KU Ars Rhetorica Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
4:00-5:00PM, Bird Dog Bar @ The Oread Hotel
Meeting start: 4:15PM
Our meeting began with KUAR Chair Evan Center,
initiating round-table introductions. We were delighted to see new faces
from both the COMS and ENGL departments.
We then discussed upcoming conferences and deadlines
for submitting to conferences. 4Cs is in March next year, and deadlines
have passed, but the NCA and CSCA are upcoming, and everyone still has
the opportunity to submit to CSCA seeing as the deadline is within the
next couple of weeks.
Also, some of our new members announced CFPs from
the Pop Culture association - so members may want to look into that
opportunity.
Our yearly goals are many. On the forefront of
our list is to host social and scholarly events. Our first social is
scheduled for Sept. 28 (event details TBA), and we would love suggestions
for scholarly events. Currently, ideas are circulating for an academic
paper workshop, involving KUAR members and COMS and ENGL faculty. Other
ideas would be gladly accepted, as well.
One of our more pressing goals is to bring a guest
speaker or two to campus. We passed around a list of speaker nominations
at the meeting. Contact KUAR Co-Chair Jennifer Nish or Treasurer Chelsea
Graham if you would like to weigh-in on the vote or if you have a suggestion
for a speaker you'd like to see visit KU.
KUAR will be applying for two grants this year
to help see some of these plans to fruition.
Further, KUAR would like to plan a service project
within the year (more than likely Spring). We had discussed perhaps
a collaboration with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, but we are open to suggestions.
KU will be host to the RSI (Rhetoric Society of
America Institute) in June 2013, and there will be plenty of opportunity
for KUAR to have a presence. We strongly urge all who are interested
to apply to be a part of the conference. As the institute is hosted
at KU, and KUAR members are all graduate students, we can receive a
discount for the conference registration fees. A list of visiting scholars
is available online at this address: http://associationdatabase.
KUAR wants to emphasize campus expansion. Rhetoric
is a highly interdisciplinary subject, so spreading the word to departments
cross campus is essential. We want people to get involved and to know
about our group so that we can usher in new event ideas and create opportunities
for individual and group involvement.
If anyone has any suggestions for or would like
to actively rally for KUAR funding, please contact KUAR Chair Evan Center
or Treasurer Chelsea Graham.
Meeting end: 5:00PM
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