I recently returned from the RSA (Rhetoric Society of America) conference in Denver. I gave two talks: one, co-authored with Nick Sciullo: “A Reconsideration of Callicles’s Arguments in the Gorgias: Was “Uncle Cal” Onto Something?” and one solo: “Bringing the Machines Closer: Richard Feynman and Metaphor.” The reception was positive, and based on the work that I did to get it into presentation-shape, I should be able to get the Feynman paper submitted somewhere in the fall.
I am not skilled at making connections at conferences, but for whatever reason, I met a lot of interesting people doing interesting work this time around, including some I’d only met over Zoom during the pandemic.