Updates from First Meeting

Thanks to everyone who came to our first meeting of the year! Here are some of the announcements that were made:
Wednesday, October 19th 12-1:30pm, Bailey Hall Room 409: RSA President David Zarefsky will present on the current state and future of Rhetorical Studies, Brown Bag Lunch (possible pizza...tba) and Q&A

October/November TBA: Oral History Service Event with local retirement home community, contact Joy Bancroft at joybancroft@gmail.com if you’re interested in helping out or attending

Summer 2013 RSA Institute will be here at KU. Dave Tell (KU) with Debra Hawhee (Penn State), Michael Bernard-Donals (Wisconsin), and Cara Finnegan (Illinois) are planning the program. After the new year, Dave will be assembling a team of grad students to help with this, so let him know if you’re interested (davetell@ku.edu) and look for more information on it in January.

We also discussed the following topics, so I thought I'd share to see if anyone wants to continue the conversation on here or Facebook: Where do you go to find scholarly opportunities, calls for papers/proposals, and conference information? How do we collaborate on research projects and what can KUAR do to help with that process?

The current list of places we look/subscribe to for Rhetoric-related calls include the following (The first 3 have many more links to references on the actual websites; Comment if you have more to share!):
-http://rhetoric.sdsu.edu/resources/listservs.htm
-http://www.uiowa.edu/commstud/resources/listserv.html
-http://www.kean.edu/~complink/collegecompproflinks.html
-Critnet (specifically suggested to do an email filter for Conferences and calls)
-H-net (Humanities list), H-rhetor, H-digirhet
-RSA Student Blogora (TX)

Have a great week, everyone!
Rachel
KUAR Chair

First Meeting

KU Ars Rhetorica will have our first meeting of the year tomorrow, Tuesday, September 13th at 3:00pm at the Oread restaurant (1st floor). We will talk about upcoming events, proposal deadlines, and other announcements as well as spend some time getting to know each other. Please join us to hear about what's coming up for KUAR and meet new rhetoricians on campus!

If you cannot attend but would like your email address added to our new listserv (this is different from last year, so be sure to let us know if you want to be on our list this year!) please email Rachel at rmbloom@ku.edu which email address you would like added.

We hope to see many of you there and we're looking forward to a great year ahead of us!