[KB] Calling All Burkelers: 2015 RSA Summer Institute

[Edward C Appel]

Did I read this announcement about the RSA Summer Institute seminar on Burke's RM too superficially, or what?  Where will it be held?

By the way, thanks, Professor Taylor, for your most interesting and relevant book chapter.  I'm reading it.



Ed
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On Sat, 9/13/14, David Blakesley <david.blakesley at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [KB] Calling All Burkelers: 2015 RSA Summer Institute
 To: "kb at kbjournal.org" <kb at kbjournal.org>
 Date: Saturday, September 13, 2014, 3:28 PM
 
 Posted on behalf of
 Jack Selzer:
 Calling All Burkelers
 
 You, Your Students, and Your Colleagues Are
 Invited
 To the 2015 RSA Summer Institute Seminar on 
 
 “The War of
 Words,” A Rhetoric of Motives, and Contemporary
 Rhetorical Theory” led byJack
 Selzer, Penn State UniversityKyle
 Jensen, University of North TexasKrista Ratcliffe, Marquette
 University Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of
 Motives has of course been recognized as a foundational
 contribution to rhetorical theory ever since its appearance
 in 1950. Because it expanded our collective sense of “the
 realm of rhetoric” (so that we now understand science,
 art, and materiality as falling within the domain of
 rhetoric) and because it offered the concept of
 “identification” as a complement to Aristotelian
 categories of persuasion, A Rhetoric of
 Motives remains the central text for everyone working
 out the premises of “the new rhetoric.” And yet as
 widely read as it is, RM remains imperfectly and
 incompletely understood: the details of “identification”
 remain as confounding as they are intriguing, and large
 sections of RM remain confusing or elusive. Participants in this seminar, therefore,
 will work together to comprehend RM and to tease
 out its implications for the study of contemporary
 discourse. Toward that end, participants will have a chance
 to review and discuss a lengthy, intriguing, recently
 discovered section of RM—called “The War of
 Words”—that Burke decided to delete from his manuscript
 at the last minute. Not only will the seminar leaders be
 sharing the contents of “The War of Words” (an edition
 of it is now in preparation) but they will also make
 available other archival materials which bear on RM,
 including correspondence between Burke and his colleagues
 and friends J. S. Watson, Malcolm Cowley, and Stanley Edgar
 Hyman (among others). Careful attention will also be given
 over to an analysis of “identification” and the terms
 associated with it in RM. But guiding
 daily discussion will be participants’ own research and
 individual questions. Participants will be encouraged to
 submit short statements about their own questions and
 scholarly interests (we seek a mix of graduate students,
 junior faculty, and more senior scholars), and at least half
 the time will be given over to participants’ developing
 projects. If things go as planned, participants will leave
 with a more mature understanding of RM as well as
 invigorated individual work, whether it be an
 article-in-progress, a dissertation or book chapter, or
 whatever. Given the contents of RM and
 “The War of Words,” we anticipate that the seminar will
 interest, in addition to students of Kenneth Burke, scholars
 working on post-World War II culture, publics theory,
 national identity, rhetorical theory, rhetorics of the
 popular press, and listening rhetorics. Join us!
 Applications due
 on October 1,
 2014.
 
 For information on how to
 participate, go to the Rhetoric Society of America Web site,
 or write Jack Selzer (jls25 at psu.edu)
 “The War of Words,” A Rhetoric of
 Motives, and Contemporary Rhetorical TheorySeminar leaders:Jack Selzer, Penn State University
 Kyle Jensen, University of North Texas
 Krista Ratcliffe, Marquette University
 Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric
 of Motives has of course been recognized as a
 foundational contribution to rhetorical theory ever since
 its appearance in 1950. Because it expanded our collective
 sense of “the realm of rhetoric” (so that we now
 understand science, art, and materiality as falling within
 the domain of rhetoric) and because it offered the concept
 of “identification” as a complement to Aristotelian
 categories of persuasion, A Rhetoric of
 Motives remains the central text for everyone working
 out the premises of “the new rhetoric.” And yet as
 widely read as it is, RM remains imperfectly and
 incompletely understood: the details of “identification”
 remain as confounding as they are intriguing, and large
 sections of RM remain confusing or elusive.Participants in this seminar, therefore,
 will work together to comprehend RM and to tease
 out its implications for the study of contemporary
 discourse. Toward that end, participants will have a chance
 to review and discuss a lengthy, intriguing, recently
 discovered section of RM—called “The War of
 Words”—that Burke decided to delete from his manuscript
 at the last minute. Not only will the seminar leaders be
 sharing the contents of “The War of Words” (an edition
 of it is now in preparation) but they will also make
 available other archival materials which bear
 on RM, including correspondence between Burke and
 his colleagues and friends J. S. Watson, Malcolm Cowley, and
 Stanley Edgar Hyman (among others). Careful attention will
 also be given over to an analysis of “identification”
 and the terms associated with it in RM.
 But guiding daily discussion will
 be participants’ own research and individual questions.
 Participants will be encouraged to submit short statements
 about their own questions and scholarly interests (we seek a
 mix of graduate students, junior faculty, and more senior
 scholars), and at least half the time will be given over to
 participants’ developing projects. If things go as
 planned, participants will leave with a more mature
 understanding of RM as well as invigorated
 individual work, whether it be an article-in-progress, a
 dissertation or book chapter, or whatever.Given the contents of RM and
 “The War of Words,” we anticipate that the seminar will
 interest, in addition to students of Kenneth Burke, scholars
 working on post-World War II culture, publics theory,
 national identity, rhetorical theory, rhetorics of the
 popular press, and listening rhetorics. Join us!
 Questions should be directed to
 Jack Selzer, jls25 at psu.edu
 - See more at: http://associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/pt/sd/news_article/89380/_blank/layout_details/false#sthash.ro7C6Pzd.dpuf
 
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