4/5 Wrapup: Comparative Rhetorics Symposium and Looking Forward

Dear All,

As promised, here is a link to the table where we made note of driving forces across the Fall 2013 special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly (43.3, guest edited by LuMing Mao). If you'd like me to post your preparation notes to Canvas, feel free to send them to me via e-mail.

We will meet in the classroom next week (April 12) for a communal working session, so please bring any materials you need in order to make headway on your RNF projects. We'll have projection if we need it, and whiteboard space, and I can conduct break-out conferences on an individual basis. (Of course, also feel free to seek me out in office hours or an appointment outside of class.)

There is much work to do in preparation for our RNF Symposium on April 19. We have a small audience committed to attend and offer questions and critical feedback on your projects. In addition, I will send a general invitation to the English listservs next week. To date, we can anticipate an audience of 17 people (including ourselves), so do keep that in mind when it comes to providing copies of any handouts.

I'll design a program for the symposium next week and would appreciate having your full titles as soon as possible. I'm also more than happy to help you brainstorm ways to trim or clarify if you're struggling with titular scope.

Finally, here is the general order of speakers and topics that I circulated to our audience earlier today:

3:35-4:35 (10-minute presentation and 10-minute discussion each participant)

• Andrew Ealum, The Problem of Authenticity in Studies of MesoAmerican Rhetorics
• Ashley Rea, Listening to the Cross-Cultural Archive 
• Stephanie Levitt, Rhetoric, Indigeneity, and Legal Discourse

*** 10-minute break ***

4:45-5:45 (10-minute presentation and 10-minute discussion each participant) 

• Travis Maynard, Re-assembling Assemblage within a Non-Western Framework 
• Sean McCullough, Listening for Rhetorical “Silence” in How Graphic Novels Write Global Conflict 
• Meghan Dykema, Questioning Agency in the Circulation of Non-Western Women’s Rights Activism

5:45-6:05 General Q&A and wrap-up

See you next week!
Dr. Graban