2019 Schedule at a Glance

Friday morning: Breakfast, then by two plenary sessions of three presentations each where all attendees will attend individual presentations about the topics of “civic, public, local.”

Lunch on your own. There are lots of options within a 10 minute walk of the venue. Use this time to get to know the other attendees or find some solitude in the middle of a busy day.

Friday afternoon: Two more plenary sessions followed by a large group discussion about the future of the Applied Rhetoric Collaborative.

Friday evening: Work talk shifts to community building over dinner as a group. Location(s) TBA.

Saturday morning: Large group discussion to brainstorm applied rhetoric opportunities, network for potential applied rhetoric collaborations, and discuss ongoing goals for the organization in this emerging interdisciplinary field. Committee meetings.

Lunch on your own. Try something new. Check your email or social media. Use this time to get to know the other attendees or find some solitude in the middle of a busy day.

Saturday afternoon: Two final plenary sessions where all attendees will attend individual presentations about the topics of “civic, public, local.” The symposium closes with a large group discussion about continuing our momentum. "Ok. What's next?"

The outcome of the symposium will be a deeper network of rhetoricians dedicated to the practice of applied rhetoric and further development of the Applied Rhetoric Collaborative organization.

FRIDAY, May 24

8:00 Breakfast and Introductions

8:45-10:00 Session Session A: The Civic Good

• Applied Rhetoric for the Civic Good: A Community-Engaged Project in Flint, Michigan (Mindy Myers)

• Must Love Dogs (and Cats and Guinea Pigs and…): A Rhetorical Analysis of Animal Rescue Documentation (Ashley Patriarca)

• Life among the Virtuous in Academic Twitter (Paula Lentz)

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:30 Session B: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine

• Preparing for Mental Health Crises Together: Structuring Equitable Deliberations in the Onondaga Community Trauma Task Force (Lenny Grant)

• Rhetoric and Aesthetics in Narrative Medicine and Health Humanities: A Course in Writing in the Health Sciences as Case Study (Jarron Slater)

• Autoagonistics: Convincing Ourselves (Brian Jackson)

11:30-1:00 Lunch on your own

1:00-2:15 Session C: Pedagogies

• Taking Veterans Research to Veterans: On Launching the Veterans’ User Guide for College (Dr. Angie Mallory)

• I Am Now a Person Who Has Run Two Different Civic Service-Learning Courses At the Same Time and Mostly Survived: Ideas and Failures (Stephen Carradini)

• If I Build It, Will They Come? Leading a Faculty Development Center (Jennifer Veltsos)

2:15-2:45 Break

2:45-4:00 Session D: Social Media Analysis

• Mining Goodreads for User (Reader) Feedback (Emily Garrett, Matt Baker, Suzy Bills)

• Making Social Listening Rhetorical: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Audience Measurement & Data Analysis (Katlynne Davis)

• Distasteful Images: Food Porn and the Visual Construction of Desire (Melanie McNaughton)

4:00-4:30 Break

4:30-5:00 Large Group Discussion: Reflection on What We're Learning and Thinking

5:30 Dinner as a group

SATURDAY, May 25

8:00 am Breakfast in the Boardroom

9:00 am Morning Exercise: Making decisions: What do you want out of Applied Rhetoric?

10:00-10:30 break

10:30-11:30 Committee Meetings

11:30-1:00 Lunch on your own

1:00-2:00 Session E: Analyzing Public Rhetorics

• Public Memory of the Holocaust: An Exploration of Pathos at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial (Sandra French)

• The Evidence Does Not Speak for Itself: The Mediating Rhetoric of the Expert Witness (Jacob Rawlins)

2:00-2:30 Break

2:30-3:30 Session F: Analyzing Public Policies

• Applied Public Rhetoric and Resultant Policy Revision: The Case of the Common Rule (Johanna Phelps)

• The Epideictic Production of Campus Free Speech: An Analysis of the Chicago Statement (Matthew R. Sharp)

3:30-4:00 break

4:00-5:00 Large Group Discussion: Ok. What's Next? (Committee Meetings Report)