[KB] Calling All Burkelers: 2015 RSA Summer Institute

Sun Sep 14 13:43:43 EDT 2014

Thanks, Jack, for that info!  I appreciate it.  Great work in putting together that well-conceived seminar.

Ed
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On Sun, 9/14/14, Jack Selzer <jls25 at psu.edu> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [KB] Calling All Burkelers: 2015 RSA Summer Institute
 To: kb at kbjournal.org
 Date: Sunday, September 14, 2014, 12:18 PM

 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
 Paterno Family Liberal Arts
 Professor
 Department of English
 Penn State University
 15
 Burrowes Building
 University Park, PA 
 16802
 (814) 865-0251
 fax: 
 814-863-6834
 web: 
 www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/l/jls25/
 (this email is confidential; its contents
 should not be shared without permission)

 ----- 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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