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

You're Invited to a Community Service Planning Meeting

Hope everyone is well and enjoyed the break!

I wanted to make sure that everybody in KU Ars Rhetorica knows about the community service planning meeting that's currently in the works.  At the last KUAR meeting, we discussed some possible service events.  One event we discussed was hanging out for an afternoon with some kiddos who are on the waiting list for Bigs in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program; another event on the table is an hour or so of conversation with adult English Second Language learners in a program for which KUAR co-chair Rachel Bloom volunteers.

First meeting time and place

Looks like the first meeting of KU Ars Rhetorica will come directly after the next Communications colloquium, which is Wednesday 9 Feb at about 5pmish. Kundai, Rachel, and I discussed whether we wanted to intrude on the Coms students' usual post-colloquium happy hour. But the post-colloquium time seemed best because we're hoping to encourage some of the English folk to come to the colloquium first. The colloquium is in the Mallott Room of the Kansas Union, so we'll stay in the Union for the KUAR meeting (finalized room location yet to be determined since the University is on snow lock-down), and then we'll join the happy hour that's going on at the Oread at about 5:30-5:45 or so.

When we get the room location in the Union for the KUAR meeting finalized, we'll send out an official email with all the details.

So, mark your calendars! Wednesday 9 Feb @ 5ish @ Kansas Union