[ecrea] 2nd International Rhetoric Workshop

Dear colleagues,

 We kindly invite you to submit proposals for the 2nd International 
Rhetoric Workshop: "Rhetorical Cultures: Mapping Global Publics and the 
Crossroads of Democracy."

When: July 4th-6th 2018.
Where: Ghent University – Department of Educational Studies, Ghent, Belgium.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Jessica Enoch (University of Maryland) - 
Raka Shome (National University of Singapore) - Lisa Villadsen 
(University of Copenhagen)

More information: http://www.internationalrhetoric.com
As we prepare for the 2nd Biennial International Rhetoric Workshop 
(IRW), we invite international PhD students and emerging scholars to 
come together to consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and 
established traditions of rhetorical theory and criticism inform global 
flows of meaning-making. This year's theme, "Rhetorical Cultures: 
Mapping Global Publics and the Crossroads of Democracy," encourages 
broad-based reflection, inquiry, and collaboration, taking stock of the 
emergent rhetorical practices that shape and undergird the political 
world today in all of its contingency and heterogeneity.

The IRW is an international workshop that creates space for emerging and 
early-career rhetorical scholars and critics to participate with one 
another in an informal setting that facilitates engaging discussion, 
developing scholarship, and bridging communities. The workshop theme 
allows for broad interpretation, enabling scholars to pursue pertinent 
questions related but not limited to the suggested themes below. The 
central focus on rhetorical studies establishes the common terrain upon 
which such a cross-pollination of ideas and dialogues can open unique 
insights into the challenges of democracy in a globalized world.

This year's workshop will take place at Ghent University in Belgium and 
will be organized by their Department of Educational Studies.This 
setting offers a fitting place to reflect on historical and contemporary 
questions pertaining to international currents and cross-cultural 
intersections of democratic practice and rhetorical cultures; proposals 
that speak to the conference theme are encouraged but certainly not 
required. In all, we invite you to participate in the 2nd IRW and look 
forward to reading the many exciting proposals that we hope this theme 
will inspire.

Suggested themes or guiding questions:

- How to understand geographically structured cultures of rhetorical 
practices: their regional, national, and international negotiations.
- How rhetoric can be introduced into educational settings and how 
rhetorical analysis can help inform educational research. - How 
rhetorical studies can contribute to the theoretical, critical, and 
conceptual understandings of public cultures and their formation.
- What rhetorical practices and processes confront, complicate, or help 
to sustain democratic cultures within an increasingly globalized world.
- How alternative forms of democratic practice can challenge power 
structures and build resistant movements.
- What nascent identity-positions can emerge from transnational flows of 
bodies, beliefs, and communication practices as they move across borders 
and boundaries.
- How rhetoric’s multifaceted, transnational intellectual history has 
crossed borders in its continuous engagement with democratic, 
philosophical, and aesthetic thought in and across global political 
settings.
- How ideas of race, ethnicity, and otherness are rhetorically 
constructed and deployed as a political means of securing hegemonic 
conditions or undermining democratic processes
- How colonial legacies haunt or complicate nascent rhetorical 
conceptions of global citizenship and the idea of a global community.
- How LGBTQ activists’ rhetorical practices centered on queer 
worldmaking circulates or is contested in an increasingly globalized world.
- How transnational feminisms impact and contest hegemonic practices 
within democratic spaces.
- How physical and digital spaces inform and complicate rhetorical 
practices in our public cultures.

Please submit abstracts (250 words max) to: 
(internationalrhetoricworkshop /at/ gmail.com)

Deadline for submissions: January 15th, 2018
Applicants will hear back by early March


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