2018 NCERW RSA Panel

Re-Inventing Rhetoric: Celebrating the Past, Building the Future

• NCERW Affiliated Session Panel: Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

C10 Environmental Rhetoric as Invention: The National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric & Writing—Performing Project Identities as Acts of Resistance

5 Minute Position Paper Working Titles:

• Risa Applegarth “Conditions of Embodiment for Sustainability Activism.”

• Paul Formisano “Humanists at the Headgates: Reimagining Western Water Management in the 21st Century”

• Michelle Hall Kells “Querencia: Rhetorics of Place and the Power of Radical Intimacy.”

• Michaelann Nelson “Rhetorics of Rebellion: What the Politics of the Bears Ear Monument Can Teach Us about Environmental Activism.”

• Noel Thistle Teague “Of Fields and Fieldwork: Doing Environmental Rhetoric in Rural Northern New York.”

• Susan Gilbertz “Sifting and Shifting: How Discovery and Uncertaintly Impact

Agenda: Chair: Michelle Hall Kells

• 5 Minute Position Papers (6 Panelists) 3:30-4:00

• Regional Roundtable Discussion 4:00-4:30

• Closing Remarks & Action Items 4:30-4:45

Panel Member Contact Information:

• Contact |Institution | NCERW Region | Email

• Risa Applegarth | UNC-Greensboro | Southeast | risa_applegarth@uncg.edu

• Michelle Hall Kells | U of New Mexico | Southwest | mkells@unm.edu

• Paul Formisano | U of South Dakota | Big Sky/Great Plains | Paul.Formisano@usd.edu

• Susan Gilbertz | Montana State-Billings | Northwest | sgilbertz@msubillings.edu

• Michaelann Nelson | Utah State East | ASLE NCERW | michaelann.nelson@usu.edu

• Noel Thistle | U of Pittsburgh | Northeast | net16@pitt.edu

NCERW RSA 2018 Follow Up Action Items:

• Identifying an Environmental Rhetoric Strand in RSA 2020 program;

• Including representatives from each regional chapter for 2020 RSA NCERW Affiliated panel;

• Recruiting emerging scholars to participate in NCERW affiliated panel and RSA strand;

• Establishing an NCERW SIG (Special Interest Group) as an official sub-group of RSA;

• Proposing an NCERW Pre-conference workshop;

• Hosting an NCERW Conference (or pre-conference) Meet & Greet Dinner at local restaurant in 2020 (for new and established NCERW members);

• Proposing NCERW RSA 2020 Conference Super-Session;

• Building NCERW Facebook RSA 2020 Meet & Greet social media platform;

• Including NCERW Full Page Advertisement in RSA 2020 Convention Program (with online invitations to NCERW sponsored RSA panels, workshops, RSA Meet & Greet dinner; 2019 NCERW Taos Workshop with links to NCERW resource website and membership directory);

• Generating an annual NCERW Online Newsletter with featured articles on current projects; member profiles; action items; etc.

OBJECTIVES FOR 2018 RSA NCERW Panel/ GOALS FOR NCERW

Our 5-minute position papers should respond in some way to the objectives of NCERW and/or the overarching goals of the Consortium. The objectives are as follows:

• Consider and confirm the NCERW Vision/Mission (goals/objectives) Statement;

• Extend open invitation to new NCERW members

• Articulate and define the NCERW organizational structure;

• Deliberate together over the NCERW Intellectual statement w/ professional guidelines for scholars of environmental rhetoric, ecological (community) literacies and their institutions;

• Extend the terms/benefits of NCERW membership as well as a plan for developing a membership directory;

• Invite new scholar cohort (8-10 participants) for 2019 NCERW Taos Writers Workshop;

• Develop a plan for expanding the NCWAC resource website (more inclusive and representative of expanding membership).

Guiding the achievement of the above objectives should be a consideration of the overarching goals of the NCERW to:

• Promote deliberative democratic practice in the public sphere and ecological literacy projects;

• Advocate for culturally-relevant, linguistically-informed approaches to environmental rhetoric initiatives and ecological literacy education for historically-underserved student populations;

• Promote curriculum development for new scholarship and pedagogical approaches to Environmental Rhetoric, Sustainability Studies programs, and Environmental Justice Activism, etc.

• Mentor graduate students and junior faculty (graduate school through tenure) so as to make it safe and feasible for them to do the scholarly work of environmental rhetoric and ecological literacy;

• Promote resource-sharing and collaborative scholarly projects between faculty and graduate students across institutions;

• Advocate for the inclusion of scholars of color and leaders of historically underrepresented communities in NCERW and RSA environmental rhetoric strands;

• Generate local and regional projects engaging environmental activism and civic education across communities.