[Commlist] CFP for ASHR Symposium: Rhetoric in Motu

Who: U.S. American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR)

What: CFP for 2022 ASHR Symposium. Theme:*/ Rhetoric in Motu/*

When/Where: May 25-27, 2022, Baltimore, Maryland, United States/, 
/immediately prior to the 2022 Rhetoric Society of America convention.//

Many definitions of rhetoric center around the ability to /move/, 
inspire, motivate, or energize. From the ability to call masses to 
action, to the catalyzing of social movements that interrogate and 
redefine the status quo, rhetoric is about mobility, motion, movement, 
potentiality, and energy.

Rhetoric/ in motu/, a counterpart to our past symposium theme of 
rhetoric /in situ,/ is the theme of the 2022 American Society for the 
History of Rhetoric (ASHR) Symposium, the first after a global pandemic 
that had forced many to stop and stay mostly in one place, location, 
nation, while challenging notions of presence and movement through 
technological and digital innovations. The COVID-19 pandemic has 
amplified and made visible inequalities, differences as systemic, 
historic, stubborn in their stasis, yet moving many to new or renewed 
action. Rhetoric /in motu/ is about mobility, motion, movement, energy, 
corporeality, connecting back to the 2020 symposium theme of excess, 
superfluidity, infinity, extravagance, and immoderation.

We are excited to announce three keynote speakers who will address the 
theme of the 2022 ASHR Symposium, /rhetoric in motu/:

*Maryam Ahmadi, Dr. Rudo Mudiwa, *and* Dr. Karrieann Soto Vega.*

*Maryam Ahmadi* is a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric, Politics, & Culture 
program in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a BA in English and an MA in Political 
Sociology from the University of Tehran. Her research explores the 
possibilities and limits of the rhetorics of epistemic decolonization, 
with current work focused on the discourse of 
/gharbzadegi/ [occidentosis] within the context of the Iranian 
Revolution of 1979. By engaging rhetorical theory and history, 
postcolonial and decolonial studies, and theories of political economy, 
Maryam examines the rhetoric of /gharbzadegi/ as a geo- and 
body-politically specific genre of epistemic decolonization to consider 
how non-Western rhetorics and knowledges resist and/or replicate the 
machinery of epistemic and economic violence.

*Dr. Rudo Mudiwa *is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, rhetoric, and 
gender whose research focuses on the politics and promise of 
decolonization in Africa. She is presently working on a book manuscript 
titled, /A Nation of Prostitutes: Sex Work, Policing and the Invention 
of Zimbabwe/, which examines how anxieties about the mobilities of black 
women in urban space—symbolized by the figure of the prostitute—animated 
the early years of Zimbabwe's independence. This research was funded by 
the Social Science Research Council and earned the American Society for 
the History of Rhetoric's 2019 Dissertation Award. Mudiwa is currently a 
Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton. In the fall of 
2021, she will be joining UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor in the 
Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies.

*Dr. Karrieann Soto Vega* is Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, 
and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky, where she is also 
affiliated with the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and with 
the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program. Her research 
and pedagogical interests span Puerto Rican and Latinx rhetoric, 
decolonial and transnational feminisms, social movements and sovereignty 
struggles across oceanic borderspaces and modalities. The 2018 American 
Society for the History of Rhetoric Dissertation Award in 2018 was 
awarded to her dissertation, titled “Rhetorics of Defiance: Gender, 
Colonialism, and Lolita Lebrón’s Struggle for Puerto Rican Sovereignty.” 
More recent work can be found in the /Journal for the History of 
Rhetoric/, /Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies/, and in 
/Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture/. She served 
as board member of RSA from 2018-2022 and is looking forward to serving 
the discipline in other ways in the near future.

The goal of the symposium is to generate conversation about mobility, 
motion, energy, environmental and physical practices around the 
movement, habits, ideas and practices of people throughout the history 
of rhetoric.

Following recent decisions in and around academe to feature and support 
the work of emerging, independent, and untenured scholars (e.g., the 
American Council of Learned Societies 
<https://associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/ctrb/186145/5185/204140?c=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acls.org%2FCompetitions-and-Deadlines%2FACLS-Fellowships&i=4>), 
we invite submissions /exclusively/ from early-career scholars 
(pre-tenure, non-tenure track, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate 
students), independent scholars, artists, and practitioners in the 
history and practice of rhetoric.

We invite proposals for contributions that include but are not limited 
to academic and non-academic papers, such as: art, poetry, dance, film 
performances/exhibits/installations and other creative formats and ways 
to engage with and challenge the history and historiography of rhetoric.

Potential lines of inquiry include:

+ What terms or ideas around mobility, motion, energy, corporeality 
within the history of rhetoric await further development?

+ When and for whom can mobility, movement, and energy be modes of 
liberation?

+ Who and what are allowed to be mobile, free to move or to have and 
display energy, who and what are not, and who decides?

+ What political modes connect to discourses of mobility, motion, 
movement, energy for corporeal and inhuman objects, and how do they work 
rhetorically?

+ What aesthetic modes have arisen from a spirit of mobility, movement, 
motion, energetic forces and how do they work rhetorically?

+ What kinds of media and other innovative forms and cultural practices 
have developed because of/through mobility, motion, movement, energy? 
What cases are made for their necessity? Who makes them?

+ What’s the relationship between mobility and immobility? Can we 
conceive of movement without stoppage?

+ Pedagogically or methodologically, how does one account for and do 
justice to the vastness of the history of rhetoric? How does pedagogy 
connect and relate to movement/motion/energy, especially considering the 
ways COVID has warped teaching and our classrooms?

Use this form 
<https://associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/ctrb/186145/5185/204140?c=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLScwvDhmYxmaNV-V8--n1IOIZ-0hHJIBbkw0JrnN5s6Mebsh1A%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link&i=5> for 
all submissions of proposals: https://forms.gle/usN2cL6SDu67GY3i9 
<https://associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/ctrb/186145/5185/204140?c=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FusN2cL6SDu67GY3i9&i=6> no 
later than *September 15, 2021, at midnight (EST). *

There is no cost to attend the Symposium, but all presenters must be 
members of ASHR (joining can happen /after/ acceptance) and must 
register for the RSA 2022 conference (see the RSA call for papers here: 
https://rhetoricsociety.confex.com/rhetoricsociety/2022/cfp.cgi 
<https://associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/ctrb/186145/5185/204140?c=https%3A%2F%2Frhetoricsociety.confex.com%2Frhetoricsociety%2F2022%2Fcfp.cgi&i=7>).

For more information on ASHR and becoming a member, visit 
https://ashr.org/ 
<https://associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/ctrb/186145/5185/204140?c=https%3A%2F%2Fashr.org%2F&i=8>

Email questions to Alessandra Von Burg, (beaslea /at/ wfu.edu) 
<mailto:(beaslea /at/ wfu.edu)>

*2022 ASHR Symposium @RSA Planning Committee:*

Natalie Bennie, Penn State University
Marissa Croft, Northwestern University
Cory Geraths, Wabash College
Jordan Houston, Wake Forest University
Ruby Johnston, Penn State University
Jennie Keohane, University of Baltimore
Michele Kennerly, Penn State University
Allison Prasch, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alessandra Von Burg, Wake Forest University

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