations from our members and readers.
We are particularly excited to attend Andrea Lunsford’s keynote address on Thursday at 5:45 in the Grand Ballroom A, 3rd Floor. We look forward to seeing all of you at this special event.
We also plan to have a robust social media presence at #RSA50. You are invited to contribute to this conversation using our hashtags #CFSHRC and/or #TheFeministsAreComing along with #RSA50. And you can follow along by following our Twitter feed at @CFSHRC
Thursday Afternoon
A07 – Cooking Personalities: Add Rhetoric, then Stir, Directors Row 3, 3rd Floor
A08 – Feminist Comics, Directors Row 4, 3rd Floor
A12 – Environmental Rhetoric and the Southwest: Inventions and Reconstructions, Grand Ballroom D, 3rd Floor
A16 – Protest in the Age of Trump, Marquette 4, 2nd Floor
A18 – Rhetorics Reimagined: Race, Knowledge, and Rhetoric Across Space and Place, Marquette 6, 2nd Floor
A24 – Beyond the Closed Fist: Activist Rhetoric and Creative-Critical Scholarship in a Digital Age, Symphony 3, 2nd Floor
B02 – Rhetorical Constructions of Motherhood: From Roe v. Wade to Michelle Obama, Board Room 2, 3rd Floor
B05 – Back to Gilead’s Post-racial Future: Postcolonial Critiques of White Feminist Dystopia in the Handmaid’s Tale, Conrad C, 2nd Floor
B09 – Enacting Intersectional Methodology: Three Sites of Feminist Rhetorical Intervention, Grand Ballroom A, 3rd Floor
B15 – Methodological Heuristics for Rhetorical Fieldwork: Navigating Incommensurable Research Spaces, Marquette 3, 2nd Floor
B16 – Centering Bodies, Locating Positionalities: Cross Disciplinary Conversations on Embodiment in Rhetorical Studies, Marquette 4, 2nd Floor
B21 – Transnational Feminist Social Engagement, Marquette 9, 2nd Floor
B22 – Queering Normativities: Rhetoric, Intimacy, and the “Normal”, Marquette 9, 2nd Floor
B25 – Institutional Rhetorics: Logics, Legislation, and Legitimation, Symphony 4, 2nd Floor
C03 – Participatory Politics Online, in the House, and on the Street, Board Room 3, 3rd Floor
C04 – Gender in Public, Conrad A, 2nd Floor
C05 – Free to Associate: Clubs and Activist Groups, Past and Present, and my paper is: Welcome to the Club: Debating Societies and Bluestocking Salons
C09 – Body-based Numeracies: Big Data and Feminist Rhetorical Maths, Directors Row 4, 3rd Floor
C21 – The Personal is Political is Purchasable: Exploring the Rhetorical Function of Marketplace Feminism, Marquette 8, 2nd Floor
Friday Morning
D06 – Re-examining Conservative Women’s Religious Rhetoric, Directors Row 1, 3rd Floor
D10 – Reinventing Rhetorical Practices: Ancient, Medieval, and Contemporary, d Ballroom C, 3rd Floor
D19 – Objects and Fabrics in Feminist Social Movements, Marquette 9, 2nd Floor
D21 – Public Memory and Feminist Inquiry, Symphony 1, 2nd Floor
E06 – Millennial Rhetorics: Gender and Culture in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, Conrad D, 2nd Floor
E17 – The Recovery Room: New Directions for Nineteenth-Century Women’s Rhetorics, Marquette 4, 2nd Floor
E19 – Rhetorics of War and Masculinity, Marquette 6, 2nd Floor
E 21- Not Sticking to Sports: Athlete Protests and their Rhetorical Implications, Marquette 8, 2nd Floor
E25 – Rhetorics of Veg*nism, Symphony 2, 2nd Floor
F06 – Histories of Feminist Rhetoric: With Pen and Platform, Conrad D, 2nd Floor
F08 – Considerations of Kairos in Rhetorical History, Directors Row 2, 3rd Floor
F09 – Intersections of Queer Experience and Science, Directors Row 3, 3rd Floor
F16 – (Re)envisioning “Refugees” in Networked Media Ecologies, Marquette 1, 2nd Floor
F18 – Archival Queers at the Kinsey Institute: Queering Historical Productions of HIV and AIDS, Marquette 3, 2nd Floor
F19 – The Star that Guides Us Still: Women of Color on Rhetoric, Invention, and Democracy, Marquette 4, 2nd Floor
F21 – Black Women, Identity, and Activism, Marquette 7, 2nd Floor
F22 – Queer Spaces, Marquette 8, 2nd Floor
F24 – Creating Collectivity in the Neoliberal Academy: The Case for a Transinstitutional Feminist Collaborative, Rochester, 3rd Floor
F27 – Medical Institutions and Rhetorical Constitution, Symphony 3, 2nd Floor
Friday Afternoon
G09 – (Re)Inventing Rhetorics Within and Outside of Religious Orthodoxy, Directors Row 3, 3rd Floor
G18 – Inventing and Re-Inventing Pro-Queer and Anti-Queer Rhetorics, Marquette 3, 2nd Floor
G21 – Powerplay: Methods of Critique of Power Structures in Public Representation, Marquette 6, 2nd Floor
G22 – Animal Entanglements, Marquette 7, 2nd Floor
G24 – Bringing the Past to the Present: Respectability Politics, Sonic Rhetorics, and Digital Dissent as Frameworks in the Black Rhetorical Tradition, Marquette 9, 2nd Floor
G27 – In Memoria: New Materialism and Sites of Public Commemoration, Symphony 2, 2nd Floor
G29 – Managerial Rhetoric and Science, Symphony 4, 2nd Floor
H11 – Pragmatism and New Approaches to the History of Rhetoric, CoSponsored by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Duluth Room, 3rd Floor
H12 – Motherhood as an Inventional Resource: Rhetoric, Reproduction, and
Contemporary Sites of Identity, Grand Ballroom A, 3rd Floor
H15 – (Re)Inventing Feminist Historiography, Marquette 1, 2nd Floor
H18 – Unbinding the Body: Female Shapeshifting as a Rhetorical Strategy of Survival, Marquette 4, 2nd Floor
H19 – Re-inventing Higher Education, Marquette 5, 2nd Floor
H21 – Queer Identities, Queer Communities, Queer Worldmaking, Marquette 7, 2nd Floor
H24 – Listening to the Silences in Rhetorical Myths: New Directions in Rhetorical Feminism and Mythic Historiography, Rochester, 3rd Floor
I15 – Researchers, Activists, and Archivists: A Roundtable Discussion on Queer Archives, Marquette 3, 2nd Floor
I18 – Solidarity Forever: Worker Fights and Labor Frontiers, Marquette 6, 2nd Floor
J01 – Keynote Address: Andrea Lunsford, Grand Ballroom A, 3rd Floor, B, C, D
Saturday Morning
L02 – Literary Roots of Rhetoric, Board Room 3
L06 – Unusual and Under-recognized Oratory, Conrad D, 2nd Floor
L12 – On Bathroom Bill, Grand Ballroom B, 3rd Floor
L15 – Reinventing Social Movement Rhetoric?: Studies in Recent Movements and Messages, Marquette 2, 2nd Floor
L16 – Will Masterpiece Cakeshop be the icing on the cake for the gay rights movement, or will Jack Phillips be able to have his cake and eat it too?: An Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Marquette 3, 2nd Floor
L27 – She Works Hard For (No) Money: (Re)Inventing Women’s Empowerment and The Rhetoric of Commodified Feminisms, Symphony 4, 2nd Floor
M01 – Grief, Loss, and Politics, Board Room 2, 3rd Floor
M03 – Sport, Gender, and the Constitutive Rhetorics of Identity, Conrad A, 2nd Floor
M08 – Facing the Oxymorons of Political Activism: Underlying Rhetorical Activities of Noisy/Silent Politics, Directors Row 2, 3rd Floor
M13 – Queer Trans Culture and Invention Beyond Visibility: Experiencing Cassils, Grand Ballroom B, 3rd Floor
M19 – Networks of Fascism, Marquette 5, 2nd Floor
M28 – Libera/story: circular and narrative power of failures and successes in cultural rhetorics, Symphony 4, 2nd Floor
N04 – Technical Communication In and Out of the Classroom, Conrad B, 2nd Floor
N05 – Interrogating Digital Infrastructures: New Directions for Feminist and Queer Rhetorics, Conrad C, 2nd Floor
N07 – Invention’s Re-invention: Looking Forward, Looking Back, Directors Row 1, 3rd Floor
N23 – Theorizing Feminist Action Across and Between Race, Marquette 9, 2nd Floor
N25 – Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Rhetorical Double-Bind, Symphony 1, 2nd Floor
Saturday Afternoon
O03 – Presidents and their Others, Conrad A, 2nd Floor
O04 – Re-inventing Composition Studies: History, Theory, Praxis, Conrad B, 2nd Floor
O08 – Imitatio and Improv: Rhetorical Invention in Social Justice Efforts, Directors Row 2, 3rd Floor
O19 – Trans Bodies and Trans Words in Public, Marquette 6, 2nd Floor
O26 – Reimagining Family Rhetoric: Critical Imagination as a Tool for Reinventing Historical Research, Symphony 4, 2nd Floor
P01 – Geo-Rhetorics, Board Room 2, 3rd Floor
P03 – Walking, Talking, and Writing Feminist Memory, Conrad A, 2nd Floor
P07 – Beyond the West and the Rest: Initiating Dialogue Between Non-Western and Western Rhetorical Traditions, Directors Row 1, 3rd Floor
P18 – Women of Alternative Means: Radical (Re)Visioning and the Black Freedom Struggle, Marquette 4, 2nd Floor
P21 – Memes from the Left and from the Right, Marquette 7, 2nd Floor
P22 – Queer Methods, Marquette 8, 2nd Floor
P23 – Reinvention for Discovery, Disruption, and Diversion: Women’s Suffrage, African American Racial Uplift, and Asian American Versatility, Marquette 9, 2nd Floor
P28 – Feminist Interventions in Public and Private, Symphony 4, 2nd Floor
Sunday Morning
T10 – Rhetorical Practice in Church and Temple, Directors Row 4, 3rd Floor
T12 – Science, Security, and State: An Investigation of Scientific and Technological Rhetoric as Interventions in Political Discourse, Marquette 1, 2nd Floor
T14 – Spatial Reinvention: Rhetorics of Memory, Impermanence and Culture in the Public Sphere, Marquette 3, 2nd Floor
T15 – Imaging and Imagining Rhetoric, Marquette 4, 2nd Floor
T17 – Reinventing Spaces for Disabled Bodies, Marquette 6, 2nd Floor
T19 – New Media, New Rhetorics?: Re-Inventing Rhetoric’s Past with Its Technological Future, Marquette 8, 2nd Floor
T20 – Chinese Comparative Rhetorical Studies: Research and Methodology, Marquette 9, 2nd Floor
T23 – The Body as a Source of Re/Inventio in Ancient Rhetorics, Symphony 2, 2nd Floor
T24 – The Rhetorics of Women in Unexpected Places, Symphony 3, 2nd Floor
U02 – Power & the Invention of Archival Stories, Conrad A, 2nd Floor
U03 – Gender and Sexuality in Support and Advice Texts, Conrad B, 2nd Floor
U09 – Reinventing Trust in the Digital Age, Directors Row 4, 3rd Floor
U12 – Re-visioning Aristotle’s On Rhetoric, Marquette 2, 2nd Floor
U13 – Queer Reparative Practices: Pedagogies, Publics, and Presents, Marquette 3, 2nd Floor
V03 – Pragmatism, Rhetoric, and Leftism, Conrad A, 2nd Floor
V04 – Social Movement Rhetoric: Theories and Methods, Conrad B, 2nd Floor
V11 – Speaking for and with Others Ethically: Perils and Possibilities in Researching Precarious Populations, Grand Ballroom A, 3rd Floor
V17 – Queering Productive and Problematic Discourse Online, Marquette 6, 2nd Floor
V24 – Re/Inventing Rhetoric Between Trajectories and Accountabilities: “Non-Western,” Global, and Hybrid Traditions, Symphony 3, 2nd Floor
V25 – Rhetoric’s Intentions and Effects, Symphony 4, 2nd Floor
This blog post was compiled by Jenn Fishman, Jane Greer, and Patricia Fancher.
