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[Commlist] CFP for ASHR Symposium: Rhetoric in Motu
Fri Jun 18 13:22:02 GMT 2021
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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