ASHR Symposium, May 26-27, 2016

ASHR Symposium, May 26-27, 2016

The American Society for the History of Rhetoric will hold its biennial symposium on Thursday, May 26 and Friday, May 27 at the Hilton Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia just prior to RSA.  The theme is "Rhetoric in situ." Attendance is free for ASHR members (memberships range from $20-$60--for membership information go to http://ashr.org/membership/join-ashr/).  More information on the symposium is available on the ASHR website (http://ashr.org/symposia/upcoming-symposium/).

The schedule is as follows:
Thursday, May 26, 2016

8:00 Coffee

8:15 Welcome Remarks, Kathleen S. Lamp, ASHR President

8:30-10:00 Session I: Composition and Context
Chair: Tara Wambach, University of Minnesota
Michele Kennerly, Penn State University, "Socrates, Ex Situ?"
Jeffry Davis, Wheaton College (IL), "The Institutio Oratoria's Composing Narrative-In Situ"
Cory Geraths, Penn State University, "Christianity In Situ: Nag Hammadi, Gnosis, and 'Heretical' Rhetoric"
James J. Murphy, University of California, Davis, "An Intercontinental Latin Rhetoric of the Sixteenth Century: The Rhetorica Christiana (1574) of Diego Valades"Katie Homar, University of Pittsburgh, "Parliamentary Orators In and Out of Situ: William Hazlitt's Eloquence of the British Senate"

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:15 Session II: Memory and Remembering
Chair: Susan Jarratt, University of California, Irvine
Jordan Loveridge, Arizona State University, "Memory, Sensation, and Civic Identity in the Stained Glass of Chartres Cathedral"
Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University, "A Rhetoric of Engaged Spectatorship at the Site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire"Courtney Rivard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Collecting Disaster in Situ: The Smithsonian's September 11th and Hurricane Katrina Disaster Archives"

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:45 Keynote I: Richard Leo Enos, Texas Christian University, "The Archaeology of Ancient Rhetoric: The six most astounding discoveries in the last 100 years!"

Introductory remarks: Robert Hariman, Northwestern University

12:45-2:15 Lunch

2:15-3:45 Session III: Places and Spaces
Chair: Brittany Knutson, University of Minnesota
Megan Eatman, Clemson University, "In This Place: Rethinking Spectacle at the Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment"
Yun Ding, Tennessee Tech University, "Return to the Scene: Rhetoric in situ as a Methodological Recommendation"
Allison M. Prasch, University of Minnesota, "(Re)(Situ)ating Rhetoric in Place"
Christopher Adamczyk, RPI, "The Rhetorical Battle for Atlanta's Past"
Special Response: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University

3:45-4:00 Break

4:00-5:15 Keynote II: Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles, "Reading Augustan Rome: Materiality as rhetoric"
Introductory remarks: Kathleen Lamp, Arizona State University

6:15-7:45 Reception-Location TBA

Friday, May 27, 2016

8:00 Coffee

8:15-9:15 Session IV: Identity and Belonging
Chair: Keith Miller, Arizona State University
Erin Chandler, University of Montevallo, "The Trope of the Southern Patriot: Establishing Anne Braden's Rhetorical Ethos as Southern Social Gospeler"
Tiffany Kinney, University of Utah, "Figuring the Materiality of Context: Tracing the Conversation between Sonia Johnson and the Mormon Church."
Heather Hayes, Whitman College, "Doing Rhetorical Studies In Situ: The 'Citizen Becoming' in Jordan"

9:15-9:30 Break

9:30-10:45 Keynote III: Dave Tell, University of Kansas, "Whose Emmett Till: Reflections on Geography, Race, and Memory"
Introductory remarks: Scott Stroud, University of Texas