[ecrea] Crossing Traditions: Reimagining the Political - International Rhetoric Workshop

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UPDATE: Deadline Extended to 15 April 2016

*“Crossing Traditions: Reimagining the Political”*
*International Rhetoric Workshop*
*Uppsala University, Sweden*
*17-19 August 2016*

The International Rhetoric Workshop (IRW) invites PhD students and
emerging scholars to participate in developing the study of political
rhetoric and its theoretical traditions. At beautiful Uppsala
University, Sweden, we will meet in the last days of summer to advance
rhetorical scholarship on “Crossing Traditions: Reimagining the Political”.

In an informal setting with a focus on engaging discussion, developing
scholarship, and extending community, IRW welcomes everyone interested
in rhetoric’s relation to politics, theory, history, power or its
formative concepts to join us. The workshop theme addresses questions of
how various traditions of rhetorical theory meet and merge within global
rhetorical practices, and how these crossings can change and develop the
concept of the political.

Contemporary rhetorical studies include the study and criticism of
contemporary persuasive practices, theoretical discussions on the
conditions for communal meaning-making, and historical studies of
rhetorical practices and rhetorical thinking in different times and
places. The emphasis rhetorical studies places on cross-fertilization
between these different forms of inquiry opens opportunities to take on
the challenges posed by contemporary politics.

*Suggested themes or questions to be furthered at the workshop:*

  * How to understand geographically structured traditions of rhetorical
    practices: their local, regional, and national negotiations.
  * What happens when these traditions crosses boundaries: how they are
    compared, merged or intersected with other specific practices globally.
  * How political and rhetorical theories change and merge across
    academic traditions.
  * Theoretical or conceptual contributions to the rhetorical conditions
    of possibility for the political to emerge.
  * Politics and its relations to established power structures and
    resistance movements.
  * How rhetoric’s multifaceted, transnational intellectual history has
    crossed borders: its ancient heritage, its Arabic-European
    transformations, its mutation into post-colonial settings across the
    world and various histories of thought.
  * How rhetoric’s continuous engagement with political, philosophical,
    and aesthetic thought is played out in global political settings.

*Format and participants*

The format consists of a three-day workshop at Uppsala. The core
activities are breakout sessions in which workshop participants review
and discuss work-in-progress of their ongoing research with faculty. In
addition, each day will open with a keynote address and conclude with
faculty discussion panels on topics relevant to the theme and the
participants’ research interests.

IRW will include three keynote addresses from internationally recognized
scholars working at the intersection of rhetorical and political
thought: Debra Hawhee (Penn State University, USA), Kari Palonen
(University of Jyväskylä, Finland), and Philippe-Joseph Salazar
(University of Cape Town, South Africa).

Papers will be pre-circulated to a small group of about 5-6 workshop
participants and one member of the invited faculty and everybody is
expected to come with suggestions and offer comments on each other’s work.

IRW will also have panel sessions, led by the invited faculty, on
methodological and theoretical topics relating to the theme and
participant’s research interests (more on that as soon as we have all
applications!). The invited faculty consists of: Mats Rosengren (Uppsala
University, Sweden), María Alejandra Vitale (University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina), Jiyeon Kang (University of Iowa, USA), Jairos Kangira
(University of Namibia), Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University, USA),
Anne Ulrich (University of Tübingen, Germany), Alan Finlayson
(University of East Anglia, UK) and our three keynote speakers. They
work in the fields of postcolonial intellectual history, securitization,
neo-liberal forms of governmentality, the changing forms of protest
movements, the challenge of the political to continental thought, and
national political rhetoric at the intersection of geopolitical
rhetorical practices.

Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and submitted through the
form below. Abstract submission is open to PhD students and emerging
scholars who have received their PhD no earlier than January 2012.

*Deadline for abstract: 15 April 2016. (23.59 GMT)*

To submit your abstract, please follow this link to the submission form
<https://uppsalau.conference-services.net/authorlogin.asp?conferenceID=5042&language=en-uk>.

Letters of acceptance will be sent no later than 30 April 2016. Please
note that if an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft
paper of your work-in-progress should be submitted by 30 June 2016.
Final papers should be 3000-6000 words in length, excluding notes and
references.

Registration fee (includes participation in the workshop with
pre-circulated paper, one informal dinner, as well as breakfast and
lunch for three days): 100 EUR

The Planning Committee understands that the financial burden for
attending a workshop can be heavy for young scholars, and we have made
every effort to make IRW a low-cost event. It means that besides having
a low registration fee, we include most of the food throughout the three
days. If you are in need of support to participate in the workshop and
cannot acquire this from your home university, please contact the
planning committee to discuss options. We are also happy to provide
practical suggestions on how to keep the costs down when in Uppsala!

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