CFC: Rhetorical Landscapes in Canada: Theory, History, and Pedagogy

Editors: Jeanie Wills, John Moffatt, and Corey Owen

Extended abstracts Due August 20th, 2018
Final Manuscripts Due December 30th, 2018

Canada is host to a diverse rhetorical community meeting annually at RhetCanada. The community is comprised of international scholars from France, Belgium, the UK, and the United States. We meet annually at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences to exchange ideas, to examine public discourse in Canada and internationally, and to build a diverse and internationally flavoured rhetorical community of engaged and committed scholars.

This proposed volume arises out of the RhetCanada’s 2018 three-day program roundtables where the presenters and audience, at the end of each day, discussed rhetorical theory, history, and pedagogy in a Canadian context. We are compiling a volume of invited essays to put into print the ideas and discussions that we shared during the 2018 conference. The purpose of this project is to trace the scope of the field of rhetoric in Canada. This collection will ask authors to reflect on three themes placed in a Canadian context: rhetorical theory, history, and pedagogy.

Conference presenters from the 2018 RhetCanada are invited to submit manuscripts that examine the following themes:

What constitutes Canadian rhetoric?
How does Canadian scholarship contribute to national identity and vice versa?
What makes Canadian rhetoric distinct from rhetoric in other nations, including the U.S. and Europe?
How is a Canadian perspective on rhetorical theory, history, and pedagogy significant to the study of rhetoric in international contexts?
Why is (Canadian) rhetoric particularly relevant in the world today?
How can we use rhetoric to bridge divides in the so-called “culture wars” that are heating up in Canada and globally?
What can rhetoric teach us about public civility?
How does rhetoric help us to understand Canadian political situations, local and regional issues?
What are the opportunities for rhetorics of race and culture in Canada?
How do indigenous rhetorics influence the Canadian scene?
How does rhetoric inform Canadian teaching practices?
What are Canadian scholars contributing to rhetorical practice and theory?
How does rhetoric inform analysis and teaching about traditional media and social media platforms?
How do interdisciplinary studies rely on rhetoric?
What is Canada’s rhetorical history?
What historical artefacts contribute to the development of Canadian rhetorical practices and perspectives?

If you are an international scholar involved with RhetCanada, we ask you to consider a comparative/contrastive examination of Canadian rhetoric:

How do you see rhetorical scholarship in Canada as unique?
Why are you interested in participating in the conversation about Canadian rhetoric?
Does a Canadian context shape practices of rhetorical engagement?

Timeline

Extended abstracts of 1500 words plus bibliography are due Monday, August 20th, 2018.
You will receive notification with comments and suggestions about your manuscript by the end of September.
Final 8,000- 10,000 word Manuscripts are due Dec 30th, 2018.
Expected Publication date: Summer 2019.

Requirements

Send your extended abstract to Jeanie.wills@usask.ca.
Please use CMS style with end notes and references page.
Please remove your name or institutional identification so that your abstract can be blind peer reviewed.

June 11, 2018September 27, 2018

RhetCanada 2018 Graduate Student Prize Winner: Monique Kampherm

Grad students were out in force at this year’s annual RhetCanada meeting at Congress 2018. Members were treated to grad presentations on a wide variety of topics, including papers on the rhetorics of social media rankings, utopias and dystopias, and science advocacy on Reddit. Judging the grad student prize was particularly challenging. Four students qualified after submitting the draft and final versions by the pre-conference deadlines. The entrants were impressive, both in terms of their papers, whose subjects ranged from from Mennonite martyrology to gender-focused media analysis to the recruitment of women in Canadian mining, and in terms of the polish of their presentations, which often showed evidence of students’ previous work as professional communicators.

In the end, judges John Moffat and Bruce Dadey and advisor Tania Smith awarded this year’s prize to Monique Kampherm for her paper “Democratic Prosopopoeia: The Rhetorical Influence of Embodying a Political Statement Online.” Monique’s paper drew from a wide variety of rhetorical critics and adroitly integrated figurative analysis, digital technology studies, and political studies to examine the rhetorical effects of image filter use on social media during the 2015 Canadian election. While her paper drew on a specific case, it also spoke more generally to the rhetorical implications of how text and image are integrated on social media. Congratulations Monique, and we look forward to next year’s crop of grad student presentations in Vancouver!

May 29, 2018September 27, 2018

Rhetor 8 (2019) Call for Papers

The editor and editorial committee of Rhetor: the Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric invite submissions for its eighth volume, scheduled for 2019 publication. Rhetor is a bilingual, refereed, online journal published biennially by RhetCanada, a scholarly society dedicated to the study of rhetorical theories, practices, and history.

L’éditeur et le comité éditorial de Rhetor : Le Journal de la Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique, vous invite à soumettre vos articles pour son huitième volume, à paraître en 2019. Rhetor est un semestriel bilingue, référencé et publié par RhetCanada, une société savante dédiée à l’étude de la théorie, de la pratique et de l’histoire de la rhétorique.

CALL FOR PAPERS: RHETOR 8

May 25, 2018

Carleton writing job ad

Forwarded by Robin Norris, Chair, Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University.

The Department of English Language and Literature invites applications from qualified candidates for a one-year term appointment in first-year writing at the rank of Instructor beginning July 1, 2018.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach a 3/4 course load in first-year courses.

Position start date: July 1, 2018

Review of Applications Will Begin June 11 and Continue Until the Position is Filled.

For full details, see Carleton’s online advertisement.

May 14, 2018November 6, 2019

RhetCanada Congress 2018 Program Available

The 2018 program for RhetCanada’s annual conference is now available. The conference will take place May 27-29 during the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Regina.

RhetCanada 2018 Programme

April 11, 2018

JOB: Media Studies and Professional Communication

Red Deer College is Now Hiring a Media Studies and Professional Communication (MSPC) Instructor

(Conditional Continuous Probationary)

RDC offers students a learner-centred environment that provides practical and innovative learning experiences. The School of Arts and Sciences houses three departments: Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering, and Social Work. The School delivers a range of certificate, diploma, university transfer, and collaborative degree programs, as well as service courses to students in most other RDC programs.

The School of Arts and Sciences particularly seeks faculty members with superior preparation and ongoing engagement in their academic and professional fields, passion for teaching, and willingness to commit to making excellence in teaching their primary focus. The School builds itself around a vision of connecting innovation and tradition by fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in all activities: development and renewal of courses and programs, approaches to teaching and learning, and scholarly activity and community engagement by students and faculty.

The successful candidate will fulfill the following responsibilities:

Teach core courses in the Media Studies and Professional Communications Diploma program, RDC’s University transfer program in Communications, and fundamental courses in writing and communication for students across a range of career diploma programs
Demonstrate a commitment to professional development and scholarship
Form strong relationships with Central Alberta communications professional

For more information contact:

Dr. Jane MacNeil, Associate Dean
Phone: 403-342-3319
Email: jane.macneil@rdc.ab.ca

Required Qualifications

MA in Communications or related field (candidates with a relevant MBAwill also be considered)
Recent professional experience in areas such as public relations, marketing and branding, project management, visual/document design, or entrepreneurship
Excellent written communication skills
Proficiency with industry standard software

Preferred Qualifications

Post-secondary teaching experience

Desired Start Date: August 8, 2018
Consideration of applications begins April 27, 2018.

For more information on this position and to apply, please visit https://employment.rdc.ab.ca/ and click on Faculty & Non- Credit Instructor Opportunities.

April 2, 2018

CFP: Losing Our Words: Transformations in Language and Culture

Keynote Speaker: Jeff Chang, journalist and music critic on hip hop music and culture
Submission Deadline: May 30
Conference Dates: October 27-28, 2018
Conference Location: 235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, Canada

Please submit via our website: http://www.humber.ca/liberalarts-ifoa/call-proposals

This conference explores the relationship between language and culture and taps into the rich fields of language studies, literature, history, sociology, politics, media studies, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, with a special focus on the interrelated nature of language and culture as it changes, evolves, adapts, or indeed is endangered or lost. Our conference takes an interdisciplinary approach to this topic. We are accepting proposals from areas that will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Lost Languages
Language attrition
Language acquisition
Reclaiming language
Sociolinguistic analysis
Affect Theory and Critical Animal Studies
Forensic linguistics
Multilingualism

Metrolingualism
Multimodality
Transitivity
Cultural appropriation
Language, culture, and identity
The language and culture of traditional and new media
The Political Language of dissent, oppression, activism or diplomacy
Language and gender
Racialized Language

Language & the Arts
Body language and culture
The culture of Learning and the technology of language
The culture of economics
History of Language
Philosophy of Language
Psychology of Language and Culture
The Culture of Advertising

We welcome proposals from researchers within all relevant academic disciplines.

If accepted, the presenter(s) should prepare a 20-minute presentation each, the oral equivalent of approximately 8 to 10 pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 12pt font.

March 29, 2018

Call for Papers/Appel à contributions: Rhetor 8

La version française suit ci-dessous.

The editor and editorial committee of Rhetor: the Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric invite submissions for its eighth volume, scheduled for 2019 publication. Rhetor is a bilingual, refereed, online journal published biennially by RhetCanada, a scholarly society dedicated to the study of rhetorical theories, practices, and history.

Possible topics for the volume may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

Rhetorical Theory
Rhetorical Criticism
Classical and Historical Rhetorics
Visual, Material, and Multimodal
Rhetorics
Rhetorics of Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Age, Class, and Social Identifications
Rhetorical Pedagogy
Digital Rhetorics
Rhetoric and Popular Culture
Rhetoric and the Body

Rhetoric and Music
Professional Rhetorics
Environmental Rhetoric
Rhetoric of Animality
Rhetoric and Composition
Rhetorics of Identity
Rhetoric and Religion
Scientific Rhetoric
Rhetorics of Invention, Organization, Style, Memory, or Delivery
Rhetoric and Literature

A range of topics are welcome. Each manuscript, however, should advance or enrich a tradition of inquiry around the practice, criticism, or history of rhetoric, broadly understood. Prospective authors are advised to familiarize themselves with previous issues of Rhetor and to follow the manuscript style as posted on the Rhetor webpage. Those submitting an article for review must indicate in an accompanying cover letter that their submission has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication in another journal, book, or collection.

Authors should also include the following with their article submission: 1) an abstract between 100-150 words; 2) a list of (approximately) five key words pertinent to the manuscript; 3) a cover letter with the author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information including email address(es); and 4) a three- to four-sentence author biography statement.

Authors should not include names or identifying information in the article itself. Submissions should not exceed 6500 words and must follow the Modern Language Association’s (8th ed.) guidelines for publication.

Deadline for submissions is 1 September 2018. Anticipated publication is September 2019.

Articles (in MS Word format), cover letters, abstracts, biographical statements, and general questions can be sent electronically to Tracy Whalen, Editor, at t.whalen@uwinnipeg.ca. Rhetor welcomes articles in either English or French.

Les sujets possibles pour ce volume sont les suivants, sans s’y limiter :

La théorie rhétorique
La critique rhétorique
La rhétorique antique et l’histoire de la rhétorique
La rhétorique visuelle, matérielle et multimodale
La rhétorique des genres, de la sexualité, de la race, de l’ethnicité, des classes et identifications sociales
La pédagogie rhétorique
La rhétorique digitale
La rhétorique et le corps
Rhétorique et musique

Rhétoriques professionnelles
Rhétorique environnementale
Rhétorique de l’animalité
Rhétorique et composition
Rhétorique de l’identité
Rhétorique et religion
Rhétorique scientifique
Rhétorique de l’invention, de la disposition, du style, de la mémoire et de la performance
Rhétorique et littérature

Une variété de sujets sont les bienvenus. Le plus important est que le manuscrit enrichisse la critique rhétorique, l’histoire de la rhétorique ou permette de faire avancer sa pratique. Il est recommandé aux auteurs de se familiariser avec les volumes précédents de Rhetor et de suivre les conventions de mise en page telles qu’elles sont présentées sur le site : http://cssr-scer.ca/journal/. Les auteurs doivent par ailleurs accompagner la soumission de leur contribution d’une lettre assurant que leur manuscrit n’a pas été publié ou soumis ailleurs.

Le manuscrit soumis doit également être accompagné : 1) d’un résumé de 100-150 mots ; 2) d’une liste d’environ 5 mots-clefs ; 3) d’un mail précisant les nom, affiliation et coordonnées de l’auteur ; 4) d’une notice biographique de 3-4 lignes. Les informations sur l’auteur ne doivent pas être présentes dans l’article lui-même. Les articles soumis ne doivent pas dépasser les 6 500 mots.

Date limite de soumission : 1er septembre 2018 (pour une publication prévue en septembre 2019)

Les articles (au format MS Word), accompagnés de la déclaration d’exclusivité, du résumé et de la notice biographique doivent être envoyés à Tracy Whalen, éditrice: t.whalen@uwinnipeg.ca. Rhetor accepte les articles en Anglais ou en Français.

March 5, 2018

Rhetor 7 Now Available / Rhetor 7 est maintenant disponible

RhetCanada is delighted to announce that Rhetor 7 (2017), assembled under the able editorship of Pierre Zoberman, is now in circulation. Readers will find in this seventh issue investigations of rhetorical pedagogy, environmental rhetorics, gamification, literature, and philosophy. This bilingual assortment, the collective endeavour of scholars from North America, Africa, and Europe, speaks to the diversity of theoretical approaches and interests in contemporary rhetorical study.

As the new general editor of Rhetor, I extend my thanks first to Pierre Zoberman for his equanimity and discerning eye, to all the reviewers, the RhetCanada executive and Rhetor editorial board, and to the contributors who have made this issue the rich offering it is. Members are encouraged to preview the articles here on the RhetCanada website and visit the EBSCO database for article downloads when they are up and ready.

Stay tuned in the next months for a special issue of Rhetor and (very shortly!) a Call for Papers for Rhetor 8 (2019).

Best,

Tracy Whalen

Editor, Rhetor

La Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique/ RhetCanada a le plaisir d’annoncer que Rhetor 7 (2017), édité sous la direction de Pierre Zoberman, est maintenant disponible. Ce septième numéro réunit des explorations de pédagogie (de la) rhétorique, des rhétoriques écologiques, de la ludification, de la littérature et de la philosophie. Cette collection d’articles, fruit des réflexions de chercheur.e.s d’Amérique du Nord, d’Afrique et d’Europe, tæmoigne de la diversités des approches théoriques et des intérêts qui animent aujourd’hui les études rhétoriques.

En tant que nouvelle directrice de Rhetor, je tiens à remercier Pierre Zoberman pour son égalité d’humeur et sa sagacité, ainsi que tou.te.s les évaluateurs.trices, le bureau de la Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique et le comité de rédaction de Rhetor, et, bien sûr, les auteur.e.s qui ont fait de ce numéro l’ouvrage riche qu’il est. J’encourage les adhérents à lire les articles en avant-première ici sur notre site, et de visiter la base de données EBSCO où ils/elles pourront télécharger les textes.

Ne manquez pas dans les mois qui viennent un numéro spécial de Rhetor et (très bientôt!) un appel à contributions pour Rhetor 8 (2019).

Bien à tou.te.s

Tracy Whalen

Directrice, Rhetor