[KB] Calling All Burkelers: 2015 RSA Summer Institute

[Jack Selzer]

Thanks for asking for clarification, Ed--and apologies for the inadequate posting.

The RSA Institute meets in Madison, June 1-7, 2015. For info, go to the Rhetoric Society of America site and click on "Institutes" (not "Conferences").

Jack



Jack Selzer
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Department of English
Penn State University
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward C Appel" <edwardcappel at frontier.com>
To: "David Blakesley" <david.blakesley at gmail.com>
Cc: kb at kbjournal.org
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 9:58:07 PM
Subject: Re: [KB] Calling All Burkelers: 2015 RSA Summer Institute

I had followed the link and found no information about location.  I followed the link again, this time clicked into another link at that site, "Conferences," and only found information on the May, 2014, RSA conference.

Still don't know where the conference in question is to be held.

No big deal in any case.  But I am curious.  Sounds interesting.



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

 Subject: Re: [KB] Calling All Burkelers: 2015 RSA Summer Institute
 To: "Edward C Appel" <edwardcappel at frontier.com>
 Cc: "kb at kbjournal.org" <kb at kbjournal.org>
 Date: Saturday, September 13, 2014, 4:52 PM
 
 Just
 follow the link at the bottom to the RSA site, where you can
 find out about registration, the site, dates, and all the
 rest . . .
 Dave
 On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at
 4:38 PM, Edward C Appel <edwardcappel at frontier.com>
 wrote:
 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
 
 --------------------------------------------
 
 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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